This happened the other day but it feels real now that Legislature has started. The following was introduced in the House (HF3029)…
Representatives Ecklund, Layman, Sandstede, Lislegard, Lueck, Brand, Poston, Hamilton and Persell introduced a bill to transfer $30 million to the broadband grant funds on January 31, 2020 in a pre-session move…
A bill for an act
relating to telecommunications; providing an annual statutory appropriation for
the broadband development grant program; appropriating money; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 116J.396, subdivision 3.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1.
Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 116J.396, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
Subd. 3.
Transfer; appropriation; use.
$30,000,000 each fiscal year is transferred from
the general fund to the commissioner of employment and economic development for deposit
in the border-to-border broadband fund under subdivision 1. Money in the account is
appropriated to the commissioner for the purposes of specified in subdivision 2.EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION.
This section is effective July 1, 2020. The first
transfer under this section must be made in fiscal year 2021.
It was referred to Jobs and Economic Development Finance Division.