1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to governmental operations; providing for
1.3 	local planning assistance by certain regional
1.4 	organizations; appropriating money; amending Minnesota
1.5 	Statutes 2004, section 462.39, by adding a subdivision.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 462.39, is
1.8 	amended by adding a subdivision to read:
1.9 		Subd. 5.Local planning assistance. (a) Regional
1.10 	development commissions or, in regions not served by regional
1.11 	development commissions, regional organizations selected by the
1.12 	commissioner of the Department of Administration, may develop
1.13 	programs to support planning work on behalf of local units of
1.14 	government.
1.15 	(b) The local planning work must include work described in
1.16 	at least one of the clauses of this paragraph:
1.17 	(1) development of local zoning ordinances;
1.18 	(2) land use plans;
1.19 	(3) community or economic development plans;
1.20 	(4) transportation and transit plans;
1.21 	(5) solid waste management plans;
1.22 	(6) wastewater management plans;
1.23 	(7) workforce development plans;
1.24 	(8) housing development plans and market analyses;
1.25 	(9) rural health service and senior nutrition plans;
2.1 	(10) natural resources management plans;
2.2 	(11) development of a geographical information systems
2.3 	database to serve a region's needs, including hardware and
2.4 	software purchases and related labor costs; or 
2.5 	(12) plans and ordinances for siting of livestock
2.6 	operations.

2.7 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 2.8 	(a) $600,000 in fiscal year 2006 and $600,000 in fiscal
2.9 	year 2007 are appropriated from the general fund to the
2.10 	commissioner of administration.
2.11 	(b) The appropriation in paragraph (a) is for grants of
2.12 	$50,000 each year to regional development commissions or, in
2.13 	regions not served by regional development commissions, to
2.14 	regional organizations selected by the commissioner of the
2.15 	Department of Administration, to support planning work on behalf
2.16 	of local units of government under section 1.
2.17 	(c) State grants under paragraph (b) are not available
2.18 	until matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis from nonstate funds.