Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF2538

1E Relating to capital investments; authorizing spending to acquire and better
public land and buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature with
certain conditions; providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money
to the university of Minnesota for higher education asset preservation and
replacement (HEAPRA), a new Twin Cities campus science teaching and student
services building, a new St. Paul campus Bell museum of natural history, an
addition to Duluth campus Voss-Kovach hall, Morris campus community services
building renovation, a new Crookston campus maintenance facility at the
Northwest research and outreach center, classroom disability access, laboratory
renovation, specifying a projects costs coverage allotment limit for except
HEAPRA and dedicating unspent appropriations to HEAPRA, to the Minnesota state
colleges and universities (MnSCU) for higher education asset preservation and
replacement (HEAPRA), the Alexandria technical college law enforcement center,
Anoka Ramsey community college in Coon Rapids classrooms and laboratories and
fine arts classroom and laboratory building, Bemidji state university Sattgast
science building addition and renovation, Century college classroom and student
support space renovation, Dakota county technical college transportation and
emerging technologies labs, Hennepin technical college science addition and
library and student service design, Inver Hills community college classroom
addition and renovation, Lake Superior community and technical college health
and science center addition, Mesabi Range community and technical college in
Eveleth carpentry and industrial mechanical technology and shops, Metropolitan
state university smart classroom center and law enforcement training center,
Minneapolis community and technical college workforce program space, Mankato
state university Trafton science center renovation, Moorhead state university
Lommen hall renovation and Livingston Lord library, Worthington west community
and technical college fieldhouse renovation, Moorhead community and technology
college trade addition and library design, Normandale community college
classroom addition and renovation, North Hennepin community college center for
business and technology and science, technology, engineering and math
facilities, Northland community and technical college in East Grand Forks
nursing, health care and learning resources center, Owatonna college and
university center property acquisition, Ridgewater College-Willmar technical
instruction and design construction, Rochester community and technical college
workforce center collocation, Faribault south central college in classroom
renovation and addition, St. Cloud state university Brown science hall
renovation and science and engineering lab, St. Cloud technical college allied
health center renovation, St. Paul college transportation and applied technology
laboratories and shops, southwest Minnesota state university science and hotel
and restaurant laboratories, Winona state university Memorial hall and for
system wide science laboratory and classroom renovation, property acquisition
and debt service, and Anoka technical college for the Anoka-Hennepin school
district partnership, to the department of education for independent school
district #11, Anoka-Hennepin land acquisition, independent school district #38,
Red Lake capital loan, independent school district #279, Osseo Northwest
Hennepin family center and library improvement grants, to the Minnesota state
academies for asset preservation and Frechette memorial hall renovation, to the
Perpich center for arts education for asset preservation, master plan update and
predesign, delta dorm window project and storage building, to the department of
natural resources (DNR) for statewide asset preservation, flood hazard
mitigation grants for various projects, Crookston ice arena, the Red river
digital elevation model, ground water monitoring and observation wells, dam
renovation and removal, water control structures, Mississippi river aquatic
invasive species barrier, stream protection and restoration, lake Zumbro
restoration, water acquisition, betterment and fishing piers, fish hatchery
improvements, Rim-Wildlife area land acquisition and improvement, RIM critical
habitat match, native prairie conservation and protection, scientific and
natural area acquisition and development, state forest land reforestation,
forest roads and bridges, diseased shade tree removal and replacement, state
park and recreation area acquisition and development, regional and local park
grants, state trail acquisition and development, regional trails, trail
connections and the wildlife rehabilitation center, dedicating unspent
appropriations to asset preservation, to the pollution control agency (PCA) for
the Albert Lea landfill, closed landfill cleanup revenue bonds, and beneficial
reuse of wastewater grant program, to the board of water and soil resources
(BWSR) for RIM conservation reserve, wetland replacement due to public road
projects, RIM clean energy conservation easements, grass lake prairie wetlands
and lake Titlow watershed improvements, to the commissioner of administration
for the roof replacement of a certain potato inspection building, to the
Minnesota zoological garden for capital asset preservation improvements and
betterments, to the department of administration for capital asset preservation
and replacement account (CAPRA), property acquisition, state capitol building
restoration and predesign of the state emergency operations center and
department of public safety/department of corrections building, to the amateur
sports commission for the Blaine national sports center, the Rochester national
volleyball center, the Arden Hills metro north regional sports center, the
Moorhead northwestern Minnesota regional sports center, the St. Paul regional
amateur sports facility and the Marshall southwest regional amateur sports
center, to the department of military affairs for asset preservation, facility
life safety improvements, facility Americans with disabilities (ADA) compliance
and dedicating unspent appropriations to discretionary purposes, to the
department of public safety for the Anoka county forensic crime laboratory, the
camp Ripley training and exercising center, the Gonvick public safety training
center, the Minnesota emergency response and industry training center in
Marshall, the Nassau public safety facility, the Scott county public safety
training center and the southeastern Minnesota regional public safety training
center, to the department of transportation (DOT) for local bridge replacement
and rehabilitation, the urban partnership agreement and for federal grant
