Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF1986

3E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government,
appropriating money for transportation, metropolitan council and public safety
activities

ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Providing a summary of
appropriations; appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation (DOT)
for multimodal systems, airport development and assistance, aviation support and
services, transit, freight, rail, state roads, infrastructure investment and
planning and support, state road construction, highway debt service,
infrastructure operations and maintenance, electronic communications, local
roads, county and municipal state aids, department support and buildings;
authorizing certain fund transfers and state road construction appropriations
use and providing for contingent appropriations, to the metropolitan council for
bus transit and rail operations, to the commissioner of public safety for
administration and related costs, office of communications, public safety
support, technical support services, the state patrol for patrolling highways,
commercial vehicle enforcement, capitol security, driver and vehicle services
and traffic and pipeline safety; authorizing certain expenditures under general
contingent accounts; providing for tort claims; providing for state employee
compensation adjustments; requiring Lafayette bridge reconstruction or
improvement compatibility with future transit (light rail transit LRT)
possibility; requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to issue
necessary permits to the city of Rochester to complete construction of a new
folded diamond interchange in the northeast and northwest quadrants at trunk
highway #52 and a local city street; authorizing use of federal transit funds
for capital assistance for public transit systems; creating the county road #3
to overpass task force to plan the design, construction and funding for Scott
county road #3 overpass over trunk highway #169; creating the airport funding
advisory task force to study and recommend the best methods for funding airports
and the state airports fund, specifying certain membership requirements and
duties, requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date

ARTICLE 2 -
FUEL TAX

Increasing the motor fuels excise tax; requiring the commissioner of
revenue to annually adjust and publish fuel tax rates, specifying a calculation
for adjustment

ARTICLE 3 - VEHICLE REGISTRATION TAX

Modifying passenger
vehicle registration tax and modifying the imposition of the motor vehicle
registration tax on passenger automobiles in subsequent years

ARTICLE 4 - LOCAL
SALES TAX

Authorizing the metropolitan transportation area joint powers board
to impose a transportation sales and use tax and a sales tax on motor vehicles
within the metropolitan transportation area, requiring counties to enter into a
joint powers agreement and to create a joint powers board, providing an option
for contiguous counties, creating a metropolitan area transportation fund for
deposit of revenues and appropriating money in the fund to the commissioner of
finance for allocation; requiring the joint powers board to establish a grant
application and award process; authorizing and providing for imposition of the
taxes in counties and cities outside the metropolitan transportation area,
limitation, requiring dedication of the proceeds to specific transportation
projects

ARTICLE 5 - COUNTY WHEELAGE TAX

Expanding the county wheelage tax
statewide, increasing the limit and requiring crediting to the road and bridge
fund of the county levying the tax

ARTICLE 6 - MOTOR VEHICLE SALES TAX, MOTOR
VEHICLE LEASE SALES TAX

Establishing a transit assistance fund; changing the
name of the greater Minnesota transit fund and metropolitan area transit fund to
the greater Minnesota transit account; increasing motor vehicle rental fees;
removing a metropolitan council sales tax exemption; providing inclusion of the
document administration fee in the total amount paid for lease sales tax
purposes; requiring separate lessor tax reporting; 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 funds;
modifying metropolitan council financial assistance provisions relating to the
replacement service program; repealing the transit assistance program

ARTICLE
7 - COUNTY STATE-AID FUND DISTRIBUTION

Modifying the county state aid highway
fund apportionment formula, providing for the calculation and apportionment of
the excess sum and apportionment sum

ARTICLE 8 - DRIVER AND VEHICLE SERVICES
FEES

Requiring an administrative fee payment for motor vehicle registration
exceptions and modifying the exception; modifying motor vehicle license plate
and sticker additional fees; increasing motor vehicle title fees; modifying
drivers license, permit, identification and reinstatement fees; specifying state
patrol escort service fees

ARTICLE 9 - TRUNK HIGHWAY BONDING

Requiring the
commissioner of finance to report to the commissioner of revenue the debt
service and trunk highway bond proceeds account forecasts; requiring
commissioner of revenue fuel tax surcharge computation and publication;
appropriating money to DOT for trunk highway improvements and for the Great
River road, Mankato district headquarters, DOT building repair and a trunk
highway interchange, to the commissioner of finance for bond sale expenses and
authorizing and providing for the sale of state bonds; requiring the
commissioner of transportation to give priority to trunk highway projects with a
federal match

ARTICLE 10 - TRANSPORTATION STATUTORY CHANGES

Increasing the
motor vehicle cash sale price document administration fee; modifying the
distribution of the highway user tax distribution fund; appropriating remaining
balances in the world war II memorial donation matching account to the
commissioner of veterans affairs under certain conditions; increasing the
surcharge for revoked drivers license reinstatement; modifying certain forecast
requirements for highway user tax distribution fund and trunk highway fund
revenues and expenditures; requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to
utilize the maximum feasible amount of all federal funding to develop, conduct
and administer highway construction training; requiring the commissioner to
include a contractor sanction for contracts with federal funding not meeting
project disadvantaged business enterprise goals or a good faith effort;
modifying eligible activities of the public transit participation program;
establishing certain requirements for paratransit projects serving persons with
disabilities; requiring commissioner of transportation to work with providers to
provide supplementary paratransit services; requiring commissioner to enter into
intercounty service agreements with certain providers; requiring commissioner to
support one stop regional call centers to assist customers with rides; adding
certain transit service provider implementation duties to the metropolitan
council; requiring the commissioner of transportation to report on major highway
projects status annually; regulating county regional railroad authority capital
and operating and maintenance costs transit contributions; increasing the
bonding authority of the metropolitan council to issue certificates of
indebtedness, bonds or other obligations for metropolitan area transit and
paratransit capital expenditures, limit; modifying metropolitan area light rail
transit (LRT) planning, designing and construction; requiring the metropolitan
council to identify in the transportation policy plan heavily traveled corridors
to be benefited by transitways; requiring the council to designate locally
preferred alternative transit modes after locally directed studies; requiring
the governor to designate the metropolitan council or the state acting through
the department of transportation (DOT) as the responsible authority for each
metropolitan area proposed light rail transit facility; requiring the DOT to
transfer all constructed facilities, equipment and property to the metropolitan
council upon LRT facility completion; authorizing the metropolitan council to
plan, design, acquire, construct and equip LRT facilities in the metropolitan
area; clarifying metropolitan transit police jurisdiction; redefining transit
tax district; authorizing transit tax levies outside the existing metropolitan
transit taxing district; modifying certain duties of the commissioner of revenue
relating to transit tax imposition determinations; including the transit police
in the definition of appropriate agency under distribution of forfeited items;
requiring a Northstar corridor commuter rail station in the city of Fridley;
requiring the commissioner of transportation and the metropolitan council to
provide special transportation reports to the legislature by a certain date;
repealing metropolitan council district boundaries, transit taxing district
additions and certain construction of rail facilities local government
restrictions

ARTICLE 11 - CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS

Requiring the commissioner of
public safety to propose a system to the legislature by a certain date to allow
credit and debit card payments of motor vehicle registration taxes, certificate
of title transactions, and driver's license and ID card fees; authorizing
consideration of a fee imposition to registration taxes for processing fees
costs on all the types of credit and debit card payments, limitation
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