1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; appropriating money for the Hibbing Memorial 
1.3 	Building; 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.
 1.6 	$25,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the commissioner of 
1.7 	employment and economic development for a grant to the city of Hibbing to acquire 
1.8 	land for, and to design, construct, furnish, and equip a 60,000 square foot expansion 
1.9 	of the Memorial Building, to include an ice sheet for skating and hockey, a pool, a 
1.10 	community and fitness center, and additional parking space, and to renovate and make 
1.11 	other improvements of a capital nature to existing space within the Memorial Building.

1.12 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 1.13 	To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the bond proceeds fund, 
1.14 	the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to 
1.15 	$25,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
1.16 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, 
1.17 	sections 4 to 7.

1.18 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 1.19 	Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final enactment.