1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; providing for permanent county state-aid highway fund 
1.3 	screening board; providing for age of driver transporting hazardous materials 
1.4 	under federal materials-of-trade regulation; repealing provision requiring 
1.5 	distribution of rules by mail;amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections 
1.6 	162.07, subdivision 5; 221.033, by adding a subdivision; repealing Minnesota 
1.7 	Statutes 2004, section 360.015, subdivision 16.
1.8 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.9 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 162.07, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
1.10 		Subd. 5.Screening board. (a) On or before September 1 of each year the county 
1.11 	engineer of each county shall forward to the commissioner, on forms prepared by the 
1.12 	commissioner, all information relating to the mileage, in lane-miles, of the county state-aid 
1.13 	highway system in the county, and the money needs of the county that the commissioner 
1.14 	deems necessary in order to apportion the county state-aid highway fund in accordance 
1.15 	with the formula heretofore set forth. Upon receipt of the information the commissioner 
1.16 	shall appoint a board consisting of the following county engineers:
1.17 	(1) two county engineers from the metropolitan highway construction district;
1.18 	(2) one county engineer from each nonmetropolitan highway district; and
1.19 	(3) one additional county engineer from each county with a population of 175,000 
1.20 	or more.
1.21 	No county engineer shall be appointed under clause (1) or (2) so as to serve consecutively 
1.22 	for more than four years. The board shall investigate and review the information submitted 
1.23 	by each county and shall on or before the first day of November of each year submit its 
1.24 	findings and recommendations in writing as to each county's lane-mileage and money 
1.25 	needs to the commissioner on a form prepared by the commissioner. Final determination 
2.1 	of the lane-mileage of each system and the money needs of each county shall be made by 
2.2 	the commissioner.
2.3 	(b) Notwithstanding section  15.059, subdivision 5, the committee expires June 
2.4 	30, 2006 does not expire. 

2.5 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 221.033, is amended by adding a subdivision 
2.6 	to read:
2.7 		Subd. 2d.Age of driver under federal materials-of-trade regulation. A driver 
2.8 	of a self-propelled or towed motor vehicle  transporting no hazardous material other than 
2.9 	materials of trade, as defined in Code of Federal Regulations, title 49, section 171.8, must 
2.10 	be at least 18 years of age. This subdivision does not apply unless the transportation 
2.11 	conforms to the requirements of Code of Federal Regulations, title 49, section 173.6.

2.12 	Sec. 3.  REPEALER.
 2.13 	Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 360.015, subdivision 16, is repealed.