SF 2858

as introduced - 88th Legislature (2013 - 2014) Posted on 03/24/2014 08:16am

A bill for an act
relating to transportation finance; modifying certain appropriations and transfers;
amending Laws 2013, chapter 117, article 1, section 3, subdivisions 2, 3, 6.

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

Section 1.

Laws 2013, chapter 117, article 1, section 3, subdivision 2, is amended to read:

Subd. 2. Multimodal Systems

(a) Aeronautics

(1) Airport Development and Assistance

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This appropriation is from the state
airports fund and must be spent according
to Minnesota Statutes, section 360.305,
subdivision 4.

The base appropriation for fiscal years 2016
and 2017 is $14,298,000 for each year.

Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section
16A.28, subdivision 6, this appropriation is
available for five years after appropriation.
If the appropriation for either year is
insufficient, the appropriation for the other
year is available for it.

new text begin For the current biennium, the commissioner
of transportation may establish different
local contribution rates for airport projects
than those established in Minnesota Statutes,
section 360.305, subdivision 4.
new text end

(2) Aviation Support and Services

6,386,000

6,386,000

Appropriations by Fund
Airports	5,286,000	5,286,000
Trunk Highway	1,100,000	1,100,000

$65,000 in each year is from the state airports
fund for the Civil Air Patrol.

(b) Transit

17,226,000

17,245,000

Appropriations by Fund
General	16,451,000	16,470,000
Trunk Highway	775,000	775,000

$100,000 in each year is from the general
fund for the administrative expenses of the
Minnesota Council on Transportation Access
under Minnesota Statutes, section 174.285.

$78,000 in each year is from the general
fund for grants to greater Minnesota transit
providers as reimbursement for the costs of
providing fixed route public transit rides free
of charge under Minnesota Statutes, section
174.24, subdivision 7, for veterans certified
as disabled.

(c) Passenger Rail

500,000

500,000

This appropriation is from the general
fund for passenger rail system planning,
alternatives analysis, environmental analysis,
design, and preliminary engineering under
Minnesota Statutes, sections 174.632 to
174.636.

(d) Freight

5,653,000

5,153,000

Appropriations by Fund
General	756,000	256,000
Trunk Highway	4,897,000	4,897,000

$500,000 in the first year is from the general
fund to pay for the department's share of costs
associated with the cleanup of contaminated
state rail bank property. This appropriation is
available until expended.

(e) Safe Routes to School

250,000

250,000

This appropriation is from the general fund
for non-infrastructure activities in the safe
routes to school program under Minnesota
Statutes, section 174.40, subdivision 7a.

Sec. 2.

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

Subd. 3. State Roads

(a) Operations and Maintenance

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(b) Program Planning and Delivery

206,795,000

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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

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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 434,200,000 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.

new text begin Of this appropriation, $14,000,000 in the first
year is for the specific improvements to "Old
Highway 14" described in the settlement
agreement and release executed January
7, 2014, between the state and Steele and
Waseca Counties.
new text end

(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.

Sec. 3.

Laws 2013, chapter 117, article 1, section 3, subdivision 6, is amended to read:

Subd. 6. Transfers

(a) With the approval of the commissioner of
management and budget, the commissioner
of transportation may transfer unencumbered
balances among the appropriations from the
trunk highway fund and the state airports
fund made in this section. No transfer
may be made from the appropriations for
state road construction or for debt service.
Transfers under this paragraph may not be
made between funds. Transfers under this
paragraph must be reported immediately to
the chairs and ranking minority members of
the legislative committees with jurisdiction
over transportation finance.

(b) The commissioner shall transfer from
the flexible highway account in the county
state-aid highway fund: (1) $5,700,000 in the
first year new text begin and $21,000,000 in the second year
new text end to the trunk highway fund; (2) $13,000,000
in the first year to the municipal turnback
account in the municipal state-aid street fund;
(3) $10,000,000 in the second year to the
municipal turnback account in the municipal
state-aid street fund; and (4) the remainder
in each year to the county turnback account
in the county state-aid highway fund. The
funds transferred are for highway turnback
purposes as provided under Minnesota
Statutes, section 161.081, subdivision 3.