Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF1703

1E Relating to transportation; creating a high speed rail fund and appropriating
money in the fund to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to plan and design
the Minnesota portion of a high speed rail corridor between the twin cities and
Chicago as part of the midwest regional rail system; defining metropolitan
transportation area and imposing a sales tax in the area, providing for
collection by the commissioner of revenue; creating the metropolitan
transportation sales tax account within the metropolitan area transit fund for
deposit of the revenue collected for appropriation to the metropolitan council
for capital and operating costs of bus, rail and paratransit service within the
metropolitan transportation area, for implementation of the transit portion of
the transportation policy plan and for distribution to metropolitan
transportation area counties for use by the counties, cities and towns to plan,
design, build, maintain, promote and operate public transit, bicycle and
pedestrian projects and to provide transportation infrastructure associated with
transit oriented development, specifying certain distribution eligibility
requirements; requiring biennial metropolitan council reports to the legislature
on expenditures and improvements
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