1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; appropriating money for bus service from Hastings to 
1.3 	Minneapolis-St. Paul during bridge construction; amending Laws 2009, chapter 
1.4 	36, article 1, section 3, subdivision 3.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Laws 2009, chapter 36, article 1, section 3, subdivision 3, is amended to read:

1.7	Subd. 3.State Roads

1.8	(a) Infrastructure Operations and Maintenance
		251,643,000
		245,892,000
	
1.9 	The base appropriation for fiscal years 2012 
1.10 	and 2013 is $257,395,000 for each year.

1.11	(b) Infrastructure Investment and Planning

1.12	(1) Infrastructure Investment Support
		201,461,000
		196,935,000
	
1.13 	The base appropriation for fiscal years 2012 
1.14 	and 2013 is $205,988,000 for each year.
1.15 	$266,000 the first year and $266,000 the 
1.16 	second year are available for grants to 
1.17 	metropolitan planning organizations outside 
1.18 	the seven-county metropolitan area.
1.19 	$75,000 the first year and $75,000 the 
1.20 	second year are for a transportation research 
1.21 	contingent account to finance research 
1.22 	projects that are reimbursable from the 
2.1 	federal government or from other sources. 
2.2 	If the appropriation for either year is 
2.3 	insufficient, the appropriation for the other 
2.4 	year is available for it.
2.5 	$600,000 the first year and $600,000 
2.6 	the second year are available for grants 
2.7 	for transportation studies outside the 
2.8 	metropolitan area to identify critical 
2.9 	concerns, problems, and issues. These 
2.10 	grants are available (1) to regional 
2.11 	development commissions; (2) in regions 
2.12 	where no regional development commission 
2.13 	is functioning, to joint powers boards 
2.14 	established under agreement of two or 
2.15 	more political subdivisions in the region to 
2.16 	exercise the planning functions of a regional 
2.17 	development commission; and (3) in regions 
2.18 	where no regional development commission 
2.19 	or joint powers board is functioning, to the 
2.20 	department's district office for that region.

2.21	(2) State Road Construction
		551,300,000
		598,700,000
	
2.22 	The base appropriation for fiscal years 2012 
2.23 	and 2013 is $635,000,000 for each year.
2.24 	It is estimated that these appropriations will 
2.25 	be funded as follows:

2.26	Appropriations by Fund
	
2.27
2.28	Federal Highway 
Aid
	301,100,000 
	388,500,000
	
2.29	Highway User Taxes
	250,200,000
	210,200,000
	
2.30 	The commissioner of transportation shall 
2.31 	notify the chairs and ranking minority 
2.32 	members of the senate and house of 
2.33 	representatives committees with jurisdiction 
2.34 	over transportation finance of any significant 
3.1 	events that should cause these estimates to 
3.2 	change.
3.3 	This appropriation is for the actual 
3.4 	construction, reconstruction, and 
3.5 	improvement of trunk highways, including 
3.6 	design-build contracts and consultant usage 
3.7 	to support these activities. This includes the 
3.8 	cost of actual payment to landowners for 
3.9 	lands acquired for highway rights-of-way, 
3.10 	payment to lessees, interest subsidies, and 
3.11 	relocation expenses.
3.12 	The commissioner may spend up to $500,000 
3.13 	of trunk highway funds in fiscal year 2011 
3.14 	to pay the operating costs of bus service 
3.15 	between Hastings and Minneapolis-St. Paul 
3.16 	to mitigate the traffic impacts of the project 
3.17 	involving construction of a bridge crossing 
3.18 	the Mississippi River in the city of Hastings 
3.19 	on marked Trunk Highway 61.
3.20 	The commissioner shall expend up to 
3.21 	one-half of one percent of the federal 
3.22 	appropriations under this paragraph as grants 
3.23 	to opportunity industrialization centers and 
3.24 	other nonprofit job training centers for 
3.25 	job training programs related to highway 
3.26 	construction.
3.27 	The commissioner may transfer up to 
3.28 	$15,000,000 each year to the transportation 
3.29 	revolving loan fund.
3.30 	The commissioner may receive money 
3.31 	covering other shares of the cost of 
3.32 	partnership projects. These receipts are 
3.33 	appropriated to the commissioner for these 
3.34 	projects.

3.35	(3) Highway Debt Service
		101,170,000
		173,400,000
	
4.1 	$86,517,000 the first year and $157,304,000 
4.2 	the second year are for transfer to the state 
4.3 	bond fund. If this appropriation is insufficient 
4.4 	to make all transfers required in the year for 
4.5 	which it is made, the commissioner of finance 
4.6 	shall notify the Committee on Finance of 
4.7 	the senate and the Committee on Ways and 
4.8 	Means of the house of representatives of 
4.9 	the amount of the deficiency and shall then 
4.10 	transfer that amount under the statutory open 
4.11 	appropriation. Any excess appropriation 
4.12 	cancels to the trunk highway fund.

4.13	(c) Electronic Communications
		5,177,000
		5,177,000

4.14	Appropriations by Fund
	
4.15	General
	9,000
	9,000
	
4.16	Trunk Highway
	5,168,000
	5,168,000
	
4.17 	The general fund appropriation is to equip 
4.18 	and operate the Roosevelt signal tower for 
4.19 	Lake of the Woods weather broadcasting.

4.20 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2010.