Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF2812

E Providing for funding of transportation projects ARTICLE 1 TRANSPORTATION
FINANCEEstablishing a multimodal transportation fund to be used for metropolitan
transit and statewide transportation purposes, creating a department of
transportation multimodal account within the fund to be available to the
commissioner of transportation (DOT) for state transportation costs and a
transit account to be available to the metropolitan council for transit
operations and capital within the metropolitan area, specifying certain account
crediting and use requirements and certain biennial budget document requirements
for submittal to the legislature, requiring a certain percentage of money
available in the transportation multimodal account to be credited to a small
cities municipal account; modifying the apportionment of the county state aid
highway fund to counties, providing for an apportionment sum and an excess sum;
providing for commissioner apportionment to certain cities of money in the small
cities municipal account based on municipal street lane miles, requiring notice
of amounts to the commissioner of finance for payment purposes, requiring use of
the money for establishment, location, construction, improvement and maintenance
of streets within the cities, authorizing use of a portion of the money on state
trunk or county state aid highways within the cities upon commissioner consent;
increasing the gasoline and special fuels tax rates, requiring annual
commissioner of revenue inflation adjustments, requiring crediting of the tax
rate adjustments to the trunk highway debt service account in the trunk highway
fund; modifying the allocation of motor vehicle sales tax revenues, requiring
the crediting of a certain percentage to the multimodal transportation fund;
appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation and authorizing the
issuance of state trunk highway bonds for the construction, reconstruction and
improvement of trunk highways, requiring use of half of the proceeds on projects
to relieve bottlenecks or at risk interregional corridors in the metropolitan
area and the other half for at risk interregional corridors outside the
metropolitan area, authorizing use of a certain percentage for program delivery
provided by state employees; appropriating an additional amount to the
commissioner from the trunk highway fund for trunk highways construction and
improvement and another sum for debt service payments; specifying a projects
priority for commissioner expenditure of money from the transportation
multimodal account, first for the east end of the St. Paul busway project,
second for the purchase of the Union depot in St. Paul and third for the design
and engineering for the Red Rock Rush line corridors ARTICLE 2 METROPOLITAN
TRANSPORTATIONDesignating the counties of Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota,
Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne, Washington and Wright as the
metropolitan transportation area and regulating highway spending in the area;
imposing additional sales and motor vehicle excise sales taxes in the area,
providing for collection by the commissioner of revenue; establishing a
metropolitan transportation fund for deposit of amounts collected, authorizing
use by the metropolitan council for acquisition of buses, highway shoulder
improvements and other capital expenses relating to transit and by the
commissioner of transportation (DOT) for highway system improvements in the
metropolitan transportation area, authorizing the metropolitan council to
provide grants to the commissioner for implementation of transit capital
improvements outside the metropolitan area but inside the metropolitan
transportation area; voter approval requirement and sunset ARTICLE 3
STREAMLINING AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONRequiring the commissioner of
transportation (DOT) to use a deicing solution derived from agricultural
products for snow and ice control on trunk highways upon determination of
economic feasibility and environmental and public safety, requiring the
commissioner in determining the materials to be used to consider the effect on
the environment and on the deterioration of bridges and other structures;
authorizing and providing for reimbursement to municipal or volunteer fire
departments by the commissioner from the motor vehicle fire revolving account to
be created in the special fund for certain expenses incurred in extinguishing
motor vehicle fires within trunk or interstate highway rights-of-way, limit,
requiring commissioner deposit into the account of reimbursements received for
costs of extinguishing the fires; providing for commissioner grants to new
transit systems from excess property tax replacement aid; increasing the amount
required to be transferred by the commissioner from the state airports fund to
the hangar construction revolving account; expanding the authority of towns to
collect unpaid service charges; requiring and providing for legislative review
of metropolitan airports commission (MAC) annual budgets and planned actions to
abate airport related noise; increasing the amount allowed to be spent by the
city of Rochester from local sales tax proceeds and the bonding authority for
construction of a regional recreation and sports center and associated
facilities and specifying a deadline for termination of the local taxes;
requiring the commissioner to create a technical advisory group to conduct
research, evaluate alternatives, and make findings and recommendations to the
legislature by a certain date on streamlining the process of environmental
review for transportation related projects; authorizing and providing for the
commissioner to enter into a joint venture with Crow Wing county, the
commissioner of natural resources (DNR) and the Brainerd Lakes area chamber of
commerce for operation of facilities at the rest area to be constructed between
Brainerd and Little Falls on state highway 371; authorizing the commissioner of
transportation to enter into contracts or renew existing contracts for
professional or technical services not paid for from general funds; requiring
the commissioner to by a certain date reserve construction funds to ensure the
completion of a southbound exit and northbound entrance ramp connecting I-35W
with county state aid highway 3 and a northbound exit ramp connection to east
28th street in the city of Minneapolis (je, ja)