Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF2263

E Relating to transportation ARTICLE 1 � TRANSPORTATION MISCELLANEOUSProviding
for commissioner of transportation (DOT) cost sharing +agreements with Indian
tribal authorities to provide for maintenance, design and +construction of
highways on tribal lands; authorizing the commissioner to require +electronic
bids for highway construction contracts over a certain amount; making+ the
county and municipal state aid highway systems advisory and screening committees
and the local road improvement fund advisory committee +permanent; eliminating
the requirement for the commissioner to appoint a natural preservation route
advisory committee for each construction district; prohibiting the commissioner
of public safety from issuing vehicle registrations, license plates or permits
to vehicles assigned to +commercial motor carriers prohibited from operating in
interstate commerce by a +federal agency, authorizing reinstatement upon federal
agency rescission of +the prohibition; imposing a surety bond requirement on
dealers of +certain trailers designed to transport small construction or farm
equipment, +exceptions; authorizing vehicles hauling raw or unfinished forest
products from +certain highway load restrictions under certain conditions,
requiring a +permit and providing for disposition of the fee; authorizing the
governing +bodies of counties, cities or towns to designate streets or highways
for +transporting permitted weights without approval of the commissioner of
+transportation; requiring and providing for hazardous materials license
endorsement +background checks; expanding the definition of appropriate agency
for criminal +forfeiture purposes to the division of driver and vehicle services
in the +department of public safety for drivers license or identification (ID)
card +transactions violations purposes; repealing the major transportation
projects +commissionARTICLE 2 - HIGHWAY SAFETY REST AREASModifying certain
provisions regulating highway safety rest areas and+ travel (tourist)
information centers; authorizing and providing for the +commissioner of
transportation (DOT) to enter into lease agreements with public, +nonprofit or
private entities for the use of safety rest areas and travel +information
centers; authorizing sales of certain merchandise by the commissioner+ at rest
areas, authorizing advertising and providing for the deposit of +revenues;
regulating competing merchandise at rest areas; authorizing and +providing for
the commissioner to enter into agreements for public or private +sponsorship of
rest areas by transportation or tourism related entities; authorizing+ the sale
of surplus rest area property and appropriating the proceeds to the commissioner
for sale costs; prohibiting commissioner actions +resulting in the loss of
federal highway funds or requiring the payment of highway +funds to the federal
government; establishing a safety rest area account in the +trunk highway fund,
requiring commissioner deposit of certain revenue in +the account and
authorizing use of money in the account to fund safety rest +areas; changing the
travel information franchise program to the travel information +advertising
program and authorizing and providing for commissioner lease of +advertising
space under the program and for certain vendor agreements, +authorizing the
commissioner and the director of the office of tourism to enter into +an
interagency agreement to define the distribution of revenues under +the program;
placing a moratorium on commissioner closing or substantially +reducing the
hours of operation of certain trunk or interstate highway safety rest+ areas;
specifying certain renumbering and cross reference change +instructions to the
revisor of statutes (mk, ja)