1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; establishing rural road
1.3 	safety account in local road improvement fund;
1.4 	authorizing spending to acquire and better public land
1.5 	and buildings and public improvements of a capital
1.6 	nature with conditions; appropriating money for local
1.7 	road improvement program; authorizing issuance of
1.8 	general obligation bonds; amending Minnesota Statutes
1.9 	2004, section 174.52, by adding a subdivision.
1.10 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.11 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 174.52, is
1.12 	amended by adding a subdivision to read:
1.13 		Subd. 4a.Rural road safety account; appropriation. (a)
1.14 	A rural road safety account is established in the local road
1.15 	improvement fund.  Money in the account is annually appropriated
1.16 	to the commissioner of transportation for expenditure as
1.17 	specified in this subdivision.  Money in the account must be
1.18 	used as grants to counties to assist in paying the costs of
1.19 	capital improvement projects on county state-aid highways that
1.20 	are intended primarily to reduce traffic crashes, deaths,
1.21 	injuries, and property damage.
1.22 	(b) The commissioner shall establish procedures for
1.23 	counties to apply for grants from the rural road safety account
1.24 	and criteria to be used to select projects for funding.  The
1.25 	commissioner shall establish these procedures and criteria in
1.26 	consultation with representatives appointed by the Association
1.27 	of Minnesota Counties.  Eligibility for project selection must
2.1 	be based on the ability of each proposed project to reduce the
2.2 	frequency and severity of crashes.
2.3 	(c) Money in the account must be allocated in each fiscal
2.4 	year as follows:
2.5 	(1) one-half of money in the account must be used for
2.6 	projects in the counties of Anoka, Chisago, Carver, Dakota,
2.7 	Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington; and 
2.8 	(2) the remainder must be used for projects elsewhere in
2.9 	the state.

2.10 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION; LOCAL ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
 2.11 	$20,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to
2.12 	the commissioner of transportation for the local road
2.13 	improvement program.  Of this amount, $10,000,000 is for
2.14 	construction, reconstruction, or reconditioning of local roads
2.15 	with statewide or regional significance under Minnesota
2.16 	Statutes, section 174.52, subdivision 4, and $10,000,000 is for
2.17 	grants to counties to assist in paying the costs of capital
2.18 	improvement projects on county state-aid highways that are
2.19 	intended primarily to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries,
2.20 	and property damage under Minnesota Statutes, section 174.52,
2.21 	subdivision 4a.

2.22 	Sec. 3. BOND SALE.
 2.23 	To provide the money appropriated in section 2 from the
2.24 	bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and
2.25 	issue bonds of the state in an amount up to $20,000,000 in the
2.26 	manner, on the terms, and with the effect prescribed by
2.27 	Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
2.28 	Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

2.29 	Sec. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.30 	This act is effective the day following final enactment.