1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to broadband; modifying the border-to-border broadband grant program; 
1.3 	appropriating money;amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 116J.395, 
1.4 	subdivision 7.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 116J.395, subdivision 7, is amended to read:
1.7 		Subd. 7.Limitation. (a) No grant awarded under this section may fund more than 50 
1.8 	percent of the total cost of a project.
1.9 	(b) Grants awarded to a single project under this section must not exceed $5,000,000
1.10 	$10,000,000.

1.11 	Sec. 2. BROADBAND GRANT PROGRAM; APPROPRIATION.
 1.12 	$138,000,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $138,000,000 in fiscal year 2025 are appropriated 
1.13 	from the general fund to the commissioner of employment and economic development for 
1.14 	deposit in the border-to-border broadband fund account established in Minnesota Statutes, 
1.15 	section 116J.396, subdivision 1, for the purposes specified in Minnesota Statutes, section 
1.16 	116J.396, subdivision 2.