4E Relating to transportation

ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION POLICY

Modifying or adding provisions to highways, motor vehicles, vehicle registration, fuel tax agreement fees, traffic regulations and surcharges, vehicle parking ordinances, commercial vehicles and vehicles combinations and permits, design build construction, pupil transportation and school bus drivers, drivers licenses, driver training, motor fuels, the state patrol, transit and paratransit planning, urban partnership agreement implementation, the transfer of right of way to state rail bank, nonmotorized transportation, transportation finance, and other transportation related programs or practices; repealing surcharge for special veteran license plates; requiring studies and reports; classifying data for design build transportation project audio recordings of meetings with proposers; authorizing the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to charge user fees to single occupant motor vehicle (automobile) operators or owners using certain designated dynamic shoulder lanes high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes; requiring consultation with the metropolitan council; establishing an I-35W HOV and dynamic shoulder lane account and prescribing uses, specifying certain corridor noise mitigation plan requirements by the commissioner and the metropolitan council; allowing the commissioner to designate freeway dynamic shoulder lanes; requiring a report to the legislature and annually on the urban partnership agreement; exempting certain two wheel motorized vehicles from wheelage taxes imposed by counties within the metropolitan area; requiring medium speed electric vehicles to be registered and titled, identifying roads medium speed electric vehicles may operate; requiring compensation for certain technical review committee members; modifying provisions relating to design build requests for proposals, scoring, project awards and protests; requiring disclosure of reasons for change in stipulated fee; requiring rejection of nonresponsive proposals by the technical review committee; requiring commissioner consideration of certain insurance standards when reviewing data and information for the development of safety improvements for trunk highways and state aid projects; modifying the definitions of passenger automobile, special mobile equipment and commercial motor vehicle; reclassifying certain trucks and vans for motor vehicle registration purposes; defining spotter trucks and regulating use; modifying registration and use of special mobile equipment; requiring the commissioner in cooperation with the metropolitan council to study possible adoption of a complete streets policy, requiring report to legislature; requiring the display of license plates on concrete pumps and street sweeping vehicles and specifying tax on nonregistered vehicles; permitting sale of impounded vehicles and contents after voluntary title transfer; providing for written notice of impound, right to reclaim contents, and waiver of rights; establishing right to retrieve contents without charge in certain cases; providing for auction or sale of contents of an abandoned or unauthorized vehicle under certain conditions; limiting impound lot operator deficiency claims; providing for permit for oversize and overweight tow trucks in certain cases; exempting nonprofit disaster response vehicles from the motor vehicle sales tax and registration fees; authorizing certain state hospitals and institutions for persons who are mentally ill and developmentally disabled and county social service agencies providing child and vulnerable adult protection services to operate vehicles exempt from payment of registration tax and fees and without the required identification on the sides of the vehicle; regulating display of vehicle license plates; requiring vehicles displaying tax exempt plates to have vehicle identification markings; allowing issuance of multiple sets of motor vehicle license plates for physically disabled persons upon approval of the state board on disability; allowing use of a temporary permit while awaiting delivery of license plates and eliminating the use of special plates; authorizing the design of special bronze star veterans and silver star veterans motor vehicle license plates by the commissioner of veterans affairs; establishing sesquicentennial special motor vehicle license plates and American Red Cross special license plates; modifying the USDOT number registration process and use for certain trucks and truck-tractors and clarifying certain exemptions; reallocating proceeds from fuel license and decal fees collected since 2005 under the international fuel tax agreement compact to the vehicles services operating account in the special revenue fund; modifying certain school bus definitions and drivers license requirements; modifying the definition of implement of husbandry (farm vehicles); providing for certain size, weight, and load restrictions; specifying certain operation requirements and modifying driving exceptions for driving left of roadway center; conforming hazardous materials and school bus endorsement provisions to the federal definition; providing an operator drivers license exemption for commercial motor vehicles operated on behalf of the federal government; specifying certain notification requirements; requiring motor vehicle commercial operators to notify the department of public safety division of driver and vehicle services of convictions in conformance with federal regulation; requiring notification to employer of conviction for violation and license suspension for violations; making motor carrier out of service orders conform to federal regulation for enforcement purposes; making monetary penalties for railroad-highway grade crossings of motor carrier violations conform to federal law; conforming state trooper law enforcement powers and duties to federal regulation regarding uniform out of service criteria; requiring the commissioner of public safety to include pupil transportation safety laws in the drivers manual and license examination; providing certain minimum requirements for cities enacting ordinances for a long term disability parking permit program; modifying brake requirements for trailers or semitrailers and modifying certain gross vehicle weight restrictions; modifying certain truck weight enforcement operation requirements and modifying the gross vehicle weight requirement; modifying weight restrictions for heating fuel vehicles; modifying the sale authority for nonoxygenated gasoline for resorts, marinas and houseboat rental companies; providing eligibility for facility relocation costs for certain district heating and cooling nonprofit corporations to prevent interference with public light rail projects public rights of way; creating the office of pupil transportation safety as a section under the division of state patrol in the department of public safety; requiring the commissioner of public transportation safety to designate the director of pupil transportation, modifying duties