1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to taxation; providing for allocation of 
  1.3             revenues of the sales tax on motor vehicles among the 
  1.4             general fund, highway user tax distribution fund, and 
  1.5             transit assistance fund; amending Minnesota Statutes 
  1.6             1994, section 297B.09, subdivision 1. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 297B.09, 
  1.9   subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  1.10     Subdivision 1.  [GENERAL FUND AND TRANSPORTATION SHARE.] (a)
  1.11  Money collected and received under this chapter must be 
  1.12  deposited in the state treasury and credited ~~to the general~~ 
  1.13  ~~fund.  The amounts collected and received shall be credited as~~ 
  1.14  ~~provided in this subdivision, and transferred from the general~~ 
  1.15  ~~fund on July 15 and February 15 of each fiscal year.  The~~ 
  1.16  ~~commissioner of finance must make each transfer based upon the~~ 
  1.17  ~~actual receipts of the preceding six calendar months and include~~ 
  1.18  ~~the interest earned during that six-month period.  The~~ 
  1.19  ~~commissioner of finance may establish a quarterly or other~~ 
  1.20  ~~schedule providing for more frequent payments to the transit~~ 
  1.21  ~~assistance fund if the commissioner determines it is necessary~~ 
  1.22  ~~or desirable to provide for the cash flow needs of the~~ 
  1.23  ~~recipients of money from the transit assistance fund.~~  
  1.24     ~~(b) Twenty-five percent of the money collected and received~~ 
  1.25  ~~under this chapter after June 30, 1990, and before July 1, 1991,~~ 
  1.26  ~~must be transferred to the highway user tax distribution fund~~ 
  2.1   ~~and the transit assistance fund for apportionment as follows:~~  
  2.2   ~~75 percent must be transferred to the highway user tax~~ 
  2.3   ~~distribution fund for apportionment in the same manner and for~~ 
  2.4   ~~the same purposes as other money in that fund, and the remaining~~ 
  2.5   ~~25 percent of the money must be transferred to the transit~~ 
  2.6   ~~assistance fund to be appropriated to the commissioner of~~ 
  2.7   ~~transportation for transit assistance within the state and to~~ 
  2.8   ~~the metropolitan council.~~  
  2.9      ~~(c) The distributions under this subdivision to the highway~~ 
  2.10  ~~user tax distribution fund until June 30, 1991, and to the trunk~~ 
  2.11  ~~highway fund thereafter, must be reduced by the amount necessary~~ 
  2.12  ~~to fund the appropriation under section 41A.09, subdivision 1.~~  
  2.13  ~~For the fiscal years ending June 30, 1988, and June 30, 1989,~~ 
  2.14  ~~the commissioner of finance, before making the transfers~~ 
  2.15  ~~required on July 15 and January 15 of each year, shall estimate~~ 
  2.16  ~~the amount required to fund the appropriation under section~~ 
  2.17  ~~41A.09, subdivision 1, for the six-month period for which the~~ 
  2.18  ~~transfer is being made.  The commissioner shall then reduce the~~ 
  2.19  ~~amount transferred to the highway user tax distribution fund by~~ 
  2.20  ~~the amount of that estimate.  The commissioner shall reduce the~~ 
  2.21  ~~estimate for any six-month period by the amount by which the~~ 
  2.22  ~~estimate for the previous six-month period exceeded the amount~~ 
  2.23  ~~needed to fund the appropriation under section 41A.09,~~ 
  2.24  ~~subdivision 1, for that previous six-month period.  If at any~~ 
  2.25  ~~time during a six-month period in those fiscal years the amount~~ 
  2.26  ~~of reduction in the transfer to the highway user tax~~ 
  2.27  ~~distribution fund is insufficient to fund the appropriation~~ 
  2.28  ~~under section 41A.09, subdivision 1, for that period, the~~ 
  2.29  ~~commissioner shall transfer to the general fund from the highway~~ 
  2.30  ~~user tax distribution fund an additional amount sufficient to~~ 
  2.31  ~~fund the appropriation for that period, but the additional~~ 
  2.32  ~~amount so transferred to the general fund in a six-month period~~ 
  2.33  ~~may not exceed the amount transferred to the highway user tax~~ 
  2.34  ~~distribution fund for that six-month period.~~ as follows: 
  2.35     (1) from July 1, 1997 to June 30, 1999, 75 percent to the 
  2.36  general fund, 18.75 percent to the highway user tax distribution 
  3.1   fund, and 6.25 percent to the transit assistance fund; 
  3.2      (2) from July 1, 1999 to June 30, 2001, 50 percent to the 
  3.3   general fund, 37.5 percent to the highway user tax distribution 
  3.4   fund, and 12.5 percent to the transit assistance fund; 
  3.5      (3) from July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2003, 25 percent to the 
  3.6   general fund, 56.25 percent to the highway user tax distribution 
  3.7   fund, and 18.75 percent to the transit assistance fund; 
  3.8      (4) on and after July 1, 2003, 75 percent to the highway 
  3.9   user tax distribution fund and 25 percent to the transit 
  3.10  assistance fund. 
  3.11     Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  3.12     Section 1 is effective July 1, 1997.