3E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for transportation, metropolitan council and public safety activities

ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for multimodal systems, airport development and assistance, aviation support and services, transit, freight, rail, state roads, infrastructure investment and planning and support, state road construction, highway debt service, infrastructure operations and maintenance, electronic communications, local roads, county and municipal state aids, department support and buildings; authorizing certain fund transfers and state road construction appropriations use and providing for contingent appropriations, to the metropolitan council for bus transit and rail operations, to the commissioner of public safety for administration and related costs, office of communications, public safety support, technical support services, the state patrol for patrolling highways, commercial vehicle enforcement, capitol security, driver and vehicle services and traffic and pipeline safety; authorizing certain expenditures under general contingent accounts; providing for tort claims; providing for state employee compensation adjustments; requiring Lafayette bridge reconstruction or improvement compatibility with future transit (light rail transit LRT) possibility; requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to issue necessary permits to the city of Rochester to complete construction of a new folded diamond interchange in the northeast and northwest quadrants at trunk highway #52 and a local city street; authorizing use of federal transit funds for capital assistance for public transit systems; creating the county road #3 to overpass task force to plan the design, construction and funding for Scott county road #3 overpass over trunk highway #169; creating the airport funding advisory task force to study and recommend the best methods for funding airports and the state airports fund, specifying certain membership requirements and duties, requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date

ARTICLE 2 - FUEL TAX

Increasing the motor fuels excise tax; requiring the commissioner of revenue to annually adjust and publish fuel tax rates, specifying a calculation for adjustment

ARTICLE 3 - VEHICLE REGISTRATION TAX

Modifying passenger vehicle registration tax and modifying the imposition of the motor vehicle registration tax on passenger automobiles in subsequent years

ARTICLE 4 - LOCAL SALES TAX

Authorizing the metropolitan transportation area joint powers board to impose a transportation sales and use tax and a sales tax on motor vehicles within the metropolitan transportation area, requiring counties to enter into a joint powers agreement and to create a joint powers board, providing an option for contiguous counties, creating a metropolitan area transportation fund for deposit of revenues and appropriating money in the fund to the commissioner of finance for allocation; requiring the joint powers board to establish a grant application and award process; authorizing and providing for imposition of the taxes in counties and cities outside the metropolitan transportation area, limitation, requiring dedication of the proceeds to specific transportation projects

ARTICLE 5 - COUNTY WHEELAGE TAX

Expanding the county wheelage tax statewide, increasing the limit and requiring crediting to the road and bridge fund of the county levying the tax

ARTICLE 6 - MOTOR VEHICLE SALES TAX, MOTOR VEHICLE LEASE SALES TAX

Establishing a transit assistance fund; changing the name of the greater Minnesota transit fund and metropolitan area transit fund to the greater Minnesota transit account; increasing motor vehicle rental fees; removing a metropolitan council sales tax exemption; providing inclusion of the document administration fee in the total amount paid for lease sales tax purposes; requiring separate lessor tax reporting; modifying the percentage of motor vehicle sales tax revenues required to be deposited in the highway user tax distribution and the metropolitan area and greater Minnesota transit funds; modifying metropolitan council financial assistance provisions relating to the replacement service program; repealing the transit assistance program

ARTICLE 7 - COUNTY STATE-AID FUND DISTRIBUTION

Modifying the county state aid highway fund apportionment formula, providing for the calculation and apportionment of the excess sum and apportionment sum

ARTICLE 8 - DRIVER AND VEHICLE SERVICES FEES

Requiring an administrative fee payment for motor vehicle registration exceptions and modifying the exception; modifying motor vehicle license plate and sticker additional fees; increasing motor vehicle title fees; modifying drivers license, permit, identification and reinstatement fees; specifying state patrol escort service fees

ARTICLE 9 - TRUNK HIGHWAY BONDING

Requiring the commissioner of finance to report to the commissioner of revenue the debt service and trunk highway bond proceeds account forecasts; requiring commissioner of revenue fuel tax surcharge computation and publication; appropriating money to DOT for trunk highway improvements and for the Great River road, Mankato district headquarters, DOT building repair and a trunk highway interchange, to the commissioner of finance for bond sale expenses and authorizing and providing for the sale of state bonds; requiring the commissioner of transportation to give priority to trunk highway projects with a federal match

ARTICLE 10 - TRANSPORTATION STATUTORY CHANGES

Increasing the motor vehicle cash sale price document administration fee; modifying the distribution of the highway user tax distribution fund; appropriating remaining balances in the world war II memorial donation matching account to the commissioner of veterans affairs under certain conditions; increasing the surcharge for revoked drivers license reinstatement; modifying certain forecast requirements for highway user tax distribution fund and trunk highway fund revenues and expenditures; requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to utilize the maximum feasible amount of all federal funding to develop, conduct and administer highway construction training; requiring the commissioner to include a contractor sanction for contracts with federal funding not meeting project disadvantaged business enterprise goals or a good faith effort; modifying eligible activities of the public transit participation program; establishing certain requirements for paratransit projects serving persons with disabilities; requiring commissioner of transportation to work with providers to provide supplementary paratransit services; requiring commissioner to enter into intercounty service agreements with certain providers; requiring commissioner to support one stop regional call centers to assist customers with rides; adding certain transit service provider implementation duties to the metropolitan council; requiring the commissioner of transportation to report on major highway projects status annually; regulating county regional railroad authority capital and operating and maintenance costs transit contributions; increasing the bonding authority of the metropolitan council to issue certificates of indebtedness, bonds or other obligations for metropolitan area transit and paratransit capital expenditures, limit; modifying metropolitan area light rail transit (LRT) planning, designing and construction; requiring the metropolitan council to identify in the transportation policy plan heavily traveled corridors to be benefited by transitways; requiring the council to designate locally preferred alternative transit modes after locally directed studies; requiring the governor to designate the metropolitan council or the state acting through the department of transportation (DOT) as the responsible authority for each metropolitan area proposed light rail transit facility; requiring the DOT to transfer all constructed facilities, equipment and property to the metropolitan council upon LRT facility completion; authorizing the metropolitan council to plan, design, acquire, construct and equip LRT facilities in the metropolitan area; clarifying metropolitan transit police jurisdiction; redefining transit tax district; authorizing transit tax levies outside the existing metropolitan transit taxing district; modifying certain duties of the commissioner of revenue relating to transit tax imposition determinations; including the transit police in the definition of appropriate agency under distribution of forfeited items; requiring a Northstar corridor commuter rail station in the city of Fridley; requiring the commissioner of transportation and the metropolitan council to provide special transportation reports to the legislature by a certain date; repealing metropolitan council district boundaries, transit taxing district additions and certain construction of rail facilities local government restrictions

ARTICLE 11 - CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS

Requiring the commissioner of public safety to propose a system to the legislature by a certain date to allow credit and debit card payments of motor vehicle registration taxes, certificate of title transactions, and driver's license and ID card fees; authorizing consideration of a fee imposition to registration taxes for processing fees costs on all the types of credit and debit card payments, limitation
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