1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; appropriating money for highway safety improvements 
1.3 	in Dakota County; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. COUNTY STATE-AID HIGHWAY 46 SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS; 
1.6 	APPROPRIATION.
 1.7 		Subdivision 1.Appropriation. $42,800,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds 
1.8 	fund to the commissioner of transportation for a grant to Dakota County to improve County 
1.9 	State-Aid Highway 46 (160th Street/Brandel Avenue) from marked Trunk Highway 3 east 
1.10 	through the marked Trunk Highway 52 interchange to County Road 48. The project will 
1.11 	reconstruct County State-Aid Highway 46 from a two-lane highway to a divided four-lane 
1.12 	highway from marked Trunk Highway 3 to the marked Trunk Highway 52 interchange to 
1.13 	County Road 48 in the cities of Coates and Rosemount and Empire Township. This 
1.14 	appropriation may be used to preliminary and final design, engineer, acquire right of way 
1.15 	and temporary and permanent easements, inspect, construct, and reconstruct County State-Aid 
1.16 	Highway 46 and other roads to support the completion of the project, including traffic 
1.17 	control, environmental cleanup and mitigation, multipurpose pedestrian and bicycle facilities, 
1.18 	public utility relocation and storm water management.
1.19 		Subd. 2.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the bond 
1.20 	proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue bonds of 
1.21 	the state in an amount up to $42,800,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect 
1.22 	prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota 
1.23 	Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

2.1 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.