1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to taxation; providing that certain money in 
  1.3             the tax increment financing grant fund will be 
  1.4             transferred to the Minnesota housing finance agency 
  1.5             for use in the economic development and housing 
  1.6             challenge program; appropriating money; amending 
  1.7             Minnesota Statutes 2001 Supplement, section 469.1799, 
  1.8             subdivision 3. 
  1.9   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.10     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2001 Supplement, section 
  1.11  469.1799, subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
  1.12     Subd. 3.  [APPROPRIATION.] $91,000,000 in fiscal year 2002, 
  1.13  and $38,000,000 in each fiscal year thereafter is appropriated 
  1.14  to the commissioner of revenue from the general fund to make 
  1.15  grants under this section.  Except as provided in section 2, the 
  1.16  appropriated amounts do not lapse at the end of a fiscal year~~.~~, 
  1.17  and each amount is available until the later of when expended or 
  1.18  when this section is repealed.  If the amount of grant 
  1.19  entitlements under subdivision 1 for a year exceeds the amount 
  1.20  available for grants, the commissioner of revenue shall reduce 
  1.21  each grant proportionately so the total does not exceed the 
  1.22  amount available. 
  1.23     Sec. 2.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  1.24     In fiscal year 2003 and each fiscal year thereafter, 
  1.25  $....... of the unused money remaining from the amounts 
  1.26  appropriated under Minnesota Statutes 2001 Supplement, section 
  1.27  469.1799, subdivision 3, is appropriated to the Minnesota 
  2.1   housing finance agency to be used to provide funding for the 
  2.2   economic development and housing challenge program under 
  2.3   Minnesota Statutes 2001 Supplement, section 462A.33.  As used in 
  2.4   this section, "unused money" is the appropriation under 
  2.5   Minnesota Statutes 2001 Supplement, section 469.1799, 
  2.6   subdivision 3, for the preceding fiscal year that has not been 
  2.7   distributed as grants under that section by the last day of the 
  2.8   fiscal year in which it was appropriated.