Bill Text: MN SF535 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Capital project funding report on jobs created or retained

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-03 - Referred to Capital Investment [SF535 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2011-SF535-Introduced.html

1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to capital investment; requiring state agencies to track and report on
1.3the number of jobs created or retained as a result of capital project funding;
1.4amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 16A.633, by adding a subdivision.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6    Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 16A.633, is amended by adding a
1.7subdivision to read:
1.8    Subd. 4. Report on jobs created or retained. By September 1 of each
1.9odd-numbered year, the commissioner of management and budget must report to
1.10legislative committees with jurisdiction over capital investment on the jobs created or
1.11retained as a result of capital project funding by the state, whether with state general
1.12obligation bond proceeds or other state funding sources, during the previous biennium.
1.13Each state agency must provide the commissioner the information necessary, and
1.14must require its capital project grantees to provide the information necessary, for the
1.15commissioner to make the report. The report must include, but is not limited to, the
1.16following information: the number and types of jobs for each project, whether new or
1.17retained, where the jobs were located, and pay ranges. The Board of Regents of the
1.18University of Minnesota, the Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and
1.19Universities, and each agency appropriated money for a capital project shall collect and
1.20provide the information at the time and in the manner required by the commissioner.
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