HF 3800

FOURTH ENGROSSMENT

Omnibus transportation and transit policy bill; Transportation-related program or activity provisions modified and added, penalties imposed, reports required, and technical and clarifying corrections made.

ARTICLE 1 -- TRANSPORTATION POLICY

Section 1: No legal title without certificate language provided.

Section 2: Mayor William "Bill" Sandberg Memorial Bridge language added.

Section 3: Insurance standards language added.

Section 4: Tax authorized language modified.

Section 5: Passenger automobile language modified.

Section 6: Special mobile equipment language modified.

Section 7: Vehicles exempt from tax, fees, or plate display language modified.

Section 8: Spotter trucks language added.

Section 9: Concrete pumps and street-sweeping vehicles language added.

Section 10: Disability plates; application language modified.

Section 11: Plate design; furnished by commissioner language modified.

Section 12: Display of temporary permit language modified.

Section 13: Minnesota Sesquicentennial special plates language added.

Section 14: USDOT numbers language modified.

Section 15: Vehicles subject to tax; exceptions language modified.

Section 16: Special mobile equipment language modified.

Section 17: No certificate issued language modified.

Section 18: Neighborhood electric vehicle and medium-speed electric vehicles; certificate required language modified.

Section 19: Sale after 45 days or title transfer language modified.

Section 20: Written notice of impound language modified.

Section 21: Unauthorized vehicle; second notice language modified.

Section 22: Retrieval of contents language provided.

Section 23: Waiver of rights language modified.

Section 24: Auction or sale language modified.

Section 25: Spotter truck language added.

Section 26: Implement of husbandry language modified.

Section 27: Hazardous materials language modified.

Section 28: Wireless communications device language provided.

Section 29: Medium-speed electric vehicle language provided.

Section 30: Keep to the right language modified.

Section 31: Driving left of roadway center; exception language modified.

Section 32: Passing certain parked vehicles language added.

Section 33: Driver education curriculum language added.

Section 34: Neighborhood and medium-speed electric vehicles language modified.

Section 35: Spotter trucks language added.

Section 36: Office of Pupil Transportation Safety language added.

Section 37: Driver training programs language modified.

Section 38: Use of wireless communications device language added. The use of a cellular/cell phone or other similar electronic device for the purpose of electronic messaging, including the transmission of text messages (texting) or instant messages, is prohibited.

Section 39: Trailer, semitrailer language modified.

Section 40: Definitions language modified.

Section 41: Inspection required language modified.

Section 42: Inspection decal; violation, penalty language modified.

Section 43: Vehicle registration; displaying license plates language modified.

Section 44: Implement of husbandry language modified.

Section 45: Infrastructure adaptations language added.

Section 46: Hitch, chain, or cable language modified.

Section 47: Harvest season increase amount language modified.

Section 48: Driver to stop for weighing language modified.

Section 49: Tow truck language modified.

Section 50: Special canola hauling vehicle permits language provided.

Section 51: Notice of surcharge language provided.

Section 52: Hazardous materials language modified.

Section 53: School bus language modified.

Section 54: Driver's license classifications, endorsements, exemptions language modified.

Section 55: Persons exempt language modified.

Section 56: Use of provisional license language modified. A provisional license holder is prohibited from operating/driving a motor vehicle and communicating on a cellular phone/cell phone while the vehicle is in motion.

Section 57: Driver education, content language added.

Section 58: Examination subjects and locations; provisions for color blindness, disabled veterans language modified.

Section 59: Pupil transportation safety language added.

Section 60: Driver's manual; interaction with commercial motor vehicle language modified.

Section 61: Implied consent revocation language modified.

Section 62: Notification of conviction for violation by commercial driver language provided.

Section 63: Notification of suspension of license of commercial driver language provided.

Section 64: Endorsement language modified.

Section 65: Statewide transportation plan; priorities; schedule of expenditures language modified.

Section 66: Statewide freight and passenger rail plan language added.

Section 67: Transit service needs implementation plan language added.

Section 68: Annual transit report language added.

Section 69: Advisory committee on nonmotorized transportation language added.

Section 70: Out-of-service order language added.

Section 71: Powers, duties, reports, limitations language modified.

Section 72: Order language modified.

Section 73: Amount of penalty; considerations language modified.

Section 74: Petition; scope language modified.

Section 75: Household goods carrier language modified.

Section 76: Petition language modified.

Section 77: Enforcement powers language modified.

Section 78: Expenditures language modified.

Section 79: Exemption for airport language modified.

Section 80: Exemption for resorts, marinas, and houseboat rental companies language modified.

Section 81: Members, powers, and duties language modified.

Section 82: Patrol employees who are not Troopers language modified.

Section 83: Facility relocation costs language provided.

Section 84: Program evaluation language modified.

Section 85: Availability of light rail transit information language added.

Section 86: Safety regulation study language modified.

Section 87: Engine brakes; regulation by Minneapolis language added.

Section 88: Little Crow Transit Way language added.

Section 89: Highway changes; repealers; effective dates; revisor instructions language added.

Section 90: Right-of-way transferred to state rail bank language added.

Section 91: Bridge infrastructure planning language added.

Section 92: Creation of plan, reports, and assessments language provided.

Section 93: Report on Office of Pupil Transportation Safety language added.

Section 94: Complete streets language added.

Section 95: Appropriation language provided.

Section 96: Revisor's Instructions provided.

Section 97: Repealer provided.

ARTICLE 2 -- RAILWAY WALKWAY SAFETY

Section 1: Rail carrier walkways language modified.
Subdivision 1. Duty to provide walkways.
Subdivision 2. General requirements.
Subdivision 3. Allowances for unusual conditions.
Subdivision 4. Waiver of requirements.

Section 2: Violations and penalties language modified.
Subdivision 1. Violation.
Subdivision 2. Failure to correct.
Subdivision 3. Duties of attorney general.
Subdivision 4. Walkway orders.
Subdivision 5. Filing of complaints.

Section 3: Trespass; allowing animals on track exception language modified.

SNA 5/20/08