1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; appropriating money to the Metropolitan 
1.3 	Council for regional park and open-space land acquisition and improvements; 
1.4 	authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.7 	$10,500,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the Metropolitan Council 
1.8 	for the cost of improvements and betterments of a capital nature and acquisition by the 
1.9 	council and local government units of regional recreational open-space lands in accordance 
1.10 	with the council's policy plan as provided in Minnesota Statutes, section 473.147.

1.11 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 1.12 	To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the bond proceeds fund, the 
1.13 	commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an 
1.14 	amount up to $10,500,000, in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed 
1.15 	by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, 
1.16 	article XI, sections 4 to 7.

1.17 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 1.18 	Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final enactment.