Bill Text: MN SF2350 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Bicycle light safety pilot program establishment and appropriation
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-08 - Referred to Transportation [SF2350 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2011-SF2350-Introduced.html
1.2relating to public safety; appropriating money; bicycle light safety pilot program.
1.3BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.4 Section 1. BICYCLE LIGHT SAFETY PILOT PROGRAM; APPROPRIATION.
1.5(a) An amount equal to the undesignated fund balance in the bicycle transportation
1.6account in the special revenue fund created in Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 168C.04,
1.7subdivision 2, is appropriated from that account to the commissioner of public safety
1.8in fiscal year 2012, for a bicycle light safety pilot program. The commissioner shall
1.9establish the program to: procure head lamps for bicycles; coordinate with one local law
1.10enforcement department to implement the pilot program; and distribute the head lamps
1.11to bicyclists who are operating at night without legal lighting, free of charge and in lieu
1.12of issuance of a traffic citation.
1.13(b) This appropriation is available only as matched by $1 of nonstate money for each
1.14$1 of state money. This appropriation is available until June 30, 2013.
1.15EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
1.3BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.4 Section 1. BICYCLE LIGHT SAFETY PILOT PROGRAM; APPROPRIATION.
1.5(a) An amount equal to the undesignated fund balance in the bicycle transportation
1.6account in the special revenue fund created in Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 168C.04,
1.7subdivision 2, is appropriated from that account to the commissioner of public safety
1.8in fiscal year 2012, for a bicycle light safety pilot program. The commissioner shall
1.9establish the program to: procure head lamps for bicycles; coordinate with one local law
1.10enforcement department to implement the pilot program; and distribute the head lamps
1.11to bicyclists who are operating at night without legal lighting, free of charge and in lieu
1.12of issuance of a traffic citation.
1.13(b) This appropriation is available only as matched by $1 of nonstate money for each
1.14$1 of state money. This appropriation is available until June 30, 2013.
1.15EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
