Bill Text: MN HF688 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Freight rail line noise mitigation barrier installation and construction money reauthorized, and bonds issued.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-24 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Transportation Policy and Finance [HF688 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2011-HF688-Introduced.html
1.2relating to capital investment; reauthorizing money to install and construct noise
1.3mitigation barriers on freight rail lines; authorizing the sale and issuance of
1.4state bonds.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK; RAILROAD NOISE MITIGATION.
1.7 Subdivision 1. Appropriation. $700,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds
1.8fund to the commissioner of transportation for a grant to the city of St. Louis Park to
1.9predesign, design, construct, and install noise mitigation barriers associated with route
1.10changes for freight rail.
1.11 Subd. 2. Bond financing. To provide the money appropriated in this section from
1.12the bond proceeds fund, the $700,000 appropriation in Laws 2006, chapter 258, section
1.1316, subdivision 6, paragraph (a), is reauthorized to St. Louis Park for the purposes of
1.14subdivision 1, in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota
1.15Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI,
1.16sections 4 to 7. Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.642, this appropriation
1.17and its corresponding bond authorization do not cancel until December 31, 2014.
1.18EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
1.3mitigation barriers on freight rail lines; authorizing the sale and issuance of
1.4state bonds.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK; RAILROAD NOISE MITIGATION.
1.7 Subdivision 1. Appropriation. $700,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds
1.8fund to the commissioner of transportation for a grant to the city of St. Louis Park to
1.9predesign, design, construct, and install noise mitigation barriers associated with route
1.10changes for freight rail.
1.11 Subd. 2. Bond financing. To provide the money appropriated in this section from
1.12the bond proceeds fund, the $700,000 appropriation in Laws 2006, chapter 258, section
1.1316, subdivision 6, paragraph (a), is reauthorized to St. Louis Park for the purposes of
1.14subdivision 1, in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota
1.15Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI,
1.16sections 4 to 7. Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.642, this appropriation
1.17and its corresponding bond authorization do not cancel until December 31, 2014.
1.18EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
