HF 4044

Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)

Posted on 03/18/2026 11:48 a.m.

A bill for an act
relating to transportation; appropriating money for highway safety improvements
in Dakota County; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1. new text begin COUNTY STATE-AID HIGHWAY 46 SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS;
APPROPRIATION.
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new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin Appropriation. new text end

new text begin $18,650,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds
fund to the commissioner of transportation for a grant to Dakota County to improve safety
and capacity on County State-Aid Highway 46 (160th Street/Brandel Avenue) from marked
Trunk Highway 3 east through the marked Trunk Highway 52 interchange to County Road
48. The project will reconstruct County State-Aid Highway 46 from a two-lane highway to
a divided four-lane highway from marked Trunk Highway 3 to the marked Trunk Highway
52 interchange to County Road 48 in the cities of Coates and Rosemount and Empire
Township. This appropriation may be used for preliminary and final design, and to engineer,
acquire right of way and temporary and permanent easements, inspect, construct, and
reconstruct County State-Aid Highway 46 and other roads to support the completion of the
project, including traffic control, environmental cleanup and mitigation, multipurpose
pedestrian and bicycle facilities, public utility relocation and storm water management.
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new text begin Subd. 2. new text end

new text begin Bond sale. new text end

new text begin To provide the money appropriated in this section from the bond
proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue bonds of
the state in an amount up to $18,650,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect
prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota
Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
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new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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