1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to taxation; modifying the levy authority of the Cook-Orr Hospital 
1.3 	District;amending Laws 1988, chapter 645, section 3, as amended.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. Laws 1988, chapter 645, section 3, as amended by Laws 1999, chapter 243, 
1.6 	article 6, section 9, and Laws 2000, chapter 490, article 6, section 15, is amended to read:
1.7 	Sec. 3. TAX; PAYMENT OF EXPENSES.
 1.8 	(a) The tax levied by the hospital district under Minnesota Statutes, section 447.34, 
1.9 	must not be levied at a rate that exceeds 0.063 percent of taxable market value the amount 
1.10 	authorized to be levied under that section. The proceeds of the tax may be used for all 
1.11 	purposes of the hospital district, except as provided in paragraph (b).
1.12 	(b) 0.048 percent of taxable market value of tax in paragraph (a) may be used only 
1.13 	for acquisition, betterment, and maintenance of the district's hospital and nursing home 
1.14 	facilities and equipment, and not for administrative or salary expenses.
1.15 	(c) 0.015 percent of taxable market value of the tax in paragraph (a) may be used 
1.16 	solely for the purpose of capital expenditures as it relates to ambulance acquisitions for 
1.17 	the Cook ambulance service and the Orr ambulance service and not for administrative 
1.18 	or salary expenses.
1.19 	The part of the levy referred to in paragraph (c) (b) must be administered by the 
1.20 	Cook Hospital and passed on directly to the Cook area ambulance service board and the 
1.21 	city of Orr to be held in trust until funding for a new ambulance is needed by either the 
1.22 	Cook ambulance service or the Orr ambulance service.

2.1 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective upon compliance with Minnesota 
2.2 	Statutes, section 645.021, subdivision 3, by the governing body of the Cook-Orr Hospital 
2.3 	District.