1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to electric buses; requiring the purchase of electric buses by the 
1.3 	Metropolitan Council; appropriating money.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. METROPOLITAN COUNCIL; ELECTRIC BUS PURCHASES.
 1.6 	Beginning on the effective date of this act, any bus purchased by the Metropolitan 
1.7 	Council for Metro Transit bus service must operate solely on electricity provided by 
1.8 	rechargeable on-board batteries. The appropriation in section 2 must be used to pay the 
1.9 	incremental cost of buses that operate solely on electricity provided by rechargeable on-board 
1.10 	batteries over diesel-operated buses that are otherwise comparable in size, features, and 
1.11 	performance.

1.12 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment and 
1.13 	expires the day after the appropriation under section 2 has been spent or is canceled.

1.14 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 1.15 	(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 116C.779, subdivision 1, paragraph (j), 
1.16 	$4,100,000 in fiscal year 2022 is appropriated from the renewable development account 
1.17 	under Minnesota Statutes, section 116C.779, subdivision 1, to the Metropolitan Council to 
1.18 	defray the cost of purchasing electric buses, as described in section 1.
1.19 	(b) This appropriation does not cancel and is available until there is insufficient money 
1.20 	remaining to defray the cost of purchasing electric buses, as described in section 1. Any 
2.1 	remaining money cancels back to the renewable development account under Minnesota 
2.2 	Statutes, section 116C.779, subdivision 1.

2.3 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.