1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; appropriating money for certain highway projects in 
1.3 	Hennepin County.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. HENNEPIN COUNTY TRUNK HIGHWAY PROJECTS; 
1.6 	APPROPRIATION.
 1.7 	$12,500,000 is appropriated from the trunk highway fund to the commissioner of 
1.8 	transportation for projects, including preliminary and final design, engineering, environmental 
1.9 	analysis, right-of-way acquisition, construction, and reconstruction, that improve intersections 
1.10 	or enhance safety along segments of trunk highways in Hennepin County having (1) annual 
1.11 	average daily traffic greater than 16,000 vehicles; (2) a severe and fatal crash rate greater 
1.12 	than 2.25 percent; and (3) a fatality rate exceeding an average of three deaths per mile within 
1.13 	an eight-mile segment of a continuous two-lane, two-way roadway.

1.14 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.