1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; authorizing sale and issuance of general 
1.3 	obligation bonds for local roads and bridges; appropriating money.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION FOR LOCAL BRIDGE REPLACEMENT AND 
1.6 	REHABILITATION.
 1.7 	$200,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds account in the state 
1.8 	transportation fund to the commissioner of transportation to match federal money and to 
1.9 	replace or rehabilitate local deficient bridges as provided in Minnesota Statutes, section 
1.10 	174.50. This appropriation is for the actual construction, reconstruction, and improvement 
1.11 	of local bridges, including design-build contracts and consultant usage to support these 
1.12 	activities. This includes the cost of actual payments to landowners for lands acquired for 
1.13 	highway rights-of-way, payments to lessees, interest subsidies, and relocation expenses. 
1.14 	The commissioner, in awarding grants under this appropriation, may establish priorities 
1.15 	according to the master bridge priority list.

1.16 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION FOR LOCAL ROAD IMPROVEMENT FUND 
1.17 	GRANTS.
 1.18 	$200,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds account in the state 
1.19 	transportation fund to the commissioner of transportation for: (1) construction and 
1.20 	reconstruction of local roads with statewide or regional significance under Minnesota 
1.21 	Statutes, section 174.52, subdivision 4, with priority given to projects that will expand the 
1.22 	state's ten-ton road system; and (2) grants to counties to assist in paying the costs of rural 
2.1 	road safety capital improvement projects on county state-aid highways under Minnesota 
2.2 	Statutes, section 174.52, subdivision 4a.

2.3 	Sec. 3. BOND AUTHORIZATION.
 2.4 	To provide the money appropriated in sections 1 and 2 from the bond proceeds 
2.5 	account, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue bonds of the 
2.6 	state in an amount up to $400,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect 
2.7 	prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota 
2.8 	Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7, at the times and in the amounts requested by the 
2.9 	commissioner of transportation.

2.10 	Sec. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.11 	Sections 1 to 3 are effective the day following final enactment.