Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF0048

Providing for funding of transportation projectsARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION
FINANCEEstablishing a multimodal transportation fund to be used for
+metropolitan transit and statewide transportation purposes, creating a
department +of transportation multimodal account within the fund to be available
to +the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for state transportation and
nonmetropolitan area transit assistance costs and a transit account +to be
available to the metropolitan council for transit operations and +capital within
the metropolitan area, specifying certain account crediting and use requirements
and certain biennial budget document requirements for +submittal to the
legislature, requiring a certain percentage of money available in+ the
transportation multimodal account to be credited to a small cities +municipal
account for distribution to certain small cities; modifying the +apportionment
of the county state aid highway fund to counties, providing for an apportionment
sum and an excess sum; providing for commissioner +apportionment to certain
cities of money in the small cities municipal account +based on municipal street
lane miles, requiring notice of amounts to the +commissioner of finance for
payment purposes, requiring use of the money for +establishment, location,
construction, improvement and maintenance of streets within+ the cities,
authorizing use of a portion of the money on state trunk or county state aid
highways +within the cities upon commissioner consent; increasing the gasoline
and special+ fuels tax rates, requiring annual commissioner of revenue inflation
+adjustments, requiring crediting of the tax rate adjustments to the trunk
highway +debt service account in the trunk highway fund; modifying the
allocation +of motor vehicle sales tax revenues, requiring the crediting of a
certain +percentage to the multimodal transportation fund; appropriating money
to the +commissioner of transportation and authorizing the issuance of state
trunk highway +bonds for the construction, reconstruction and improvement of
trunk highways, +requiring use of half of the proceeds on projects to relieve
bottlenecks or at +risk interregional corridors in the metropolitan area and the
other half +for at risk interregional corridors outside the metropolitan area,
authorizing +use of a certain percentage for program delivery provided by state
employees ARTICLE 2 - METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATIONDesignating the counties of
Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin,+ Isanti, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne,
Washington and Wright as the metropolitan transportation area and regulating
highway spending in the area; +imposing additional sales and motor vehicle
excise sales taxes in the area, +providing for collection by the commissioner of
revenue; establishing a +metropolitan transportation fund for deposit of amounts
collected, authorizing use+ by the metropolitan council for acquisition of
buses, highway shoulder +improvements and other capital expenses relating to
transit and by the +commissioner of transportation (DOT) for highway system
improvements in the +metropolitan transportation area, authorizing the
metropolitan council to provide +grants to the commissioner for implementation
of transit capital improvements +outside the metropolitan area but inside the
metropolitan transportation area; +voter approval requirement and sunset (ra)