1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to education; modifying the cooperative 
  1.3             secondary facilities program; authorizing a 
  1.4             cooperative secondary facilities grant; authorizing 
  1.5             the sale of bonds; appropriating money; amending 
  1.6             Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 124.493, by adding a 
  1.7             subdivision. 
  1.8   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.9      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 124.493, is 
  1.10  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
  1.11     Subd. 4.  [CONSOLIDATION.] As an alternative to proceeding 
  1.12  through the cooperating and combination process established in 
  1.13  subdivision 3, a group of districts that receives a cooperative 
  1.14  secondary facility grant after May 1, 1991, may initiate 
  1.15  consolidation proceedings under section 122.23 no later than 
  1.16  four years after a grant is awarded under subdivision 1. 
  1.17     Sec. 2.  [COOPERATIVE SECONDARY FACILITY GRANT.] 
  1.18     Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 124.491 to 
  1.19  124.494, the commissioner of education shall award a cooperative 
  1.20  secondary facilities grant of $5,000,000 according to Minnesota 
  1.21  Statutes, section 124.493, subdivision 1, and a grant of 
  1.22  $1,000,000 according to Minnesota Statutes, section 124.494, 
  1.23  subdivision 4a, to a group of school districts consisting of 
  1.24  independent school district Nos. 325, Lakefield; 328, Sioux 
  1.25  Valley; 330, Heron Lake-Okabena; 513, Brewster; and 516, Round 
  1.26  Lake.  The group of districts must enter into a joint powers 
  2.1   agreement and must comply with Minnesota Statutes, section 
  2.2   124.494, subdivision 6. 
  2.3      Sec. 3.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  2.4      $6,000,000 is appropriated from the state bond fund to the 
  2.5   commissioner of education to acquire or better public lands and 
  2.6   buildings and to make other improvements of a capital nature as 
  2.7   specified in section 2. 
  2.8      Sec. 4.  [BOND SALE AUTHORIZATION.] 
  2.9      To provide the money appropriated in section 3 from the 
  2.10  bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance, upon request of 
  2.11  the governor, shall sell and issue bonds of the state in the 
  2.12  amount up to $6,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with 
  2.13  the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 
  2.14  16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 
  2.15  4 to 7. 
  2.16     Sec. 5.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.17     Sections 1 to 4 are effective the day following final 
  2.18  enactment.