Bill Text: MN HF1863 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Duluth transit center funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-24 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Transportation Policy and Finance [HF1863 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2011-HF1863-Introduced.html
1.2relating to capital investment; appropriating money for a transit center in the city
1.3of Duluth; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. DULUTH TRANSIT AUTHORITY; TRANSIT CENTER.
1.6 Subdivision 1. Appropriation. $6,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds
1.7fund to the commissioner of transportation for a grant to the Duluth Transit Authority to
1.8design, construct, furnish, and equip a transit center to accommodate intracity and intercity
1.9bus service and pedestrian connections to the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center
1.10and trails system. The facility may be constructed using the design-build method of project
1.11delivery to expedite the project. This appropriation is not available until the commissioner
1.12determines that at least $20,000,000 is committed to the project from nonstate sources.
1.13 Subd. 2. Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the
1.14bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue
1.15bonds of the state in an amount up to $6,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with
1.16the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
1.17Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
1.18EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
1.3of Duluth; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. DULUTH TRANSIT AUTHORITY; TRANSIT CENTER.
1.6 Subdivision 1. Appropriation. $6,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds
1.7fund to the commissioner of transportation for a grant to the Duluth Transit Authority to
1.8design, construct, furnish, and equip a transit center to accommodate intracity and intercity
1.9bus service and pedestrian connections to the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center
1.10and trails system. The facility may be constructed using the design-build method of project
1.11delivery to expedite the project. This appropriation is not available until the commissioner
1.12determines that at least $20,000,000 is committed to the project from nonstate sources.
1.13 Subd. 2. Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the
1.14bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue
1.15bonds of the state in an amount up to $6,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with
1.16the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
1.17Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
1.18EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
