1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; appropriating funds for accelerated highway 
1.3 	construction projects.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; ACCELERATED HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION.
 1.6 	(a) $500,000,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of 
1.7 	transportation for construction, reconstruction, and improvement of trunk highways, 
1.8 	including design-build contracts and consultant usage to support these activities, the 
1.9 	cost of actual payments to landowners for lands acquired for highway rights-of-way, 
1.10 	payments to lessees, interest subsidies, and relocation expenses. The commissioner of 
1.11 	transportation may use up to $85,000,000 of this appropriation for program delivery. 
1.12 	This is a onetime appropriation.
1.13 	(b) The money appropriated under this section must be used for those projects 
1.14 	identified in the Minnesota Department of Transportation's 2007-2009 state transportation 
1.15 	improvement program, and must be allocated as follows:
1.16 	(1) 50 percent to the department's metropolitan district; and 
1.17 	(2) 50 percent to greater Minnesota.

1.18 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2007.