1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; specifying limit on use of trunk highway fund for historic 
1.3 	state bridge projects; appropriating money;proposing coding for new law in 
1.4 	Minnesota Statutes, chapter 161.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. [161.0815] RESTRICTION ON FUNDING FOR HISTORIC BRIDGES 
1.7 	ON STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM.
1.8 	(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the commissioner must not expend from 
1.9 	the trunk highway fund more than 75 percent of the state share of the project cost for 
1.10 	maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or reconstruction of a historic bridge on the state highway 
1.11 	system. The remainder of the state share of the project cost must be expended from the 
1.12 	general fund.
1.13 	(b) As part of each biennial budget submission to the legislature, the commissioner must:
1.14 	(1) specify the historic bridge projects on the state highway system that are likely to be 
1.15 	funded within that biennium; and
1.16 	(2) request the general fund appropriation necessary for the bridge projects in accordance 
1.17 	with paragraph (a).

1.18 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 1.19 	$....... in fiscal year 2023 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of 
1.20 	transportation for maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or reconstruction of historic bridges 
1.21 	on the state highway system. This is a onetime appropriation.