Session Year 2011, Special Session 1

Bill Name: SF0004

Relating to transportation

ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION
APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation
(DOT) for multimodal systems, airport development and assistance, aviation
support and services, transit, passenger rail, freight, state roads operations
and maintenance and program planning and delivery, state road construction,
highway debt service, electronic communications, local roads, county and
municipal state aids, agency management, services, and buildings; authorizing
DOT to make certain fund transfers, specifying use of state road construction
appropriations and allowing a contingent appropriation; appropriating money to
the metropolitan council for bus transit, to the commissioner of public safety
for administration and related purposes, the office of communications, public
safety support, technology and support services, state patrol, commercial
vehicle enforcement, capitol security, the vehicle crimes unit, driver and
vehicle services, driver services, and traffic and pipeline safety; authorizing
the commissioner of public safety to make certain fund transfers; authorizing
and providing for tort claims payment; extending previous state road
appropriations with reduced funding

ARTICLE 2 - METROPOLITAN TRANSIT
FINANCE

Relating to grant application and awards and the grant evaluation and
ranking system (GEARS) committee; permitting the counties transit improvement
board to allocate funds to the metropolitan council for bus operations, which
would be in addition to funds provided to the metropolitan council for light
rail transit, bus rapid transit, and commuter rail service; requiring the joint
powers board to allocate a certain percentage of the net cost of operations for
transit ways in receipt of metropolitan sales tax funds through an operating
grant agreement; requiring the council to expend funds within counties in the
metropolitan transportation area and specifying the expenditure to not prevent
council grant awards for capital and operating assistance for transit ways and
park-and-ride facilities; establishing a priority of fund uses for revenue
allocation with payment of debt service necessary for the fiscal year on bonds
or other obligations issued prior to January 2011; authorizing the council to
issue certificates of indebtedness, bonds, and obligations not to exceed a
certain amount for capital expenditures as prescribed in the council transit
capital improvement program and related costs

ARTICLE 3 - TRANSPORTATION
DEVELOPMENT

Modifying certain provisions relating to detailed capital budget
submission requirements; creating the trunk highway economic development
account for construction, reconstruction, and improvement funding for
metropolitan and regional districts; modifying the municipal state-aid street
fund accruals estimate receipts calculation; modifying the motor vehicle
technology surcharge; modifying motor vehicle title fee amounts by adding a
surcharge to be credited to the driver and vehicle services technology account
and the drivers license application fees by adding a surcharge; expanding the
fixed guideway investment and financial plan reporting provisions

ARTICLE 4 -
EFFECTIVE DATE

Specifying a retroactive effective date in relation to prior
second judicial district appropriations
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