1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to employment and economic development; changing membership of the 
1.3 	Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board; amending Minnesota Statutes 
1.4 	2006, section 298.22, subdivision 2.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 298.22, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.7 		Subd. 2.Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board. There is hereby 
1.8 	created the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board, consisting of ~~13~~ ten members, 
1.9 	five of whom are state senators appointed by the Subcommittee on Committees of the 
1.10 	Rules Committee of the senate, and five of whom are representatives, appointed by the 
1.11 	speaker of the house of representatives. ~~The remaining members shall be appointed one~~ 
1.12 	~~each by the senate majority leader, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the~~ 
1.13 	~~governor and must be nonlegislators who reside in a taconite assistance area as defined in~~ 
1.14 	~~section 273.1341.~~ The members shall be appointed in January of every odd-numbered 
1.15 	year~~, except that the initial nonlegislator members shall be appointed by July 1, 1999,~~ and 
1.16 	shall serve until January of the next odd-numbered year. Vacancies on the board shall be 
1.17 	filled in the same manner as the original members were chosen. At least a majority of 
1.18 	the ~~legislative~~ members of the board shall be elected from state senatorial or legislative 
1.19 	districts in which over 50 percent of the residents reside within a taconite assistance area 
1.20 	as defined in section 273.1341. All expenditures and projects made by the commissioner 
1.21 	of Iron Range resources and rehabilitation shall be consistent with the priorities 
1.22 	established in subdivision 8 and shall first be submitted to the Iron Range Resources and 
1.23 	Rehabilitation Board for approval by a majority of the board of expenditures and projects 
1.24 	for rehabilitation purposes as provided by this section, and the method, manner, and time 
2.1 	of payment of all funds proposed to be disbursed shall be first approved or disapproved by 
2.2 	the board. The board shall biennially make its report to the governor and the legislature on 
2.3 	or before November 15 of each even-numbered year. The expenses of the board shall be 
2.4 	paid by the state from the funds raised pursuant to this section. 

2.5 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective January 2, 2009.