and providing for staff, report requirement to the legislature; appropriating money to the commissioner for implementation; establishing qualifications for type III school bus drivers; modifying certain vehicle licensing requirements; prescribing criminal penalties; authorizing certain licensing exceptions for type III school bus drivers under certain limited conditions; authorizing the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to adopt rules; increasing the age requirement for motor vehicle operators to restrain child passengers with an appropriate child restraint system; requiring the fine to be waived under certain conditions; removing the exemption for taxis, limousine and buses for hire; making seat belt use violations a primary offense by authorizing peace officers to issue citations without observing a moving violation, expanding seat belt use requirements and providing a surcharge for traffic offenders, exceptions, defining pickup truck and van, modifying certain seat belt exemptions; specifying the disbursement of the surcharges by the commissioner of finance; requiring the uniform traffic ticket to contain a notice of the criminal and traffic surcharge; authorizing tow trucks to exceed certain length and weight limitations under certain conditions; authorizing operation of certain combinations with gross vehicle weight up to a certain amount on certain highways with special three unit vehicle permit; authorizing certain trucks to qualify for special canola hauling products vehicle permits; specifying certain restrictions; imposing annual permit fees and appropriating the fee into the trunk highway fund; authorizing the suspension of a drivers license for paying or attempting to pay motor vehicle taxes or fees by means of a dishonored personal (bad) check issued to the state or a deputy registrar; imposing penalties for driving after suspension for failure to appear in court or pay fines; requiring the commissioner of transportation or deputy commissioner to be a licensed professional engineer; requiring the commissioner to prioritize for state funding certain transportation projects in the metropolitan area awarded federal funding through the federal surface transportation program, catastrophic event exception; requiring the commissioner to develop and implement a transit service needs implementation plan containing a goal of meeting certain percentages of unmet transit service needs by certain dates, specifying plan requirements; requiring legislative report on transit services outside the metropolitan area and requiring metropolitan council assistance for reporting; requiring the council to include an assessment of progress toward meeting the American with disabilities (ADA) paratransit ridership needs identified by the council in the program evaluation and specifying assessment coverage requirements; requiring the commissioner and the metropolitan council to create the required reports and assessments within current appropriation levels; authorizing the commissioner to establish an advisory committee on nonmotorized transportation to make recommendations on safety, education and development programs; modifying requirements for motor carriers engaged in intrastate commerce; modifying petition requirements for permit carriers; modifying requirements for household goods carriers; modifying motor vehicle damage disclosure requirements; modifying metropolitan council financial assistance provisions relating to the replacement service program, defining off peak hours; expanding the transit taxing district to encompass the seven county metropolitan area, sunsetting the existing safety regulation study on bicycling; eliminating the prohibition by the department of transportation, metropolitan council and county regional railroad authorities to study and plan activities for the Dan Patch commuter rail line; requiring reconstruction or improvement documentation of the Lafayette bridge segment of highway #52 including bridge footings to accommodate future transit (light rail transit LRT) implementation; requiring the commissioner of transportation to issue necessary permits to the city of Rochester to complete construction of a new interchange at marked trunk highway 52 and a local city street, assigning costs; requiring the commissioner to issue special 2008 U.S. Women's Open special temporary permits for display on passenger vehicle; authorizing the city of Minneapolis to restrict or prohibit the use of an engine brake on motor vehicles along a certain segment of legislative route #107 (I-394); authorizing the commissioner to award a road construction project contract for a certain state project located on truck highway #53 and certain existing intersecting and adjoining local roads, federal aid highway funding requirement, specifying certain local approval requirements from the governing bodies of St. Louis county and the cities of Duluth and Hermantown; transferring jurisdiction of legislative routes #295 and #335 to the city of St. Peter after receipt of a notice of transfer by the commissioner of transportation (DOT); transferring a trunk highway right-of-way in Otter Tail county to the state rail bank, providing a land parcel description; repealing certain provisions relating to a surcharge for special veterans license plates, for the design build award alternative process for certain contracts, certain speed and brake provisions for implements of husbandry, the requirement for the commissioner of public safety to adopt rules for instruction on the safety of school children, the extensions of authority for a permit carriers approval process, and additions to transit taxing districts

ARTICLE 2 - TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT

Modifying provisions relating to the flexible highway account, defining excess sum; creating the metropolitan routes of regional significance account in the state treasury for allocation to metropolitan counties to assist in paying the costs of construction, reconstruction or maintenance of county highways with statewide or regional significance not fully funded through other state, federal or local funding sources; modifying certain prior transportation provisions enacted in 2008; extending availability of the value capture study appropriation; modifying certain requirements for the trunk highway debt service surcharge; clarifying and modifying certain state road construction appropriation requirements; modifying the effective date of additional motor vehicle registration taxes; modifying the allocation of motor vehicle lease sales tax revenue; modifying the definition of minimum guarantee county in a joint powers agreement and modifying the effective date for metropolitan transportation area participating county joint powers agreement prior to tax imposition requirements; modifying certain prohibitions for county regional railroad authorities from contributing more than a certain percentage of the capital costs on light rail transit (LRT) or commuter rail projects and the effective date
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