1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; appropriating money for veterans homes; 
1.3 	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 	$42,062,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the commissioner of 
1.7 	administration for improvements and betterments of a capital nature at veterans homes 
1.8 	statewide. Of this appropriation:
1.9 	(1) $7,000,000 is for asset preservation improvements, to be spent in accordance 
1.10 	with Minnesota Statutes, section 16B.307;
1.11 	(2) $1,000,000 is to demolish Building 9 and relocate the water main serving the 
1.12 	Minneapolis campus;
1.13 	(3) $7,835,000 is to replace sections of the campuswide HVAC system that serves 
1.14 	Building 17 on the Minneapolis campus. Federal money received by the Minnesota 
1.15 	Department of Veterans Affairs as reimbursement for 65 percent of this state capital 
1.16 	expenditure must be credited to the debt service account in the state bond fund;
1.17 	(4) $26,000,000 is to design, construct, furnish, and equip a 100-bed nursing facility 
1.18 	on the Minneapolis campus. Federal money received by the Minnesota Department of 
1.19 	Veterans Affairs as reimbursement for 65 percent of this state capital expenditure must be 
1.20 	credited to the debt service account in the state bond fund;
1.21 	(5) $227,000 is for the state share of the cost to design, construct, furnish, and 
1.22 	equip an addition to and renovation of the nursing care facility on the Silver Bay campus. 
1.23 	This appropriation is in addition to the appropriation in Laws 2006, chapter 258, section 
1.24 	19, subdivision 7, for this project.

2.1 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 2.2 	To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the bond proceeds fund, 
2.3 	the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to 
2.4 	$42,062,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
2.5 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, 
2.6 	sections 4 to 7.

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