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SF 48 Senate Long Description

Providing for funding of transportation projectsARTICLE 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 and nonmetropolitan area transit assistance 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 for distribution to certain small cities; 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 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 (ra)