1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; authorizing billing for
1.3 	highway sign program and establishing special account;
1.4 	increasing amount deductible from county state-aid
1.5 	highway fund for administrative costs; amending
1.6 	Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 162.06, subdivision
1.7 	2; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes,
1.8 	chapter 160.
1.9 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.10 	Section 1. [160.298] HIGHWAY SIGN PROGRAM; BILLING,
1.11 	ACCOUNT, APPROPRIATION.
1.12 	The commissioner of transportation may bill highway
1.13 	operations units of the department and local road authorities
1.14 	for the costs of a centrally managed highway sign program.
1.15 	These costs may include equipment acquisition and rental, labor,
1.16 	materials, and other costs as determined by the commissioner.
1.17 	Receipts must be credited to a special account, which is
1.18 	established in the trunk highway fund, and are appropriated to
1.19 	the commissioner to pay the costs for which the billings are
1.20 	made.  Amounts credited to the account are exempt from statewide
1.21 	and agency indirect costs payments.

1.22 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 162.06,
1.23 	subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.24 		Subd. 2.Administrative costs of department. A sum of
1.25 	1-1/2 Two percent shall must be deducted from the total amount
1.26 	available in the county state-aid highway fund, set aside in a
1.27 	separate account, and used for administrative costs incurred by
2.1 	the state Transportation Department in carrying out the
2.2 	provisions relating to the county state-aid highway system.

2.3 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.4 	Sections 1 and 2 are effective July 1, 2005.