implementation, greater Minnesota transit, rail service improvement including
the Minnesota valley railroad track rehabilitation, the Northshore express, the
St. Paul to Chicago high speed rail line and the southeast express, port
development assistance and the St. Cloud regional airport, to the metropolitan
council for the urban partnership agreement, Bottineau boulevard transit way,
Cedar avenue bus rapid transit, central corridor transit way, I-94 corridor
transit way, I-494 corridor transit way, Red Rock corridor transit way, Robert
street corridor transit way, Rush line corridor transit way, southwest corridor
transit way and union depot, to the metropolitan regional parks for metropolitan
council priorities, Cedar avenue bridge, Dakota county north urban regional
trail, Como zoo gorilla and polar bear exhibits, Coon Rapids 85th avenue bicycle
trail, Dakota county north urban regional trail, Father Hennepin regional park,
Heritage Village park, Grand Rounds bridge, Grand Rounds lightning, Grand Rounds
roadways, Lower Afton road trail, Minnehaha creek, national great river
park-upper landing shoreline protection, Rice creek north regional trail,
Springbrook nature center and Tamarack nature center, to the department of human
services (DHS) for asset preservation, systemwide campus redevelopment, reuse or
demolition, early childhood learning and child protection facilities, a west
central multicounty secured treatment facility, the Ah Gwah Ching regional
treatment center, and the remembering with dignity program to the commissioner
of administration for veterans homes asset preservation, Fergus falls veterans
home, and the Minneapolis veterans home campus for building demolition and HVAC
replacement, Silver Bay campus master plan renovation, veterans memorial in Eden
Prairie, an all veterans memorial in Richfield, and a veterans memorial in
Virginia to the department of corrections for asset preservation, and the
Faribault correctional facility for expansion phase 3, to the department of
employment and economic development (DEED) for the greater Minnesota business
development infrastructure grant program, bioscience business development public
infrastructure grant program, redevelopment account, Bemidji regional event
center, Chisholm sewer and water, Duluth DECC arena, Hibbing memorial building,
Itasca county steel plant infrastructure, Mankato theater and hockey center,
Minneapolis orchestra hall, Rochester Mayo civic center complex, St. Cloud state
university national hockey center, St. Paul Asian Pacific cultural center,
Gillette children's specialty healthcare, to the public facilities authority for
a federal grant state match, upper Sioux community water system, wastewater
infrastructure funding program, total maximum daily load (TMDL) grants, small
community wastewater grants, streamlined infrastructure financing and the
Bayport storm sewer, to the Minnesota housing finance agency for publicly owned
emergency shelters, temporary or transitional housing and permanent rental
housing, Minnesota historical society historic sites asset preservation,
historic Fort Snelling museum and visitor center, county and local preservation
grants, Kelly farm renovation and heritage trails, to the commissioner of
finance for bond sale expenses, requiring the commissioner of finance to
schedule the sale of state general obligation bonds, placing a restriction on
general obligation bond sales during a biennium, authorizing the sale of state
bonds from the bond proceeds fund, maximum effort school loan fund and the
transportation fund bond proceeds account, specifying limits; requiring
department of administration building design guidelines for major renovations by
a certain date and requiring commissioner and department of commerce review;
permitting PCA remediation fund general portion use for debt service payments on
certain revenue bonds, requiring revenue bonds sales money to be deposited in
the remediation fund general portion; requiring the commissioner of finance upon
PCA request to sell and issue state revenue bonds for closed landfill cleanup,
specifying debt service revenue sources, permitting refunding bonds, bonds not
be a general or public debt, permitting trustee and providing for pledge,
purchase, cancellation and impairment of contracts; instructing the pollution
control agency to make grant awards to political subdivisions for design and
implementation of projects that demonstrate the beneficial use of wastewater;
increasing commissioner of education early childhood learning and child
protection facilities grants limits, requiring a match and specifying grant
priority; designating Owatonna community college as a MnSCU member and
permitting improvements to be declared as MnSCU surplus, increasing the
threshold for project costs requiring legislative notification, permitting
unspent appropriation spending for higher education asset preservation and
replacement and requiring legislative reporting, increasing the revenue bond
limit; establishing and providing for a university of Minnesota biomedical
science research funding program, specifying conditions for payments to the
university, appropriating money from the general fund to the commissioner of
finance for transfer to the board of regents; authorizing the housing finance
agency (HFA) to establish a nonprofit housing bond account within the housing
development fund and providing for nonprofit housing bonds HFA issuance and
authorizing a standing appropriation; decreasing the wastewater infrastructure
funding program appropriation and removing the Larsmont Knife river-Larsmont
sanitary district grant, extending a current appropriation to the city of
Bayport for the Middle St. Croix river watershed management organization for
sewer system completion; adding Roseau as an eligible flood hazard mitigation
grant recipient; modifying the Two Harbors harbor of refuge and marina project
by permitting a certain amount of funding for design completion, expanding water
control structures appropriation use for public water reserves; allowing
snowmobile and all-terrain vehicle (ATV) trail grant money to be counted as part
of the county nonstate match requirement; modifying prior appropriations for the
northeast Minnesota rail initiative to be for the heritage and arts center and
passenger rail service for the St. Louis and Lake county regional rail
authority, Dakota county Empire wetlands to be for Vermillion Highlands research
recreation and wildlife management area, the city of Winona for a multipurpose
events center and arena, Fort Snelling to include the visitor center and other
site improvements; exempting the Worthington Campbell soup factory remediation
cleanup effort from certain DEED requirements
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