1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; appropriating money for lab addition to the 
1.3 	University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory building, St. Paul 
1.4 	campus; 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 	$2,150,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the Board of Regents 
1.8 	of the University of Minnesota to design, construct, and furnish a biosafety level 3 
1.9 	necropsy laboratory addition to the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory building on the 
1.10 	St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota to protect students, employees, and the 
1.11 	environment from avian influenza ("bird flu"), bovine tuberculosis, and other zoonotic and 
1.12 	foreign animal diseases.

1.13 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 1.14 	To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the bond proceeds fund, 
1.15 	the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to 
1.16 	$2,150,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
1.17 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, 
1.18 	sections 4 to 7.

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