1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; appropriating money and
1.3 	authorizing bonds for the Robert Street Corridor
1.4 	Transit Way study and design.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; ROBERT STREET CORRIDOR TRANSIT
1.7 	WAY.
 1.8 		Subdivision 1.Appropriation. $2,000,000 is appropriated
1.9 	from the bond proceeds fund to the Metropolitan Council for
1.10 	environmental studies, predesign, and design for possible bus
1.11 	and light rail transit lanes and transit station locations on
1.12 	the Robert Street Corridor Transit Way along Robert Street from
1.13 	within the city of St. Paul to the intersection of Robert Street
1.14 	with marked Interstate Highway 494, continuing east on marked
1.15 	Interstate Highway 494 to U.S. 52, then south on U.S. 52 to the
1.16 	intersection of U.S. 52 with marked Trunk Highway 55, in the
1.17 	city of Inver Grove Heights.
1.18 		Subd. 2.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in
1.19 	this section from the bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of
1.20 	finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up
1.21 	to $2,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect
1.22 	prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675,
1.23 	and the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.