The MN Office of the Revisor reports…
SF22 is introduced: Broadband grant program money transfer deposit authorization by Senators Bakk and Tomassoni.
It is Referred to Housing Finance and Policy
And more details …
A bill for an act
relating to telecommunications; transferring money for deposit in the broadband
grant program.BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1. BROADBAND GRANT PROGRAM; TRANSFER.
$60,000,000 in fiscal year 2022 and $60,000,000 in fiscal year 2023 are transferred from
the general fund to the commissioner of employment and economic development for deposit
in the border-to-border broadband fund account established in Minnesota Statutes, section
116J.396, subdivision 1, for the purposes specified in Minnesota Statutes, section 116J.396,
subdivision 2.EFFECTIVE DATE.
This section is effective the day following final enactment.
A similar bill (HF14) was introduced in the Minnesota House today too.