SF 2881

as introduced - 86th Legislature (2009 - 2010) Posted on 02/25/2010 02:53pm

A bill for an act
relating to transportation; appropriating money for bus service from Hastings to
Minneapolis-St. Paul during bridge construction; amending Laws 2009, chapter
36, article 1, section 3, subdivision 3.

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

Section 1.

Laws 2009, chapter 36, article 1, section 3, subdivision 3, is amended to read:

Subd. 3. State Roads

(a) Infrastructure Operations and Maintenance

251,643,000

245,892,000

The base appropriation for fiscal years 2012
and 2013 is $257,395,000 for each year.

(b) Infrastructure Investment and Planning

(1) Infrastructure Investment Support

201,461,000

196,935,000

The base appropriation for fiscal years 2012
and 2013 is $205,988,000 for each year.

$266,000 the first year and $266,000 the
second year are available for grants to
metropolitan planning organizations outside
the seven-county metropolitan area.

$75,000 the first year and $75,000 the
second year are 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.

$600,000 the first year and $600,000
the second year are 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.

(2) State Road Construction

551,300,000

598,700,000

The base appropriation for fiscal years 2012
and 2013 is $635,000,000 for each year.

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

Appropriations by Fund
Federal Highway Aid	301,100,000	388,500,000
Highway User Taxes	250,200,000	210,200,000

The commissioner of transportation shall
notify the chairs and ranking minority
members of the senate and house of
representatives 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 commissioner may spend up to $500,000
of trunk highway funds in fiscal year 2011
to pay the operating costs of bus service
between Hastings and Minneapolis-St. Paul
to mitigate the traffic impacts of the project
involving construction of a bridge crossing
the Mississippi River in the city of Hastings
on marked Trunk Highway 61.

The commissioner shall 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 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.

(3) Highway Debt Service

101,170,000

173,400,000

$86,517,000 the first year and $157,304,000
the second year 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 finance
shall notify the Committee on Finance of
the senate and the Committee on Ways and
Means of the house of representatives 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.

(c) Electronic Communications

5,177,000

5,177,000

Appropriations by Fund
General	9,000	9,000
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.

EFFECTIVE DATE.

This section is effective July 1, 2010.