1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; authorizing state
1.3 	bonds; appropriating money for land acquisition along
1.4 	the metropolitan Mississippi River.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.7 	(a) $4,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund
1.8 	to the commissioner of natural resources to acquire key
1.9 	bluffland parcels along both sides of the Mississippi River
1.10 	National Recreation Area, from Anoka to Hastings.
1.11 	(b) Of the amount appropriated in clause (a), $1,750,000 is
1.12 	for a grant to the city of St. Paul to acquire the bluffland in
1.13 	Henry Park.

1.14 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE AUTHORIZATION.
 1.15 	To provide the money appropriated in this act from the bond
1.16 	proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue
1.17 	bonds of the state in an amount up to $4,000,000 in the manner,
1.18 	upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota
1.19 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota
1.20 	Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

1.21 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 1.22 	Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final
1.23 	enactment.