1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; appropriating money for the Minnesota 
1.3 	Children's Museum; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.6 	$12,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the commissioner of 
1.7 	employment and economic development for a grant to the city of St. Paul to design, 
1.8 	construct, furnish, and equip an expansion and renovation of the Minnesota Children's 
1.9 	Museum, subject to Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.695. The expansion and exhibit 
1.10 	upgrades should incorporate the latest research on early learning, allow for new 
1.11 	state-of-the art education facilities for Minnesota's early childhood educators, and increase 
1.12 	the capacity of visitors to galleries and programming areas.
1.13 	This appropriation is not available until the commissioner has determined that at 
1.14 	least an equal amount has been committed from nonstate sources.

1.15 	Sec. 2. BOND AUTHORIZATION.
 1.16 	To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the bond proceeds fund, the 
1.17 	commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an 
1.18 	amount up to $12,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by 
1.19 	Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, 
1.20 	article XI, sections 4 to 7.

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