ST. PAUL – A capital investment package featuring $22.5 million for a project at Bemidji State University and $12.5 million toward construction of a veterans home in Bemidji was among the bills receiving final approval from the Legislature in the waning minutes of the 2018 legislative session Sunday night.
“This is a great day for Bemidji,” Bliss said. “Funding for the veterans home in Bemidji and for construction at BSU are huge, at a combined $37 million for our district. Those projects have been muddling along in the proposal state for years – long before I was in the House – and I am proud we have brought them to the brink of enactment. Many other good measures to provide tax relief, transportation funding and student safety funding also are on the governor’s desk. People in this region are counting on the governor to do the right thing by signing them into law and we can only ask him to do the right thing.”
The Legislature adjourned just before midnight Sunday, shortly after having sent the bonding bill to Gov. Mark Dayton for enactment.
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