Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF1476

Relating to transportation; modifying the apportionment of the county+ state aid
highway fund to counties, providing for allocation of an +apportionment sum and
an excess sum; increasing motor vehicle registration tax depreciation+ schedule
for passenger automobiles and eliminating certain tax limits; +creating a
transit ways fund and specifying a priority for use, defining transit+ way;
increasing the gasoline and special fuels tax rates; reducing the +allocation of
revenues from the sales tax on motor vehicles to the highway user tax
distribution fund and providing for and increasing in stages the +allocation of
tax proceeds to the transit ways fund; designating the counties of +Anoka,
Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne, +Washington
and Wright as the metropolitan transportation area and regulating +highway
spending in the area; imposing additional sales and motor vehicle +sales taxes
in the area, providing for collection by the commissioner of revenue;
establishing a metropolitan transportation fund for deposit of +amounts
collected, authorizing use by the metropolitan council for +acquisition of
buses, highway shoulder improvements and other capital expenses +relating to
transit and by the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for highway +system
improvements in the metropolitan transportation area, authorizing the
metropolitan council to provide grants to the commissioner for +implementation
of transit capital improvements outside the metropolitan area but +inside the
metropolitan transportation area; voter approval requirement and +sunset;
appropriating money to the commissioner and authorizing the issuance +of state
bonds for certain trunk highway improvements (ra)