Legislative Session number- 89

Bill Name: SF1647

4E Relating to transportation


ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS


Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to the
department of transportation (DOT) for multimodal systems including aeronautics,
transit, passenger rail and freight, state roads for operations and maintenance,
program planning and delivery, state road construction, highway debt service and
statewide radio communications, for local roads including county state-aid
roads, pedestrian, bike and safe routes to school, and municipal state aid
roads, for agency management for
agency services, tort claims, and buildings,
for certain transfers, specifying the state use of previous state roads
construction appropriations and contingent appropriations;
appropriating money
to the metropolitan council for transit purposes; appropriating money to the
public safety department for administration and related services, to the
office
of communications and for public safety support, administration and related
services, the state patrol for patrolling highways, commercial vehicle
enforcement and capitol security, driver and vehicle services, traffic safety
and pipeline safety

ARTICLE 2 - TRANSPORTATION POLICY

Modifying certain
provisions relating to transportation and public safety policies; modifying
data classifications for disability certificate holders and construction project
schedules data; providing for an appeal process for denial or revocation of a
driveway permit by the commissioner of transportation (DOT); modifying various
provisions impacting or enforced by the department of transportation relating to
state bikeways, connections with other bikeways, the Mississippi River trail
bikeway and the James L. Oberstar memorial bikeway; modifying certain provisions
related to the corridors for commerce program; requiring the commissioner of
transportation to use products made in America when possible; clarifying certain
subcontracting goals for small targeted group business, veterans-owned small
business and contract awards limitations; authorizing the commissioner of
transportation (DOT) to enter into agreements with Indian tribal authorities for
the awarding of tribal land highway construction contracts to Indian-owned
contractors, specifying certain agreement content requirements; authorizing
department of public safety deputy registrars and drivers license agents to
retain driver records and documents in a secure electronic medium after a
certain amount of time after transaction and according to commissioner
standards; authorizing peace officers to stop motor vehicle drivers and issue
citations for work zone violations within a certain period of time after
violation occurrence; requiring motor vehicle drivers to move a lane over when
passing parked utility company vehicles; modifying the definition of electronic
message relating to traffic regulations; modifying motorcycle headlamp
requirements to allow up to four headlamps; modifying certain provisions
relating to inspection reports of commercial motor vehicles and
passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicles; providing for proof of automobile
insurance in electronic format; restricting law enforcement electronic device
data access and specifying damage liability assumption; providing for and
aerodynamic device exclusion for certain motor vehicle length limits;
authorizing the commissioner of public safety to issue a nondomiciled commercial
driver learners permit or nondomiciled commercial driver's licenses; requiring
licenses to be clearly marked; modifying certain advertising along highways
provisions; modifying certain commissioner of transportation duties; modifying
grant eligibility requirements for the safe routes to school program; clarifying
certain provisions in the local road improvement fund; requiring a minimum of
two-person crews on class I or II railroad trains carrying freight; allowing
exceptions; prescribing misdemeanor penalties; clarifying causes and types of
damage for which railroads have responsibility; modifying and expanding certain
provisions relating to damages caused by train or contents and reimbursements
for response to train-related fires or other emergencies; prohibiting intrastate
motor carriers and intrastate private carriers and transportation services from
operating a commercial motor vehicle during a federal motor carrier
out-of-service order; requiring utilities intending to place facilities across a
railroad right-of-way to request railroad prior permission; specifying a
procedure; allowing railroad objection and public utilities commission (PUC)
intervention for resolution of differences; clarifying the certification
requirement for overdimensional load escort drivers; increasing the metropolitan
council transportation advisory board membership by adding an elected official
from a city participating in the replacement service program; modifying a safety
preparedness study by public safety relating to the transportation of oil and
other hazardous materials; prohibiting parking signs from using the words
handicap, disabled or disability, requiring use of the word accessible;
authorizing the reconstruction of certain bridge approaches along trunk highway
#23; authorizing St. Paul to restrict or prohibit engine brake use on motor
vehicles on legislative route #392, also known as interstate highway #94 between
Johnson Parkway and trunk highway #52; authorizing the removal of legislative
route #275 in Lac qui Parle county and the alternative eminent domain damages
appraisal petition authority with the office of administrative hearings;
requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to report to the legislature
on the use of tolling expansion to reduce congestion and raise revenue;
authorizing a cost share policy for cooperative construction projects and
maintenance responsibilities between the department of transportation (DOT) and
local governments; authorizing the commissioner of public safety make available
fingerprinting services to commercial truck drivers to obtain a hazardous
materials endorsement
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