A bill for an act 
                  relating to reliever airports; requiring the 
                  metropolitan airports commission to provide equivalent 
                  funding for all Federal Aviation Administration 
                  designated reliever airports; amending Minnesota 
                  Statutes 2000, section 473.608, by adding a 
                  subdivision. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 473.608, is 
        amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
           Subd. 27a.  [FUNDING RELIEVER AIRPORTS.] The commission 
        shall provide funding on an annual basis to a 
        non-commission-owned airport that is designated by the Federal 
        Aviation Administration as a reliever airport for the 
        Minneapolis-St.Paul International Airport.  The funding must be 
        equivalent to the amount of funding that the reliever airport 
        would have received from the commission to subsidize the 
        airport's operations and maintenance if the reliever airport had 
        been owned by the commission. 
           Sec. 2.  [APPLICATION.] 
           Section 1 applies in the counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, 
        Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington.