HF 301

as introduced - 93rd Legislature (2023 - 2024) Posted on 01/11/2023 04:03pm

A bill for an act
relating to transportation finance; modifying an appropriation for state road
construction; amending Laws 2021, First Special Session chapter 5, article 1,
section 2, subdivision 3.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Laws 2021, First Special Session chapter 5, article 1, section 2, subdivision 3,
is amended to read:

Subd. 3. State Roads

(a) Operations and Maintenance

370,975,000

369,481,000

$2,130,000 in each year is for liquid deicing
chemicals and storage and application
equipment to reduce road salt use. This is a
onetime appropriation.

The base is $367,351,000 in each of fiscal
years 2024 and 2025.

(b) Program Planning and Delivery

(1) Planning and Research

31,690,000

31,190,000

The commissioner may use any balance
remaining in this appropriation for program
delivery under clause (2).

Up to $500,000 in fiscal year 2022 is for safety
improvements in Department of
Transportation District 1, to perform cost
estimating, environmental permitting, and
preliminary engineering on trunk highway
segments with a continuous freeway or
expressway gap.

$130,000 in each year is available for
administrative costs of the targeted group
business program.

$266,000 in each year is available for grants
to metropolitan planning organizations outside
the seven-county metropolitan area.

$900,000 in each year is available for grants
for transportation studies outside the
metropolitan area to identify critical concerns,
problems, and issues. These grants are
available: (1) to regional development
commissions; (2) in regions where no regional
development commission is functioning, to
joint powers boards established under
agreement of two or more political
subdivisions in the region to exercise the
planning functions of a regional development
commission; and (3) in regions where no
regional development commission or joint
powers board is functioning, to the Department
of Transportation district office for that region.

(2) Program Delivery

231,028,000

231,028,000

This appropriation includes use of consultants
to support development and management of
projects.

$1,000,000 in each year is available for
management of contaminated and regulated
material on property owned by the Department
of Transportation, including mitigation of
property conveyances, facility acquisition or
expansion, chemical release at maintenance
facilities, and spills on the trunk highway
system where there is no known responsible
party. If the appropriation for either year is
insufficient, the appropriation for the other
year is available for it.

(c) State Road Construction

1,131,925,000

deleted text begin 974,282,000 deleted text end new text begin 1,289,782,000 new text end

This appropriation is for the actual
construction, reconstruction, and improvement
of trunk highways, including design-build
contracts, internal department costs associated
with delivering the construction program,
consultant usage to support these activities,
and the cost of actual payments to landowners
for lands acquired for highway rights-of-way,
payment to lessees, interest subsidies, and
relocation expenses.

This appropriation includes federal highway
aid. The commissioner of transportation must
notify the chairs, ranking minority members,
and staff of the legislative committees with
jurisdiction over transportation finance of any
significant events that cause the estimates of
federal aid to change.

The commissioner may expend up to one-half
of one percent of the federal appropriations
under this paragraph as grants to opportunity
industrialization centers and other nonprofit
job training centers for job training programs
related to highway construction.

The commissioner may transfer up to
$15,000,000 in each year to the transportation
revolving loan fund.

The commissioner may receive money
covering other shares of the cost of partnership
projects. These receipts are appropriated to
the commissioner for these projects.

new text begin The base is $974,282,000 in each of fiscal
years 2024 and 2025.
new text end

(d) Corridors of Commerce

25,000,000

25,000,000

This appropriation is for the corridors of
commerce program under Minnesota Statutes,
section 161.088. The commissioner may use
up to 17 percent of the amount in each year
for program delivery.

(e) Highway Debt Service

235,849,000

281,064,000

$232,849,000 in fiscal year 2022 and
$278,064,000 in fiscal year 2023 are for
transfer to the state bond fund. If this
appropriation is insufficient to make all
transfers required in the year for which it is
made, the commissioner of management and
budget must transfer the deficiency amount
as provided under Minnesota Statutes, section
16A.641, and notify the chairs, ranking
minority members, and staff of the legislative
committees with jurisdiction over
transportation finance and the chairs of the
senate Finance Committee and the house of
representatives Ways and Means Committee
of the amount of the deficiency. Any excess
appropriation cancels to the trunk highway
fund.

(f) Statewide Radio Communications

6,239,000

6,239,000

Appropriations by Fund
	2022	2023
General	3,000	3,000
Trunk Highway	6,236,000	6,236,000

$3,000 in each year is from the general fund
to equip and operate the Roosevelt signal
tower for Lake of the Woods weather
broadcasting.

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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