Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF1276

3E Relating to transportation; appropriating money to commissioner of
transportation (DOT) for multimodal systems, airport development and assistance,
aviation support and services, transit, freight, state roads for infrastructure
investment support, state road construction, highway debt service,
infrastructure operations and maintenance, electronic communications, county and
municipal state aids, general support and services, for certain transfers with
the approval of commissioner of finance, for the use of state road construction
appropriations and for the transfer of funds for certain contingent
appropriations, to the metropolitan council for bus transit and rail operations,
to commissioner of public safety for certain administration and related
services, for the office of communications, public safety support services, for
payment of public safety officer survivor benefits, soft body armor, for
transfer to the trunk highway fund, for technical support services, to the state
patrol for patrolling highways, commercial vehicle enforcement and capitol
security, for drivers and vehicles services and for traffic and pipeline safety;
providing a contingency for state airport fund remaining balances for airport
development and assistance; requiring commissioner to allocate appropriations in
a way to maximize available federal money; authorizing and providing for certain
fund transfers for general contingent accounts and the payment of tort claims;
prohibiting trunk highway fund use for gubernatorial office personnel costs
payment; requiring appropriations disadvantaged business enterprise program
compliance; increasing a prior transit appropriation; reducing a prior
appropriation for bridge collapse and other highway construction projects;
authorizing the metropolitan council to transfer to the transit operating budget
certain amounts from the metropolitan livable communities fund accounts and
certain balances in the fund to cover transit deficits and authorizing the
council to transfer a certain amount from the right-of-way loan acquisition fund
to cover deficits, requiring a certain amount of council tax revenue to be used
for metropolitan bus transit operations, requiring the council to use the
maximum feasible and allowable federal funding allowed for metropolitan transit
preventive maintenance and capital costs

ARTICLE 2 - TRUNK HIGHWAY
BONDS

Appropriating money to department of transportation (DOT) and providing
for the sale of state bonds for trunk highway interchanges construction
promoting economic development and employment and traffic congestion relief and
safety

ARTICLE 3 - TRANSPORTATION FINANCE

Requiring the road or transit
authority to consult with certain affected
businesses concerning the issue of
business signs; designating an individual to serve as a business liaison between
the road or transit authority and affected businesses; specifying business
liaison duties; prohibiting department of transportation (DOT) trunk highway
fund expenditure for gubernatorial office personnel costs; increasing the
municipal state-aid street fund set aside amount for DOT administrative costs;
providing for the establishment of the Stillwater lift bridge endowment account
for operations and routine maintenance of the lift bridge, providing for funding
sources, requiring an annual appropriation to commissioner for transportation
(DOT), providing for demolition under certain conditions, requiring audits by
the legislative auditor and legislative reports; requiring motor vehicle service
fees for leased vehicles, physically disabled persons plates, collector plates,
replacement plates and intercity bus registration special plates to be credited
to department of public safety vehicle services operating account; "Kathryn
Swanson Seat Belt Safety Act"; making passenger motor vehicle seat belt use
violation a primary offense in all seating positions regardless of age, defining
certain vehicles, modifying certain exemptions, making conforming changes for
certain instruction permit and provisional license holders; requiring commercial
drivers license records to reflect violations committed in commercial motor
vehicles; authorizing commissioner of transportation (DOT) to use the
design-build method of contracting in connection with planning, design,
development and construction of a high-speed rail passenger line connecting
Chicago, La Crescent, Winona, Red Wing and the Twin Cities and requiring
commissioner to include in the statewide freight and passenger rail plan a study
of an extension of the high-speed rail line between St. Paul and Minneapolis;
requiring the metropolitan council to transfer a certain amount of funds from
the livable communities demonstration account to the local housing incentives
account; authorizing the metropolitan council to levy a transit tax for the
metropolitan transit system, specifying metropolitan county (Anoka, Carver,
Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington counties) applicability;
expanding a prior appropriation use to include rail park and ride lots;
prohibiting the metropolitan council from increasing regular-route or metro
mobility fares; requiring metropolitan council to convey the Apple Valley
transit station and real property located in Dakota county to the Minnesota
Valley transit authority for carrying out the governmental program and public
purposes of the transit station; requiring metropolitan council to establish a
discount passes pilot program and policies for charitable organizations for
homeless persons; providing for levy adjustment (reduction) and metropolitan
livable communities fund transfer reductions under condition of excess motor
vehicle sales tax revenues; requiring commissioner of transportation (DOT) to
issue permits to Rochester allowing city completion of a new interchange at
trunk highway #52 and 65th street NW; authorizing and providing for commissioner
of transportation (DOT) to conduct a design-build contracting pilot program to
authorize and evaluate use of design-build method of contracting by
municipalities for transportation projects, requiring technical review committee
municipal appointment, requiring phase one design-build RFQ and phase two
design-build RFP, specifying contract award procedure, allowing municipal
low-bid design-build process and requiring a legislative report; prohibiting DOT
seasonal vehicle weight restrictions imposition on trunk highway #11 between
Baudette and International Falls
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