Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF1165

E Relating to transportation; establishing the metropolitan transportation
improvement board consisting of a certain number of metropolitan county
commissioners, specifying organization requirements and powers; authorizing the
board with the approval of a majority of the voters in the metropolitan
transportation area to temporarily impose additional sales and use and a motor
vehicle excise taxes (MVET) for transfer to the metropolitan council for
metropolitan area bus system capital expenses and to the trunk highway fund for
expenditure by the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to complete certain
metropolitan highway system improvements; requiring the legislative auditor to
annually audit the books and accounts of the board; requiring the secretary of
state in cooperation with the county auditors to conduct a special election
relating to imposition of the taxes; limiting highway expenditures and requiring
a certain amount of the revenues collected from the additional taxes to be spent
in Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Scott and Washington counties during the period of tax
imposition; requiring the commissioner and the metropolitan council to report
annually to the legislature on revenues and expenditures; appropriating money to
the secretary of state for election costs (mk, ja)