1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; mass transit; prohibiting certain expenditures and 
1.3 	planning for streetcar lines;proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, 
1.4 	chapter 174.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. [174.47] STREETCAR PROHIBITIONS.
1.7 		Subdivision 1.Metropolitan Council. The Metropolitan Council must not take 
1.8 	any action or spend any money for study, planning, preliminary engineering, final design, 
1.9 	or construction for a streetcar line. The council must remove all references, other than 
1.10 	references for historical purposes, to any streetcar line from any future revisions to the 
1.11 	council's transportation development guide and the council's regional transit master plan.
1.12 		Subd. 2.Commissioner of transportation. The commissioner of transportation 
1.13 	must not expend any money for study, planning, preliminary engineering, final design, or 
1.14 	construction for a streetcar line. The commissioner must remove all references, other than 
1.15 	references for historical purposes, to any streetcar line from any future revisions to the 
1.16 	state transportation plan and the commissioner's rail system planning.
1.17 		Subd. 3.Regional rail authorities. No regional rail authority may expend any 
1.18 	money for study, planning, preliminary engineering, final design, or construction for a 
1.19 	streetcar line.

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