Minneapolis ? A stadium bill awaiting the governor’s signature could help resolve a lawsuit that seeks to keep the Minnesota Twins at the Metrodome, lawyers for the team and baseball said Monday.

The legislature passed a financing plan for a $330 million ballpark on Saturday night. Gov. Jesse Ventura has 14 days to consider it.

The bill gives the sides an extra incentive to clear up the lawsuit, filed by the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission in an attempt to tie the Twins to the Metrodome beyond this season. The Twins’ lease expires at season’s end.

A provision in the bill prevents any bonds from being sold until the case is settled, dismissed or the Twins and the league turn over financial records and documents related to baseball’s plans to eliminate the Twins and the Montreal Expos.

Hennepin County District Judge Harry Seymour Crump agreed to delay decisions related to the case for two weeks.

“This is a very, very special development that everyone is trying to understand and trying to figure out the implications of,” said Roger Magnuson, the Twins’ lawyer.

Joseph Anthony, a Minneapolis-based attorney representing major league baseball, urged the MSFC to drop its lawsuit.

“You can’t have a stadium until this case is dismissed,” Anthony said after the hearing. “The commission is interfering with the Twins staying here by not dismissing this case.”

Bill Lester, MSFC executive director, said the commission isn’t ready to give up its fight.

“This whole court case is an effort to ensure this team stays in Minnesota, and therefore we are not going to dismiss until we are guaranteed that this team is going to be here for the long term,” he said.

Besides Ventura’s consent, other stadium hurdles remain. The Twins’ current owner or a new one must come up with $120 million, and a referendum to raise taxes in potential host cities must be approved.

MSFC attorney Corey Ayling said he will stay focused on the Aug. 19 trial date.

In court Monday, he asked Crump to force the Twins and the league to comply fully with an MSFC request for contraction-related documents. The Twins already have turned over more than 21,000 documents, almost all of them marked confidential.