1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to legislative enactments; providing for the expiration of policy provisions 
1.3 	in appropriation bills;amending Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 16A.28, 
1.4 	subdivision 3.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 16A.28, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
1.7 		Subd. 3.Lapse; expiration. (a) Any portion of any appropriation not carried forward 
1.8 	and remaining unexpended and unencumbered at the close of a fiscal year lapses to the fund 
1.9 	from which it was originally appropriated. ~~Except as provided in section 15.76,~~ Any 
1.10 	appropriation amounts not carried forward and remaining unexpended and unencumbered 
1.11 	at the close of a biennium lapse to the fund from which the appropriation was made.
1.12 	(b) No provision of an appropriation bill that funds multiple departments and agencies 
1.13 	may permanently add to or modify the statutory law of Minnesota Statutes. Any provision 
1.14 	of an appropriation bill that purports to do so expires at the end of the fiscal biennium in 
1.15 	which it is enacted.

1.16 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2019, and applies to appropriation 
1.17 	bills enacted on or after that date.