Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: HF2189

hf2189 FOURTH ENGROSSMENT Omnibus transportation finance bill appropriating
money for the department of transportation and other agencies, and proposing
constitutional amendments to dedicate motor vehicle sales tax revenues to the
highway user tax distribution fund. ARTICLE 1 TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS
Section 1: Transportation appropriations summary provided. Sec. 2:
Transportation appropriations summary detailed by fund, including: aeronautics,
transit, railroads, motor carriers, local roads, state roads, buildings,
transfers, contingent appropriation, and use of state road construction
appropriations. Sec. 3: Metropolitan council transit appropriations summary
provided. Sec. 4: Public safety appropriations summary provided. Sec. 5: General
contingent accounts appropriations summary provided. Sec. 6: Tort claims
provided. Sec. 7: Fiscal year 2001 appropriations transfers detailed. Sec. 8:
Office of pipeline safety assessments approved. Sec. 9: Certain one-time
appropriations provided. Sec. 10: DOT District 1 construction budget reduced.
Sec. 11: Port of Minneapolis zoning restrictions provided. Sec. 12: Town bridges
and culverts engineering cost financial assistance eligibility amounts provided.
Sec. 13: Trailer weight tax clarified. Sec. 14: Operating assistance for Duluth
transit authority clarified. Sec. 15: Highway maintenance billing allowances
provided. Sec. 16: Language updated relating to snowmobile gasoline consumption.
Sec. 17: Metropolitan council transit appropriation for 2002 eliminated.ARTICLE
2 TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENTSection 1: State highway bond proceed transfer
allowed. Sec. 2: Use of unmarked government vehicles by investigative staff of
the gambling control board allowed. Sec. 3: Language relating to leasing
procedures updated. Sec. 4: Trunk highway construction bids allowed to be placed
on the Internet. Sec. 5: Electronic furnishing of securities provided. Sec. 6:
Lowest responsible bidder procedures clarified. Sec. 7: Bid record Internet
posting allowed. Sec. 8: Interregional corridor development funding provided.
Sec. 9: Reconveyance of property to former owner authorized with consent of
owner. Sec. 10: Disaster account language updated. Sec. 11: Disaster account
language updated. Sec. 12: Bridge upgrade assistance detailed. Sec. 13: State
highway bond proceeds used to purchase property payment procedures provided, and
related terms defined. Sec. 14: Vehicle registration fee exemption provided for
unmarked vehicles used by investigative staff of gambling control board. Sec.
15: Motor vehicle registration renewal filing fee increased and dealer retention
provided. Sec. 16: Semitrailer surge brake specifications established. Sec. 17:
State fund spending on light rail transit study prohibited. Sec. 18: Notice to
legislature of spending towards high-speed rail studies required. Sec. 19: Draft
environmental impact statements included on reports to commmissioner. Sec. 20:
Major transportation project definition modified. Sec. 21: Commissioner given
power to purchase land and erect communications towers. Sec. 22: Trunk highway
fund fee deposit provided. Sec. 23: Commuter rail facility fund expenditure
provided. Sec. 24: Quiet zones established. Sec. 25: Transit lease disposition
permitted. Sec. 26: General fund distribution figures modified. Sec. 27: Public
safety officer definition clarified. Sec. 28: Transportation revolving loan fund
related definitions modified, purpose clarified, and loan account established.
Various related procedures detailed. Sec. 29: Claims for losses involving
recreational motor vehicles within the right-of-way of a road except the
municipality is liable for conduct entitling a trespasser to damages. Sec. 30:
Transportation advisory board established. Sec. 31: Expenditure of state funds
for light rail studies prohibited. Sec. 32: Special taxing district for light
rail transit established and necessary details provided. Sec. 33: "Facility,"
"land area," and "net tax capacity" defined. Sec. 34: Service charge imposition
allowed. Sec. 35: Performance-based funding program for certain providers
recipient payment percentage reduced. Sec. 36: Laws amended to reflect changes
in appropriations. Sec. 37: Bus transit ways study allowed. Sec. 38: 2002
highway user tax distribution fund appropriation eliminated. Sec. 39: Tower
erection restrictions provided. Sec. 40: Metropolitan council restrictions
provided. Sec. 41: Hiawatha Avenue light rail transit cost calculation provided.
Sec. 42: Trunk highway 62 construction project report required. Sec. 43:
Constitutional amendment proposed to require 60 percent of the proceeds from
taxes on the sale of new and used motor vehicles to be deposited in the highway
user tax distribution fund. Sec. 44: Constitutional amendment submitted to
voters in 2002. Sec. 45: Constitutional amendment proposed. Sec. 46: Amendment
submission to voters required. AE