1E Requiring trunk highway bridge improvement plan program requirements to include safety concerns for pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and other roadway users, crash reports and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessibility requirements, requiring funded bridge projects to include bicycle and pedestrian accommodations under certain conditions, requiring pedestrian facilities to be compliant with ADA, specifying commissioner of transportation (DOT) report inclusion requirement; removing the expiration date for the appointment of a corporate deputy registrar and commissioner of public safety's duty to appoint a replacement; removing an income qualification from ability to retrieve contents from impounded motor vehicles and retrieve impounded motor vehicles without charge; expanding conditions for towing certain motor vehicles at expired parking meters; defining enhanced drivers license and enhanced identification card, specifying individuals not eligible for enhanced drivers licenses, specifying application format, fees and application content, establishing certain security measures for enhanced drivers license and enhanced identification card holders, specifying requirements relating to photographs or electronically produced images on cards; eliminating cumulative drivers license suspensions for driving without a license violations, imposing a misdemeanor penalty for driving after suspension for failure to appear in court or pay fines; expanding the driving while impaired (DWI) and (DUI), motor vehicle ignition interlock device pilot program statewide and extending the duration, applying pilot project components to impaired DWI and DUI drivers, underage drinking and driving and criminal vehicular homicide or operation; requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to include in the next revision of the statewide transportation plan a study on the feasibility of establishing commuter transit service in the Little Crow transit way between Willmar and Minneapolis; prescribing and assigning passenger rail responsibilities and duties to commissioner of transportation (DOT), allowing application for federal, state, local, regional and private funding, specifying exercise of powers and funding; requiring commissioner of transportation (DOT) to apply for federal grants for railroad safety technology funding available to state governments, requiring commissioner to prioritize grant requests and solicit grant requests, requiring a percentage nonfederal match; requiring commissioner of public safety to study the mandatory 24-hour use of vehicle lighting on public highways; requiring a passenger rail report; requiring DOT to apply for federal funding for a Minnesota to Chicago high-speed passenger rail line connecting Chicago, La Crescent, Winona, Red Wing and the Union Depot concourse multimodal transit hub in St. Paul; requiring commissioner of public safety to enter into an agreement with secretary of the federal department of homeland security to develop an enhanced Minnesota drivers license and an enhanced Minnesota identification card; repealing towing four-hour waiting period and towing allowed
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