HF5220 Summary

• Authorizes $898.6 million in state general obligation bonds and $86.6 million in transportation fund bonds for capital improvements across state agencies and programs in fiscal year 2025.

• Appropriates $382.1 million to Education (including $1 million for Clara City library), $94.6 million to Transportation (bridge replacement and local road improvements), and $86.6 million to Corrections for facility construction and improvements.

• Establishes new programs for drinking water contamination mitigation, community tree planting grants, emerging contaminants grants, and creates an accessibility account for ADA compliance improvements on state property.

• Reduces early childhood facility grant matching requirement from 50% to 25% nonstate funds and increases maximum housing grants for Greater Minnesota workforce housing development projects.

• Authorizes conveyance of state-owned Cloquet Forestry Center land to University of Minnesota to facilitate return to Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.