Bill Text: MN SF2858 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Transportation prior appropriations and transfers modifications
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-21 - Referred to Finance [SF2858 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-SF2858-Introduced.html
1.2relating to transportation finance; modifying certain appropriations and transfers;
1.3amending Laws 2013, chapter 117, article 1, section 3, subdivisions 2, 3, 6.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. Laws 2013, chapter 117, article 1, section 3, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.7(a) Aeronautics
1.10This appropriation is from the state
1.11airports fund and must be spent according
1.12to Minnesota Statutes, section360.305,
1.13subdivision 4 .
1.14The base appropriation for fiscal years 2016
1.15and 2017 is $14,298,000 for each year.
1.16Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section
1.1716A.28, subdivision 6
, this appropriation is
1.18available for five years after appropriation.
1.19If the appropriation for either year is
1.20insufficient, the appropriation for the other
1.21year is available for it.
2.1For the current biennium, the commissioner
2.2of transportation may establish different
2.3local contribution rates for airport projects
2.4than those established in Minnesota Statutes,
2.5section 360.305, subdivision 4.
2.10$65,000 in each year is from the state airports
2.11fund for the Civil Air Patrol.
2.16$100,000 in each year is from the general
2.17fund for the administrative expenses of the
2.18Minnesota Council on Transportation Access
2.19under Minnesota Statutes, section174.285 .
2.20$78,000 in each year is from the general
2.21fund for grants to greater Minnesota transit
2.22providers as reimbursement for the costs of
2.23providing fixed route public transit rides free
2.24of charge under Minnesota Statutes, section
2.25174.24, subdivision 7
, for veterans certified
2.26as disabled.
2.28This appropriation is from the general
2.29fund for passenger rail system planning,
2.30alternatives analysis, environmental analysis,
2.31design, and preliminary engineering under
2.32Minnesota Statutes, sections174.632 to
2.33174.636
.
3.4$500,000 in the first year is from the general
3.5fund to pay for the department's share of costs
3.6associated with the cleanup of contaminated
3.7state rail bank property. This appropriation is
3.8available until expended.
3.10This appropriation is from the general fund
3.11for non-infrastructure activities in the safe
3.12routes to school program under Minnesota
3.13Statutes, section174.40, subdivision 7a .
3.14 Sec. 2. Laws 2013, chapter 117, article 1, section 3, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
3.24$250,000 in each year is for the department's
3.25administrative costs for creation and
3.26operation of the Joint Program Office for
3.27Economic Development and Alternative
3.28Finance, including costs of hiring a
3.29consultant and preparing required reports.
3.30$130,000 in each year is available for
3.31administrative costs of the targeted group
3.32business program.
4.1$266,000 in each year is available for grants
4.2to metropolitan planning organizations
4.3outside the seven-county metropolitan area.
4.4$75,000 in each year is available for a
4.5transportation research contingent account
4.6to finance research projects that are
4.7reimbursable from the federal government or
4.8from other sources. If the appropriation for
4.9either year is insufficient, the appropriation
4.10for the other year is available for it.
4.11$900,000 in each year is available for
4.12grants for transportation studies outside
4.13the metropolitan area to identify critical
4.14concerns, problems, and issues. These
4.15grants are available: (1) to regional
4.16development commissions; (2) in regions
4.17where no regional development commission
4.18is functioning, to joint powers boards
4.19established under agreement of two or
4.20more political subdivisions in the region to
4.21exercise the planning functions of a regional
4.22development commission; and (3) in regions
4.23where no regional development commission
4.24or joint powers board is functioning, to the
4.25department's district office for that region.
4.26$75,000 in the first year is from the highway
4.27user tax distribution fund to the commissioner
4.28for a grant to the Humphrey School of Public
4.29Affairs at the University of Minnesota for
4.30WorkPlace Telework program congestion
4.31relief efforts consisting of maintenance of
4.32Web site tools and content. This is a onetime
4.33appropriation and is available in the second
4.34year.
5.3This appropriation is to complete projects
5.4using funds made available to the
5.5commissioner of transportation under
5.6title XII of the American Recovery and
5.7Reinvestment Act of 2009, Public Law
5.8111-5, and implemented under Minnesota
5.9Statutes, section161.36, subdivision 7 . The
5.10base appropriation is $1,000,000 in fiscal
5.11year 2016 and $0 in fiscal year 2017.
