1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to public safety; appropriating money; bicycle light safety pilot program.
1.3 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.4 	Section 1. BICYCLE LIGHT SAFETY PILOT PROGRAM; APPROPRIATION.
 1.5 	(a) An amount equal to the undesignated fund balance in the bicycle transportation 
1.6 	account in the special revenue fund created in Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 168C.04, 
1.7 	subdivision 2, is appropriated from that account to the commissioner of public safety 
1.8 	in fiscal year 2012, for a bicycle light safety pilot program. The commissioner shall 
1.9 	establish the program to: procure head lamps for bicycles; coordinate with one local law 
1.10 	enforcement department to implement the pilot program; and distribute the head lamps 
1.11 	to bicyclists who are operating at night without legal lighting, free of charge and in lieu 
1.12 	of issuance of a traffic citation.
1.13 	(b) This appropriation is available only as matched by $1 of nonstate money for each 
1.14 	$1 of state money. This appropriation is available until June 30, 2013.

1.15 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.