4E Relating to transportation

ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to the department of transportation (DOT) for multimodal systems including aeronautics, transit, passenger rail and freight, state roads for operations and maintenance, program planning and delivery, state road construction, highway debt service and statewide radio communications, for local roads including county state-aid roads, pedestrian, bike and safe routes to school, and municipal state aid roads, for agency management for
agency services, tort claims, and buildings, for certain transfers, specifying the state use of previous state roads construction appropriations and contingent appropriations;
appropriating money to the metropolitan council for transit purposes; appropriating money to the public safety department for administration and related services, to the
office of communications and for public safety support, administration and related services, the state patrol for patrolling highways, commercial vehicle enforcement and capitol security, driver and vehicle services, traffic safety and pipeline safety

ARTICLE 2 - TRANSPORTATION POLICY

Modifying certain provisions relating to transportation and public safety policies; modifying data classifications for disability certificate holders and construction project schedules data; providing for an appeal process for denial or revocation of a driveway permit by the commissioner of transportation (DOT); modifying various provisions impacting or enforced by the department of transportation relating to state bikeways, connections with other bikeways, the Mississippi River trail bikeway and the James L. Oberstar memorial bikeway; modifying certain provisions related to the corridors for commerce program; requiring the commissioner of transportation to use products made in America when possible; clarifying certain subcontracting goals for small targeted group business, veterans-owned small business and contract awards limitations; authorizing the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to enter into agreements with Indian tribal authorities for the awarding of tribal land highway construction contracts to Indian-owned contractors, specifying certain agreement content requirements; authorizing department of public safety deputy registrars and drivers license agents to retain driver records and documents in a secure electronic medium after a certain amount of time after transaction and according to commissioner standards; authorizing peace officers to stop motor vehicle drivers and issue citations for work zone violations within a certain period of time after violation occurrence; requiring motor vehicle drivers to move a lane over when passing parked utility company vehicles; modifying the definition of electronic message relating to traffic regulations; modifying motorcycle headlamp requirements to allow up to four headlamps; modifying certain provisions relating to inspection reports of commercial motor vehicles and passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicles; providing for proof of automobile insurance in electronic format; restricting law enforcement electronic device data access and specifying damage liability assumption; providing for and aerodynamic device exclusion for certain motor vehicle length limits; authorizing the commissioner of public safety to issue a nondomiciled commercial driver learners permit or nondomiciled commercial driver's licenses; requiring licenses to be clearly marked; modifying certain advertising along highways provisions; modifying certain commissioner of transportation duties; modifying grant eligibility requirements for the safe routes to school program; clarifying certain provisions in the local road improvement fund; requiring a minimum of two-person crews on class I or II railroad trains carrying freight; allowing exceptions; prescribing misdemeanor penalties; clarifying causes and types of damage for which railroads have responsibility; modifying and expanding certain provisions relating to damages caused by train or contents and reimbursements for response to train-related fires or other emergencies; prohibiting intrastate motor carriers and intrastate private carriers and transportation services from operating a commercial motor vehicle during a federal motor carrier out-of-service order; requiring utilities intending to place facilities across a railroad right-of-way to request railroad prior permission; specifying a procedure; allowing railroad objection and public utilities commission (PUC) intervention for resolution of differences; clarifying the certification requirement for overdimensional load escort drivers; increasing the metropolitan council transportation advisory board membership by adding an elected official from a city participating in the replacement service program; modifying a safety preparedness study by public safety relating to the transportation of oil and other hazardous materials; prohibiting parking signs from using the words handicap, disabled or disability, requiring use of the word accessible; authorizing the reconstruction of certain bridge approaches along trunk highway #23; authorizing St. Paul to restrict or prohibit engine brake use on motor vehicles on legislative route #392, also known as interstate highway #94 between Johnson Parkway and trunk highway #52; authorizing the removal of legislative route #275 in Lac qui Parle county and the alternative eminent domain damages appraisal petition authority with the office of administrative hearings; requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to report to the legislature on the use of tolling expansion to reduce congestion and raise revenue; authorizing a cost share policy for cooperative construction projects and maintenance responsibilities between the department of transportation (DOT) and local governments; authorizing the commissioner of public safety make available fingerprinting services to commercial truck drivers to obtain a hazardous materials endorsement
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