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HF 2376

as introduced - 90th Legislature (2017 - 2018) Posted on 02/27/2018 11:52am

KEY: stricken = removed, old language.
underscored = added, new language.

Current Version - as introduced

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A bill for an act
relating to transportation finance; modifying an appropriation for state road
construction; amending Laws 2015, chapter 75, article 1, section 3, subdivision 3.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Laws 2015, chapter 75, article 1, section 3, subdivision 3, is amended to read:


Subd. 3.

State Roads

(a) Operations and Maintenance
288,405,000
290,916,000

The base appropriation in fiscal year 2018 is
$292,140,000 and in fiscal year 2019 is
$301,545,000.

(b) Program Planning and Delivery
237,529,000
231,252,000

$130,000 in each year is available for
administrative costs of the targeted group
business program.

$266,000 in each year is available for grants
to metropolitan planning organizations outside
the seven-county metropolitan area.

$900,000 in each year is available for grants
for transportation studies outside the
metropolitan area to identify critical concerns,
problems, and issues. These grants are
available: (1) to regional development
commissions; (2) in regions where no regional
development commission is functioning, to
joint powers boards established under
agreement of two or more political
subdivisions in the region to exercise the
planning functions of a regional development
commission; and (3) in regions where no
regional development commission or joint
powers board is functioning, to the
department's district office for that region.

$1,000,000 in each year is available for
management of contaminated and regulated
material on property owned by the Department
of Transportation, including mitigation of
property conveyances, facility acquisition or
expansion, chemical release at maintenance
facilities, and spills on the trunk highway
system where there is no known responsible
party. If the appropriation for either year is
insufficient, the appropriation for the other
year is available for it.

$6,804,000 in the first year and $1,000,000 in
the second year are available for the purposes
stated in Minnesota Statutes, section 12A.16,
subdivision 2
.

The base appropriation for program planning
and delivery in fiscal year 2018 is
$227,004,000 and in fiscal year 2019 is
$234,331,000.

(c) State Road Construction
779,664,000
deleted text begin 744,166,000 deleted text end new text begin
849,166,000
new text end

This appropriation is for the actual
construction, reconstruction, and improvement
of trunk highways, including design-build
contracts, internal department costs associated
with delivering the construction program, and
consultant usage to support these activities.
This includes the cost of actual payment to
landowners for lands acquired for highway
rights-of-way, payment to lessees, interest
subsidies, and relocation expenses.

new text begin This appropriation includes federal highway
aid.
new text end

$1,000,000 in the first year is to complete
projects using funds made available to the
commissioner of transportation under title XII
of the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009, Public Law 111-5, and
implemented under Minnesota Statutes,
section 161.36, subdivision 7.

$10,000,000 in each year is for the
transportation economic development program
under Minnesota Statutes, section 174.12.

The commissioner may expend up to one-half
of one percent of the federal appropriations
under this paragraph as grants to opportunity
industrialization centers and other nonprofit
job training centers for job training programs
related to highway construction.

The commissioner may transfer up to
$15,000,000 each year to the transportation
revolving loan fund.

The commissioner may receive money
covering other shares of the cost of partnership
projects. These receipts are appropriated to
the commissioner for these projects.

The base appropriation for state road
construction in each of fiscal years 2018 and
2019 is $695,800,000.

(d) Highway Debt Service
197,381,000
231,199,000

$187,881,000 the first year and $221,699,000
the second year are for transfer to the state
bond fund. If this appropriation is insufficient
to make all transfers required in the year for
which it is made, the commissioner of
management and budget shall transfer the
deficiency amount under the statutory open
appropriation, and notify the chairs and
ranking minority members of the legislative
committees with jurisdiction over
transportation finance and the chairs of the
senate Committee on Finance and the house
of representatives Committee on Ways and
Means of the amount of the deficiency. Any
excess appropriation cancels to the trunk
highway fund.

(e) Statewide Radio Communications
5,358,000
5,486,000
Appropriations by Fund
2016
2017
General
35,000
3,000
Trunk Highway
5,323,000
5,483,000

$3,000 in each year is from the general fund
to equip and operate the Roosevelt signal
tower for Lake of the Woods weather
broadcasting.

$32,000 in the first year is from the general
fund for a weather transmitter in Lake of the
Woods County.

The base appropriation from the trunk
highway fund in fiscal year 2018 is $5,645,000
and in fiscal year 2019 is $5,826,000.

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective the day following submission by the
commissioner of transportation of all communications and materials, in their entirety and
without redaction, previously provided by the commissioner to any member of the legislature
following a request pursuant to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, Minnesota
Statutes, chapter 13, related to the Department of Transportation's 2016 request to the
Legislative Advisory Commission for authorization to expend federal funds under the Fixing
America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act). The submission must be made to the
chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative committees with jurisdiction over
transportation finance, finance, and ways and means, and to the revisor of statutes.
new text end