Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF2063

Relating to transportation; appropriating money to the commissioner of
transportation (DOT) for state road construction to be allocated to state
construction districts using the target allocation formula, for local bridge
replacement and rehabilitation, for transfer to the local road improvement fund
and the county turnback account and for port development assistance grants, to
the metropolitan council for construction of bus garages and transit ways, for
purchases of buses and capital facilities and for fare increase replacement and
to the commissioner of finance for transfer to the transportation revolving
fund; specifying certain commissioner of transportation project cancellation or
delay and status reporting requirements; creating a local road improvement fund,
requiring the commissioner to appoint a local road improvement advisory
committee for consultation on criteria for expenditures and allocations from the
fund, specifying certain membership representation requirements; establishing
the trunk highway corridor, local road development, small cities and noise wall
accounts in the fund; requiring money in the trunk highway corridor account to
be used for grants to cities, towns and counties for the local share of projects
involving the reconstruction or improvement of trunk highways, money in the
local road development account for grants to cities and counties for the costs
of constructing or reconstructing local roads in the municipal or county state
aid systems, money in the small cities account for grants to certain small
cities for costs relating to maintenance and construction of local road systems
and money in the noise wall account for grants to cities, towns and counties for
the cost of constructing noise walls along trunk highways (je)