1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to veterans; authorizing funding for a veterans cemetery in Fillmore 
1.3 	County; appropriating money for design and predesign of veterans cemeteries; 
1.4 	amending Laws 2009, chapter 93, article 1, section 14, subdivision 3.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Laws 2009, chapter 93, article 1, section 14, subdivision 3, is amended to 
1.7 	read:

1.8	Subd. 3.Veterans Cemeteries
 				1,500,000
	
1.9 	Of this amount, up to $500,000 is to 
1.10 	acquire land located in Redwood County and,
1.11 	northeastern Minnesota, and Fillmore County
1.12 	for publicly owned veterans cemeteries, 
1.13 	to be operated by the commissioner of 
1.14 	veterans affairs. The commissioner also must 
1.15 	seek donations of land for the cemeteries. 
1.16 	The balance of the appropriation is to 
1.17 	predesign and design the cemeteries. 
1.18 	Federal reimbursement of predesign and 
1.19 	design costs for each cemetery must be 
1.20 	deposited in the state treasury and credited 
1.21 	to a special account and is appropriated to 
1.22 	the commissioner for asset preservation 
1.23 	of veterans homes statewide, to be spent 
1.24 	in accordance with Minnesota Statutes, 
2.1 	section 16B.307 to predesign and design the 
2.2 	remaining cemeteries.

2.3 	Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.4 	Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment.