HF 3291

as introduced - 88th Legislature (2013 - 2014) Posted on 03/26/2014 11:48am

A bill for an act
relating to transportation finance; increasing appropriation for trunk highway
construction; amending Laws 2013, chapter 117, article 1, section 3, subdivision
3.

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

Section 1.

Laws 2013, chapter 117, article 1, section 3, subdivision 3, is amended to read:

Subd. 3. State Roads

(a) Operations and Maintenance

262,395,000

262,395,000

(b) Program Planning and Delivery

206,795,000

206,720,000

Appropriations by Fund
	2014	2015
H.U.T.D.	75,000	0
Trunk Highway	206,720,000	206,720,000

$250,000 in each year is for the department's
administrative costs for creation and
operation of the Joint Program Office for
Economic Development and Alternative
Finance, including costs of hiring a
consultant and preparing required reports.

$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.

$75,000 in each year is available for a
transportation research contingent account
to finance research projects that are
reimbursable from the federal government or
from other sources. If the appropriation for
either year is insufficient, the appropriation
for the other year is available for it.

$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's district office for that region.

$75,000 in the first year is from the highway
user tax distribution fund to the commissioner
for a grant to the Humphrey School of Public
Affairs at the University of Minnesota for
WorkPlace Telework program congestion
relief efforts consisting of maintenance of
Web site tools and content. This is a onetime
appropriation and is available in the second
year.

(c) State Road Construction Activity

(1) Economic Recovery Funds - Federal Highway Aid

1,000,000

1,000,000

This appropriation is to complete projects
using funds made available to the
commissioner of transportation under
title XII of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009, Public Law
111-5, and implemented under Minnesota
Statutes, section 161.36, subdivision 7. The
base appropriation is $1,000,000 in fiscal
year 2016 and $0 in fiscal year 2017.

(2) State Road Construction

deleted text begin 909,400,000 deleted text end new text begin 934,400,000 new text end

815,600,000

It is estimated that these appropriations will
be funded as follows:

Appropriations by Fund
Federal Highway Aid	489,200,000	482,200,000
Highway User Taxes	deleted text begin 420,200,000 deleted text end new text begin 445,200,000 new text end	333,400,000

The commissioner of transportation shall
notify the chairs and ranking minority
members of the legislative committees with
jurisdiction over transportation finance of
any significant events that should cause these
estimates to change.

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

The base appropriation for state road
construction for fiscal years 2016 and 2017
is $645,000,000 in each year.

$10,000,000 in each year is for the
transportation economic development
program under Minnesota Statutes, section
174.12.

The commissioner may expend up to one-half
of one percent of the federal appropriations
under this clause 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 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.

(d) Highway Debt Service

158,417,000

189,821,000

$148,917,000 in the first year and
$180,321,000 in the second year are for
transfer to the state bond fund. If an
appropriation is insufficient to make all
transfers required in the year for which it is
made, the commissioner of management and
budget shall notify the senate Committee
on Finance and the house of representatives
Committee on Ways and Means of the
amount of the deficiency and shall then
transfer that amount under the statutory open
appropriation. Any excess appropriation
cancels to the trunk highway fund.

(e) Electronic Communications

5,171,000

5,171,000

Appropriations by Fund
General	3,000	3,000
Trunk Highway	5,168,000	5,168,000

The general fund appropriation is to equip
and operate the Roosevelt signal tower for
Lake of the Woods weather broadcasting.

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