5.14It is estimated that these appropriations will
5.15be funded as follows:
5.21The commissioner of transportation shall
5.22notify the chairs and ranking minority
5.23members of the legislative committees with
5.24jurisdiction over transportation finance of
5.25any significant events that should cause these
5.26estimates to change.
5.27This appropriation is for the actual
5.28construction, reconstruction, and
5.29improvement of trunk highways, including
5.30design-build contracts and consultant usage
5.31to support these activities. This includes the
5.32cost of actual payment to landowners for
5.33lands acquired for highway rights-of-way,
5.34payment to lessees, interest subsidies, and
5.35relocation expenses.
6.1The base appropriation for state road
6.2construction for fiscal years 2016 and 2017
6.3is $645,000,000 in each year.
6.4$10,000,000 in each year is for the
6.5transportation economic development
6.6program under Minnesota Statutes, section
6.7174.12
.
6.8The commissioner may expend up to one-half
6.9of one percent of the federal appropriations
6.10under this clause as grants to opportunity
6.11industrialization centers and other nonprofit
6.12job training centers for job training programs
6.13related to highway construction.
6.14The commissioner may transfer up to
6.15$15,000,000 each year to the transportation
6.16revolving loan fund.
6.17The commissioner may receive money
6.18covering other shares of the cost of
6.19partnership projects. These receipts are
6.20appropriated to the commissioner for these
6.21projects.
6.22Of this appropriation, $14,000,000 in the first
6.23year is for the specific improvements to "Old
6.24Highway 14" described in the settlement
6.25agreement and release executed January
6.267, 2014, between the state and Steele and
6.27Waseca Counties.
6.29$148,917,000 in the first year and
6.30$180,321,000 in the second year are for
6.31transfer to the state bond fund. If an
6.32appropriation is insufficient to make all
6.33transfers required in the year for which it is
6.34made, the commissioner of management and
7.1budget shall notify the senate Committee
7.2on Finance and the house of representatives
7.3Committee on Ways and Means of the
7.4amount of the deficiency and shall then
7.5transfer that amount under the statutory open
7.6appropriation. Any excess appropriation
7.7cancels to the trunk highway fund.
7.12The general fund appropriation is to equip
7.13and operate the Roosevelt signal tower for
7.14Lake of the Woods weather broadcasting.
7.15 Sec. 3. Laws 2013, chapter 117, article 1, section 3, subdivision 6, is amended to read:
7.17(a) With the approval of the commissioner of
7.18management and budget, the commissioner
7.19of transportation may transfer unencumbered
7.20balances among the appropriations from the
7.21trunk highway fund and the state airports
7.22fund made in this section. No transfer
7.23may be made from the appropriations for
7.24state road construction or for debt service.
7.25Transfers under this paragraph may not be
7.26made between funds. Transfers under this
7.27paragraph must be reported immediately to
7.28the chairs and ranking minority members of
7.29the legislative committees with jurisdiction
7.30over transportation finance.
7.31(b) The commissioner shall transfer from
7.32the flexible highway account in the county
7.33state-aid highway fund: (1) $5,700,000 in the
7.34first year and $21,000,000 in the second year
8.1to the trunk highway fund; (2) $13,000,000
8.2in the first year to the municipal turnback
8.3account in the municipal state-aid street fund;
8.4(3) $10,000,000 in the second year to the
8.5municipal turnback account in the municipal
8.6state-aid street fund; and (4) the remainder
8.7in each year to the county turnback account
8.8in the county state-aid highway fund. The
8.9funds transferred are for highway turnback
8.10purposes as provided under Minnesota
8.11Statutes, section161.081, subdivision 3 .
1.3amending Laws 2013, chapter 117, article 1, section 3, subdivisions 2, 3, 6.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. Laws 2013, chapter 117, article 1, section 3, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
| 1.6 |
Subd. 2.Multimodal Systems |
||||||
| 1.8 1.9 |
(1) Airport Development and Assistance |
14,648,000 |
16,648,000 |
||||
1.11airports fund and must be spent according
1.12to Minnesota Statutes, section
1.13subdivision 4
1.14The base appropriation for fiscal years 2016
1.15and 2017 is $14,298,000 for each year.
1.16Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section
1.18available for five years after appropriation.
1.19If the appropriation for either year is
1.20insufficient, the appropriation for the other
1.21year is available for it.
