1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; providing for a mass transit and road capital expenses 
1.3 	appropriations subsidy match.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. ROADWAY AND BRIDGE FUNDING MATCH; SOUTHWEST 
1.6 	LIGHT RAIL CORRIDOR.
 1.7 		Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms 
1.8 	have the meanings given them.
1.9 	(b) "Adjusted Minnesota population" means the estimated total population of 
1.10 	Minnesota on the effective date of this act as calculated by the state demographer, minus 
1.11 	one-half the total number of projected daily Southwest Corridor Light Rail Transit trips or 
1.12 	riders as calculated by the Metropolitan Council.
1.13 	(c) "Southwest Corridor Light Rail Transit" means the proposed light rail transit line 
1.14 	capital project that connects the existing Hiawatha light rail transit line, known as the 
1.15 	Blue Line, with the city of Eden Prairie.
1.16 	(d) "Subsidy per rider" means the total amount of money appropriated by the 
1.17 	legislature for Southwest Corridor Light Rail Transit, divided by one-half the total number 
1.18 	of projected daily Southwest Corridor Light Rail Transit trips or riders as calculated by 
1.19 	the Metropolitan Council.
1.20 		Subd. 2.Infrastructure funding match; appropriation. If the legislature 
1.21 	appropriates $135,000,000 or any other amount of money, from any state source, to 
1.22 	provide the state-level match for capital expenses related to the design and construction 
1.23 	of Southwest Corridor Light Rail Transit, the legislature must also appropriate in the 
1.24 	same fiscal year an amount equal to the subsidy per rider multiplied by the adjusted 
2.1 	Minnesota population to the commissioner of transportation for highway, road, and bridge 
2.2 	construction and rehabilitation projects.

2.3 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment 
2.4 	and applies to any appropriation for Southwest Corridor Light Rail Transit made during or 
2.5 	after the 2016 regular session of the Minnesota Legislature.