1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; authorizing the issuance of state bonds; 
1.3 	appropriating money for metropolitan regional park acquisition and betterment. 
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.6 	$15,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the commissioner of 
1.7 	natural resources for a grant to the Metropolitan Council. The commissioner shall pay the 
1.8 	amount on a reimbursement basis to the Metropolitan Council upon receipt of a certified 
1.9 	copy of a council resolution requesting payment. The appropriation must be used to pay 
1.10 	the cost of improvements and betterments of a capital nature, and acquisition by the 
1.11 	council and local government units of regional recreational open-space lands in accordance 
1.12 	with the council's policy plan as provided in Minnesota Statutes, section 473.315.

1.13 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 1.14 	To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the bond proceeds fund, 
1.15 	the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to 
1.16 	$15,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
1.17 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, 
1.18 	sections 4 to 7.

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