Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF0898

3E Relating to transportation

ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION
APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation
(DOT) for multimodal systems, airport development and assistance, aviation
support and services, transit, freight, state roads operations and maintenance,
program planning and delivery, construction, highway debt service, electronic
communications, local roads, county and municipal state aids, state aid
appropriation adjustments, agency management, services, buildings; requiring the
commissioner of transportation to make certain transfers, specifying use of
state road construction appropriations and allowing a contingent appropriation,
prohibiting certain use of the trunk highway fund; appropriating money to the
metropolitan council for bus transit and rail operations, and to the
commissioner of public safety for administration and related purposes, the
office of communications, public safety support, technology and support
services, state patrol, commercial vehicle enforcement, capitol security, the
vehicle crimes unit, driver and vehicle services and traffic and pipeline
safety; authorizing and providing for certain fund transfers and tort claims
payment; extending previous state road appropriations with reduced
funding

ARTICLE 2 - TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT

Establishing requirements
governing capital requests for projects to establish fixed guideway transit and
rail lines; modifying certain provisions relating to detailed capital budget
submission requirements, requests for state assistance information, guideway
investments, and legislative reporting; creating the trunk highway economic
development account for construction, reconstruction, and improvement funding
for metropolitan and regional districts; changing the county state-aid highway
fund and municipal state-aid street fund estimates time period; modifying
formula requirements in allocating state aid for town roads; specifying an end
date for the vehicle registration technology surcharge; extending the
applicability of motor vehicle plates for physically disabled persons to
motorcycle plates; allowing license plate payments to include an additional
payment for anatomical gifts public information and education; expanding the
eligibility for gold star license plates to surviving legal guardians, siblings,
children of persons who died while serving honorably in active service;
increasing motor vehicles registration renewal and transaction fees, extending
certain surcharges, motor vehicle title fees, authorizing the department of
transportation (DOT) to charge annual special permit fees for motor vehicle
transport of waterfront structures on trunk highways; requiring trunk highway
fund crediting; reducing drivers license, permit, and identification (ID) card
fees; allowing drivers license agents to charge filing fees; establishing an
anatomical gift account; allowing metropolitan council transfers to the
metropolitan livable communities accounts and allowing the council to make
certain transfers to the transit operating budget; requiring a public safety
commissioner legislative report on the anatomical gift account
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