1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to transportation; appropriating money for 
  1.3             highway noise barriers; authorizing state bonds; 
  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.  [174.54] [HIGHWAY NOISE BARRIER ACCOUNT; 
  1.8   RULES.] 
  1.9      Subdivision 1.  [ACCOUNT CREATED.] The traffic noise 
  1.10  barrier account is established in the transportation fund, 
  1.11  consisting of money appropriated to the account by law and 
  1.12  matching funds from counties or statutory or home rule charter 
  1.13  cities required for project grants approved under this section.  
  1.14  Money in the account is annually appropriated to the 
  1.15  commissioner of transportation. 
  1.16     Subd. 2.  [MATCHING GRANTS.] To the extent funds are 
  1.17  available in the account created in subdivision 1, the 
  1.18  commissioner shall approve matching grants on a competitive 
  1.19  basis to counties or statutory or home rule charter cities for 
  1.20  trunk highway noise barriers, which may include but are not 
  1.21  limited to fences, walls, earthen berms, and landscaping 
  1.22  buffers.  The grants may be dispensed only on a matching basis 
  1.23  with the state providing no more than two-thirds of the cost of 
  1.24  the project when matched by no less than one-third from the 
  1.25  county or city.  The maximum amount of a grant from the state 
  2.1   must not exceed $....... for any county or city for a single 
  2.2   project. 
  2.3      Subd. 3.  [CRITERIA.] The commissioner shall adopt criteria 
  2.4   to implement and administer these grants. 
  2.5      Sec. 2.  [HIGHWAY NOISE BARRIERS.] 
  2.6      $1,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to 
  2.7   the commissioner of transportation for matching grants to 
  2.8   counties or statutory or home rule charter cities for 
  2.9   implementing and financing trunk highway noise barriers pursuant 
  2.10  to section 1. 
  2.11     Sec. 3.  [BOND SALE.] 
  2.12     To provide the money appropriated in this act from the bond 
  2.13  proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance, on request of the 
  2.14  governor, shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount 
  2.15  up to $1,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the 
  2.16  effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 
  2.17  16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 
  2.18  4 to 7. 
  2.19     Sec. 4.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.20     Sections 1 to 3 are effective the day following final 
  2.21  enactment.