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 	certain Department of Transportation planning.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. U.S. HIGHWAY 169 PLANNING.
 1.6 	(a) In the next update to the Department of Transportation's ten-year highway capital 
1.7 	investment plan, the commissioner of transportation must incorporate expansion of marked 
1.8 	U.S. Highway 169 to be a four-lane divided highway for the entire segment from Grand 
1.9 	Rapids to Virginia.
1.10 	(b) The commissioner must not remove from the ten-year highway capital investment 
1.11 	plan any project that is included as specified in paragraph (a), unless it is completed.

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