Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF0251

Relating to transportation; reducing the motor vehicle registration tax rate on
passenger automobiles, providing for a flat rate; establishing the Minnesota
transportation trust fund and allocating money to the fund from the registration
tax and the sales tax on motor vehicles; establishing county and municipal
transportation accounts within the fund, providing for certain allocations by
the commissioner of finance and distributions by the commissioner of
transportation (DOT) for highway and transit purposes; specifying certain
appropriation recommendations list preparation requirements of the commissioner;
modifying the allocation of revenue from the sales tax on motor vehicles,
providing for allocation to the trust fund; requiring appropriations for the
operations of the state patrol to be from the general fund, excepting commercial
motor vehicle inspection and enforcement activities; proposing an amendment to
the Minnesota constitution, article XIV to dedicate motor vehicle sales tax
proceeds to the transportation trust fund for highway and transit purposes (ra)