2.1For the current biennium, the commissioner
2.2of transportation may establish different
2.3local contribution rates for airport projects
2.4than those established in Minnesota Statutes,
2.5section 360.305, subdivision 4.
| 2.6 |
(2) Aviation Support and Services |
6,386,000 |
6,386,000 |
||||
| 2.7 |
Appropriations by Fund |
||
| 2.8 |
Airports |
5,286,000 |
5,286,000 |
| 2.9 |
Trunk Highway |
1,100,000 |
1,100,000 |
2.11fund for the Civil Air Patrol.
| 2.12 |
(b) Transit |
17,226,000 |
17,245,000 |
||||
| 2.13 |
Appropriations by Fund |
||
| 2.14 |
General |
16,451,000 |
16,470,000 |
| 2.15 |
Trunk Highway |
775,000 |
775,000 |
2.17fund for the administrative expenses of the
2.18Minnesota Council on Transportation Access
2.19under Minnesota Statutes, section
2.20$78,000 in each year is from the general
2.21fund for grants to greater Minnesota transit
2.22providers as reimbursement for the costs of
2.23providing fixed route public transit rides free
2.24of charge under Minnesota Statutes, section
2.26as disabled.
| 2.27 |
(c) Passenger Rail |
500,000 |
500,000 |
||||
2.29fund for passenger rail system planning,
2.30alternatives analysis, environmental analysis,
2.31design, and preliminary engineering under
2.32Minnesota Statutes, sections
| 2.34 |
(d) Freight |
5,653,000 |
5,153,000 |
||||
| 3.1 |
Appropriations by Fund |
||
| 3.2 |
General |
756,000 |
256,000 |
| 3.3 |
Trunk Highway |
4,897,000 |
4,897,000 |
3.5fund to pay for the department's share of costs
3.6associated with the cleanup of contaminated
3.7state rail bank property. This appropriation is
3.8available until expended.
| 3.9 |
(e) Safe Routes to School |
250,000 |
250,000 |
||||
3.11for non-infrastructure activities in the safe
3.12routes to school program under Minnesota
3.13Statutes, section
3.14 Sec. 2. Laws 2013, chapter 117, article 1, section 3, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
| 3.15 |
Subd. 3.State Roads |
||||||
| 3.16 3.17 |
(a) Operations and Maintenance |
267,395,000 |
280,395,000 |
||||
| 3.18 3.19 |
(b) Program Planning and Delivery |
206,795,000 |
209,720,000 |
||||
| 3.20 |
Appropriations by Fund |
||
| 3.21 |
2014 |
2015 |
|
| 3.22 |
H.U.T.D. |
75,000 |
0 |
| 3.23 |
Trunk Highway |
206,720,000 |
206,720,000 |
3.25administrative costs for creation and
3.26operation of the Joint Program Office for
3.27Economic Development and Alternative
3.28Finance, including costs of hiring a
3.29consultant and preparing required reports.
3.30$130,000 in each year is available for
3.31administrative costs of the targeted group
3.32business program.
4.1$266,000 in each year is available for grants
4.2to metropolitan planning organizations
4.3outside the seven-county metropolitan area.
4.4$75,000 in each year is available for a
4.5transportation research contingent account
4.6to finance research projects that are
4.7reimbursable from the federal government or
4.8from other sources. If the appropriation for
4.9either year is insufficient, the appropriation
4.10for the other year is available for it.
4.11$900,000 in each year is available for
4.12grants for transportation studies outside
4.13the metropolitan area to identify critical
4.14concerns, problems, and issues. These
4.15grants are available: (1) to regional
4.16development commissions; (2) in regions
4.17where no regional development commission
4.18is functioning, to joint powers boards
4.19established under agreement of two or
4.20more political subdivisions in the region to
4.21exercise the planning functions of a regional
4.22development commission; and (3) in regions
4.23where no regional development commission
4.24or joint powers board is functioning, to the
4.25department's district office for that region.
4.26$75,000 in the first year is from the highway
4.27user tax distribution fund to the commissioner
4.28for a grant to the Humphrey School of Public
4.29Affairs at the University of Minnesota for
4.30WorkPlace Telework program congestion
4.31relief efforts consisting of maintenance of
4.32Web site tools and content. This is a onetime
4.33appropriation and is available in the second
4.34year.
| 4.35 |
(c) State Road Construction Activity |
||||||
| 5.1 5.2 |
(1) Economic Recovery Funds - Federal Highway Aid |
1,000,000 |
1,000,000 |
||||
5.4using funds made available to the
5.5commissioner of transportation under
5.6title XII of the American Recovery and
5.7Reinvestment Act of 2009, Public Law
5.8111-5, and implemented under Minnesota
5.9Statutes, section
5.10base appropriation is $1,000,000 in fiscal
5.11year 2016 and $0 in fiscal year 2017.
