Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF1456

E Relating to transportation; authorizing road authorities by agreement to
advance funds to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to expedite
development of interregional transportation corridors; requiring and providing
for commissioner repayment of the advanced amount under terms of the agreement,
authorizing the agreement to provide for payment of interest on the amounts,
specifying a maximum interest rate and total payment amount; making optional the
requirement for the commissioner to construct a public safety radio
communications system, requiring the commissioner to annually publish a list of
state owned tower sites available to commercial wireless service providers and
other tower owners for installation of equipment on a first come first served
basis, prohibiting commissioner agreements granting exclusive use of towers;
modifying the definition of borrower under the transportation revolving loan
fund, eliminating references to the trunk highway, county state aid highway and
municipal state aid street revolving loan accounts; modifying the purposes of
the loan fund, authorizing use for maintenance and operation facilities;
establishing a state funds general account in the fund for transportation
projects eligible under state law, authorizing establishment of other accounts
in the fund as necessary for management and administration; appropriating money
in the fund to the public facilities authority in lieu of the commissioner;
eliminating the authority to transfer money from the fund to certain other funds
or accounts; expanding the authorized use of a certain prior appropriation to
the commissioner for costs resulting from the termination of certain public
safety radio communications system agreements (mk, ja)