Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF0566

Relating to transportation; creating a transit fund; changing the name of
the
greater Minnesota transit fund and metropolitan area transit fund to the
greater Minnesota transit account and the metropolitan area account; modifying
the percentage of motor vehicle sales tax revenues required to be deposited in
the highway user tax distribution and the metropolitan area and greater
Minnesota transit accounts; defining metropolitan transportation area and
imposing a sales and use tax in the area; providing for tax collection; creating
the metropolitan transportation sales tax account for the use of the
metropolitan council, for capital and operating costs for bus, rail and
paratransit service, to provide implementation of the 2030 transportation policy
plan and for annual distribution to counties; specifying purposes for county use
of distributed funds, specifying eligibility and requiring the metropolitan
council to report on uses of the money; specifying instructions to the revisor
of statutes
(me)