hf2189 FOURTH ENGROSSMENT Omnibus transportation finance bill appropriating money for the department of transportation and other agencies, and proposing constitutional amendments to dedicate motor vehicle sales tax revenues to the highway user tax distribution fund. ARTICLE 1 TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Section 1: Transportation appropriations summary provided. Sec. 2: Transportation appropriations summary detailed by fund, including: aeronautics, transit, railroads, motor carriers, local roads, state roads, buildings, transfers, contingent appropriation, and use of state road construction appropriations. Sec. 3: Metropolitan council transit appropriations summary provided. Sec. 4: Public safety appropriations summary provided. Sec. 5: General contingent accounts appropriations summary provided. Sec. 6: Tort claims provided. Sec. 7: Fiscal year 2001 appropriations transfers detailed. Sec. 8: Office of pipeline safety assessments approved. Sec. 9: Certain one-time appropriations provided. Sec. 10: DOT District 1 construction budget reduced. Sec. 11: Port of Minneapolis zoning restrictions provided. Sec. 12: Town bridges and culverts engineering cost financial assistance eligibility amounts provided. Sec. 13: Trailer weight tax clarified. Sec. 14: Operating assistance for Duluth transit authority clarified. Sec. 15: Highway maintenance billing allowances provided. Sec. 16: Language updated relating to snowmobile gasoline consumption. Sec. 17: Metropolitan council transit appropriation for 2002 eliminated.ARTICLE 2 TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENTSection 1: State highway bond proceed transfer allowed. Sec. 2: Use of unmarked government vehicles by investigative staff of the gambling control board allowed. Sec. 3: Language relating to leasing procedures updated. Sec. 4: Trunk highway construction bids allowed to be placed on the Internet. Sec. 5: Electronic furnishing of securities provided. Sec. 6: Lowest responsible bidder procedures clarified. Sec. 7: Bid record Internet posting allowed. Sec. 8: Interregional corridor development funding provided. Sec. 9: Reconveyance of property to former owner authorized with consent of owner. Sec. 10: Disaster account language updated. Sec. 11: Disaster account language updated. Sec. 12: Bridge upgrade assistance detailed. Sec. 13: State highway bond proceeds used to purchase property payment procedures provided, and related terms defined. Sec. 14: Vehicle registration fee exemption provided for unmarked vehicles used by investigative staff of gambling control board. Sec. 15: Motor vehicle registration renewal filing fee increased and dealer retention provided. Sec. 16: Semitrailer surge brake specifications established. Sec. 17: State fund spending on light rail transit study prohibited. Sec. 18: Notice to legislature of spending towards high-speed rail studies required. Sec. 19: Draft environmental impact statements included on reports to commmissioner. Sec. 20: Major transportation project definition modified. Sec. 21: Commissioner given power to purchase land and erect communications towers. Sec. 22: Trunk highway fund fee deposit provided. Sec. 23: Commuter rail facility fund expenditure provided. Sec. 24: Quiet zones established. Sec. 25: Transit lease disposition permitted. Sec. 26: General fund distribution figures modified. Sec. 27: Public safety officer definition clarified. Sec. 28: Transportation revolving loan fund related definitions modified, purpose clarified, and loan account established. Various related procedures detailed. Sec. 29: Claims for losses involving recreational motor vehicles within the right-of-way of a road except the municipality is liable for conduct entitling a trespasser to damages. Sec. 30: Transportation advisory board established. Sec. 31: Expenditure of state funds for light rail studies prohibited. Sec. 32: Special taxing district for light rail transit established and necessary details provided. Sec. 33: "Facility," "land area," and "net tax capacity" defined. Sec. 34: Service charge imposition allowed. Sec. 35: Performance-based funding program for certain providers recipient payment percentage reduced. Sec. 36: Laws amended to reflect changes in appropriations. Sec. 37: Bus transit ways study allowed. Sec. 38: 2002 highway user tax distribution fund appropriation eliminated. Sec. 39: Tower erection restrictions provided. Sec. 40: Metropolitan council restrictions provided. Sec. 41: Hiawatha Avenue light rail transit cost calculation provided. Sec. 42: Trunk highway 62 construction project report required. Sec. 43: Constitutional amendment proposed to require 60 percent of the proceeds from taxes on the sale of new and used motor vehicles to be deposited in the highway user tax distribution fund. Sec. 44: Constitutional amendment submitted to voters in 2002. Sec. 45: Constitutional amendment proposed. Sec. 46: Amendment submission to voters required. AE