1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital investment; appropriating money for railway and highway safety 
1.3 	improvements for pedestrian and bicycle trails in Dakota County along the Veterans 
1.4 	Memorial Greenway; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. DAKOTA COUNTY; VETERANS MEMORIAL GREENWAY.
 1.7 		Subdivision 1.Appropriation. $13,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds 
1.8 	fund to the Metropolitan Council for a grant to Dakota County for right-of-way acquisition, 
1.9 	veteran-themed memorials, and for design and construction of pedestrian safety-related 
1.10 	improvements, including grade-separated crossings of railroads and multilane highways in 
1.11 	Dakota County, within the trail corridor between Lebanon Hills Regional Park and the 
1.12 	Mississippi River.
1.13 		Subd. 2.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the bond 
1.14 	proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue bonds of 
1.15 	the state in an amount up to $13,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect 
1.16 	prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota 
1.17 	Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

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