According to the MN House daily list of introduction of bills…
Layman; Baker; Ecklund; Sundin; Neu; Poston; Lueck; Considine; Metsa; Lien; Marquart; Howe; Murphy, M.; Gunther; Rarick; Heintzeman; Bliss; Hamilton; Kiel; Olson; Sandstede; Murphy, E.; Kresha; Schultz; Poppe; Johnson, C.; Haley; Backer and Mahoney introduced:
H. F. 3527, A bill for an act relating to telecommunications; appropriating money for the broadband grant program.
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Job Growth and Energy Affordability Policy and Finance.
Here is the text of that bill..
A bill for an act
relating to telecommunications; appropriating money for the broadband grant
program.BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1. BROADBAND GRANT PROGRAM; APPROPRIATION.
$51,480,000 is appropriated in fiscal year 2019 from the general fund to the commissioner
of employment and economic development for deposit in the border-to-border broadband
fund account under Minnesota Statutes, section 116J.396. The appropriation must be used
for grants and the purposes specified under Minnesota Statutes, section 116J.395.