1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; appropriating money for
1.3 	rural transit services in southern Minnesota;
1.4 	proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes,
1.5 	chapter 174.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. [174.246] APPROPRIATION; REGION NINE TRANSIT.
1.8 	$240,000 is annually appropriated from the transit
1.9 	assistance fund to the commissioner of transportation for
1.10 	disbursement via the department's Office of Transit to the
1.11 	Region Nine Development Commission for the coordination of rural
1.12 	transit services in the counties of Blue Earth, Brown,
1.13 	Faribault, Le Sueur, Martin, Nicollet, Sibley, Waseca, and
1.14 	Watonwan.  This appropriation must fund one system coordinator
1.15 	position and two dispatch coordinators to serve this nine-county
1.16 	area.