Bill Text: MN SF2564 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Historical society sites preservation and improvements bond issue and appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-12 - Referred to Finance [SF2564 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2013-SF2564-Introduced.html

1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to capital investment; appropriating money for historic sites and historic
1.3preservation, including the Oliver H. Kelley Farm Historic Site; authorizing
1.4the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6    Section 1. HISTORIC SITES PRESERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT;
1.7HISTORIC PRESERVATION.
1.8    Subdivision 1. Appropriation. $19,882,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds
1.9fund to the Minnesota Historical Society for the purposes in this subdivision. Of this
1.10amount:
1.11(1) $10,562,000 is to complete design and to construct, furnish, and equip the
1.12renovation of the Oliver H. Kelley Historic Site, including the site's visitor center and
1.13other essential visitor services and site operations facilities;
1.14(2) $6,820,000 is for capital improvements and betterments of state historic sites,
1.15buildings, landscaping, historic buildings, exhibits, markers, and monuments, to be spent
1.16in accordance with Minnesota Statutes, section 16B.307. The society shall determine
1.17project priorities as appropriate based on need;
1.18(3) $500,000 is to predesign facilities to support visitor services and history
1.19programs at Historic Fort Snelling;
1.20(4) $1,500,000 is for allocations to county and local jurisdictions as matching money
1.21for historic preservation projects of a capital nature, as provided in Minnesota Statutes,
1.22section 138.0525; and
1.23(5) $500,000 for predesign for redevelopment of the public service and collections
1.24storage facilities of the Minnesota History Center.
2.1    Subd. 2. Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the
2.2bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue
2.3bonds of the state in an amount up to $19,882,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with
2.4the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
2.5Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
2.6EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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