1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to state government; requiring the Legislative Advisory Commission to 
1.3 	approve a beneficiary mitigation plan or amendment before the Pollution Control 
1.4 	Agency submits the plan or amendment to the Volkswagen Settlement trustee.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. LEGISLATIVE ADVISORY COMMISSION MUST APPROVE 
1.7 	BENEFICIARY MITIGATION PLANS AND AMENDMENTS.
 1.8 	The Pollution Control Agency shall not submit to the trustee any beneficiary mitigation 
1.9 	plan, or any amendment to a plan, until the Pollution Control Agency has submitted the 
1.10 	plan or amendment to the Legislative Advisory Commission and the commission has 
1.11 	affirmatively approved the plan or amendment. The Legislative Advisory Commission shall 
1.12 	approve a plan or amendment only if it finds that the plan or amendment is in the best 
1.13 	interests of the people of Minnesota and conforms to the requirements of the Volkswagen 
1.14 	Settlement. For purposes of this section, the term "trustee" means the trustee appointed to 
1.15 	administer the Environmental Mitigation Trust Agreement for State Beneficiaries described 
1.16 	in Attachment A to the United States' Notice of Filing of Trust Agreements in the case of 
1.17 	United States v. Volkswagen AG et al., Case No. 16-cv-295 (N.D. Cal.).

1.18 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.