Bill Text: MN HF1943 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Metropolitan Council transit funding provisions modified.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-26 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Transportation Policy and Finance [HF1943 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2011-HF1943-Introduced.html

1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to transportation; appropriations; transit funding;amending Laws 2011,
1.3First Special Session chapter 3, article 1, section 4.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5    Section 1. Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 3, article 1, section 4, is amended
1.6to read:
1.7
Sec. 4. METROPOLITAN COUNCIL
$
39,038,000
$
39,038,000
1.8This appropriation is from the general
1.9fund for transit system operations under
1.10Minnesota Statutes, sections 473.371 to
1.11473.449 .
1.12Of this appropriation, $140,000 in each
1.13fiscal year is for transit service for disabled
1.14veterans under Minnesota Statutes, section
1.15473.408, subdivision 10 .
1.16The base appropriation is $64,889,000 for
1.17fiscal year 2014 and $64,970,000 for fiscal
1.18year 2015.
1.19Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section
1.20473.388, subdivision 4 , in each year of the
1.21biennium fiscal year 2012, the Metropolitan
1.22Council shall provide financial assistance to
1.23transit providers under Minnesota Statutes,
2.1section 473.388, in an amount that is
2.2$1,650,000 less than the amount of assistance
2.3that was provided to transit providers by the
2.4Metropolitan Council in fiscal year 2011.
2.5Funds not transferred as a result of this
2.6rider are available for use by the council for
2.7metropolitan transit operations.
2.8EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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