1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; directing inclusion of a project on U.S. Highway 169 in 
1.3 	Department of Transportation's ten-year capital highway investment plan; 
1.4 	appropriating money.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. U.S. HIGHWAY 169 PLANNING.
 1.7 	(a) In the next update to the Department of Transportation's ten-year capital highway 
1.8 	investment plan, the commissioner of transportation must incorporate as a ten-year priority 
1.9 	improvement of marked U.S. Highway 169 from a two-lane undivided highway to a four-lane 
1.10 	divided highway for the remaining eight-mile segment of Cross Range Expressway from 
1.11 	Taconite to Pengilly.
1.12 	(b) $15,000,000 in fiscal year 2020 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
1.13 	commissioner of transportation to be used for environmental permitting, preliminary 
1.14 	engineering, final design, and land acquisition needed to construct the U.S. Highway 169 
1.15 	completion project described in paragraph (a). The commissioner must conduct these 
1.16 	activities so that the project is ready to proceed with construction as soon as construction 
1.17 	financing becomes available.

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