| 5.12 5.13 |
(2) State Road Construction |
923,400,000 |
815,600,000 |
||||
5.15be funded as follows:
| 5.16 |
Appropriations by Fund |
||
| 5.17 5.18 |
Federal Highway Aid |
489,200,000 |
482,200,000 |
| 5.19 5.20 |
Highway User Taxes |
434,200,000 |
333,400,000 |
5.22notify the chairs and ranking minority
5.23members of the legislative committees with
5.24jurisdiction over transportation finance of
5.25any significant events that should cause these
5.26estimates to change.
5.27This appropriation is for the actual
5.28construction, reconstruction, and
5.29improvement of trunk highways, including
5.30design-build contracts and consultant usage
5.31to support these activities. This includes the
5.32cost of actual payment to landowners for
5.33lands acquired for highway rights-of-way,
5.34payment to lessees, interest subsidies, and
5.35relocation expenses.
6.1The base appropriation for state road
6.2construction for fiscal years 2016 and 2017
6.3is $645,000,000 in each year.
6.4$10,000,000 in each year is for the
6.5transportation economic development
6.6program under Minnesota Statutes, section
6.8The commissioner may expend up to one-half
6.9of one percent of the federal appropriations
6.10under this clause as grants to opportunity
6.11industrialization centers and other nonprofit
6.12job training centers for job training programs
6.13related to highway construction.
6.14The commissioner may transfer up to
6.15$15,000,000 each year to the transportation
6.16revolving loan fund.
6.17The commissioner may receive money
6.18covering other shares of the cost of
6.19partnership projects. These receipts are
6.20appropriated to the commissioner for these
6.21projects.
6.22Of this appropriation, $14,000,000 in the first
6.23year is for the specific improvements to "Old
6.24Highway 14" described in the settlement
6.25agreement and release executed January
6.267, 2014, between the state and Steele and
6.27Waseca Counties.
| 6.28 |
(d) Highway Debt Service |
158,417,000 |
189,821,000 |
||||
6.30$180,321,000 in the second year are for
6.31transfer to the state bond fund. If an
6.32appropriation is insufficient to make all
6.33transfers required in the year for which it is
6.34made, the commissioner of management and
7.1budget shall notify the senate Committee
7.2on Finance and the house of representatives
7.3Committee on Ways and Means of the
7.4amount of the deficiency and shall then
7.5transfer that amount under the statutory open
7.6appropriation. Any excess appropriation
7.7cancels to the trunk highway fund.
| 7.8 |
(e) Electronic Communications |
5,171,000 |
5,171,000 |
||||
| 7.9 |
Appropriations by Fund |
||
| 7.10 |
General |
3,000 |
3,000 |
| 7.11 |
Trunk Highway |
5,168,000 |
5,168,000 |
7.13and operate the Roosevelt signal tower for
7.14Lake of the Woods weather broadcasting.
7.15 Sec. 3. Laws 2013, chapter 117, article 1, section 3, subdivision 6, is amended to read:
| 7.16 |
Subd. 6.Transfers |
||||||
7.18management and budget, the commissioner
7.19of transportation may transfer unencumbered
7.20balances among the appropriations from the
7.21trunk highway fund and the state airports
7.22fund made in this section. No transfer
7.23may be made from the appropriations for
7.24state road construction or for debt service.
7.25Transfers under this paragraph may not be
7.26made between funds. Transfers under this
7.27paragraph must be reported immediately to
7.28the chairs and ranking minority members of
7.29the legislative committees with jurisdiction
7.30over transportation finance.
7.31(b) The commissioner shall transfer from
7.32the flexible highway account in the county
7.33state-aid highway fund: (1) $5,700,000 in the
7.34first year and $21,000,000 in the second year
8.1to the trunk highway fund; (2) $13,000,000
8.2in the first year to the municipal turnback
8.3account in the municipal state-aid street fund;
8.4(3) $10,000,000 in the second year to the
8.5municipal turnback account in the municipal
8.6state-aid street fund; and (4) the remainder
8.7in each year to the county turnback account
8.8in the county state-aid highway fund. The
8.9funds transferred are for highway turnback
8.10purposes as provided under Minnesota
8.11Statutes, section
