1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; authorizing the
1.3 	issuance of state bonds; appropriating money for grave
1.4 	markers or memorial monuments for unmarked graves of
1.5 	deceased residents of state hospitals or regional
1.6 	treatment centers.
1.7 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.8 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.9 	$2,500,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to
1.10 	the commissioner of human services for grants to cities, towns,
1.11 	and counties for grave markers or memorial monuments for
1.12 	unmarked graves at the cemeteries of former or current state
1.13 	hospitals or regional treatment centers.
1.14 	The grants are to purchase and place individual cemetery
1.15 	grave markers, or memorial monuments when burial locations are
1.16 	unknown, that include the available names of individuals, at the
1.17 	cemeteries of former or current regional treatment centers or
1.18 	state hospitals and within the boundaries of the city, county,
1.19 	or town awarded the grant.  An individual monument must not be
1.20 	placed if the family of the deceased resident objects to the
1.21 	placement of the monument.  A grantee must consult with members
1.22 	of local service or charitable organizations, members of the
1.23 	local business community, persons with mental illness or
1.24 	developmental disabilities or their representatives; and, to the
1.25 	extent possible, with former residents of the regional treatment
1.26 	center or state hospital, family members of deceased residents
2.1 	of the regional treatment center or state hospital, and current
2.2 	or former employees of the regional treatment center or state
2.3 	hospital.

2.4 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 2.5 	To provide the money appropriated in this act from the bond
2.6 	proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue
2.7 	bonds of the state in an amount up to $2,500,000 in the manner,
2.8 	upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota
2.9 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota
2.10 	Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

2.11 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.12 	Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final
2.13 	enactment.