1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; appropriating money for the Lowry Avenue 
1.3 	Bridge Phase II; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; PHASE II LOWRY AVENUE BRIDGE.
 1.6 		Subdivision 1.Appropriation. $10,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds 
1.7 	fund to the commissioner of transportation for a grant to Hennepin County for Phase 
1.8 	II of the project for the removal of the existing Canadian Pacific (CP) Rail bridge and 
1.9 	crib wall structure supporting the roadway, construction of a retaining wall structure to 
1.10 	support Lowry Avenue, construction of an extension of Phase I, the construction and 
1.11 	replacement of the Lowry Avenue Bridge carrying County State-Aid Highway 153 across 
1.12 	the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.
1.13 		Subd. 2.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the 
1.14 	bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue 
1.15 	bonds of the state in an amount up to $10,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with 
1.16 	the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the 
1.17 	Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

1.18 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.