1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to state government; establishing provisions for rental rates in 
1.3 	state-owned historic buildings; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota 
1.4 	Statutes, chapter 16B.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. [16B.242] RENT FOR HISTORIC BUILDINGS.
1.7 		Subdivision 1.Register of state-owned historic buildings.  The commissioner of 
1.8 	administration must maintain a register of state-owned buildings that the commissioner 
1.9 	determines have historic or architectural significance.  A state-owned building must be 
1.10 	included on this register if the building is listed on the National Register of Historic 
1.11 	Places, is designated by a state or county historical society or by a municipal preservation 
1.12 	commission, or if the commissioner otherwise determines that the building has historic or 
1.13 	architectural significance.
1.14 		Subd. 2. Rent attributable to historic characteristics.  For each state-owned 
1.15 	building on the register maintained under subdivision 1, the commissioner must determine 
1.16 	what portion of the rent established for that building is attributable to the historic or 
1.17 	architectural features of the building.  In making this determination, the commissioner 
1.18 	must consider the incremental cost of operating, maintaining, altering, and adding related 
1.19 	new construction to the building due to its historic or architectural features.
1.20 		Subd. 3. Report; request for funding.  By January 15 each odd-numbered year, 
1.21 	the commissioner must report to the commissioner of finance and to the chairs of the 
1.22 	house ways and means and senate finance committees on the projected incremental costs 
1.23 	for each building determined under subdivision 2 for the biennium beginning July 1 of 
1.24 	that year.  The detailed budget that the governor submits to the legislature that year must 
2.1 	include the total costs, for all state-owned buildings on the register maintained under this 
2.2 	section, of the rent increment attributable to historic or architectural features.
2.3 		Subd. 4. Effect of appropriation.  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the 
2.4 	commissioner must exclude from rent charged to state agencies, costs paid for by a 
2.5 	direct legislative appropriation of money made to pay for costs associated with historical 
2.6 	or architectural features of state-owned buildings.  The commissioner of finance must 
2.7 	establish procedures to allocate a direct legislative appropriation made for this purpose 
2.8 	to bond and asset preservation accounts.