Bills are still making their way to Pawlenty

05/24/2007

By Conrad Defiebre,
Star Tribune
Last update: May 23, 2007


Still waiting for a chance to consider whether to sign or veto major budget and tax bills passed in the final hours of the legislative session Monday, Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed several smaller measures Wednesday, including $2 million in flood relief for Browns Valley.

Also signed into law was a process and timeline for divesting state pension funds from companies with active business operations in Sudan on grounds of ongoing genocide in its Darfur region.

The State Board of Investment will be required to sell off all stock in such firms within 18 months. The state could reinvest in Sudanese enterprises if the federal government revoked its sanctions against Sudan or determined that genocide there had been halted for at least a year.

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