1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to highways; changing formula for allocating 
  1.3             funds from county state-aid highway fund; making 
  1.4             clarifying changes; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, 
  1.5             section 162.07, subdivisions 1, 5, 6. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 162.07, 
  1.8   subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  1.9      Subdivision 1.  [FORMULA.] After deducting for 
  1.10  administrative costs and, for the disaster account and, for the 
  1.11  research account, and for the state park roads road account, as 
  1.12  heretofore provided in section 162.06, subdivisions 2 through 5, 
  1.13  the remainder of the total sum provided for in section 162.06, 
  1.14  subdivision 1, shall be identified as the apportionment sum and 
  1.15  shall be apportioned by the commissioner to the several counties 
  1.16  on the basis of the needs of the counties as determined in 
  1.17  accordance with the following formula: 
  1.18     (a) An amount equal to ten 50 percent of the apportionment 
  1.19  sum shall be apportioned equally among the 87 counties so that 
  1.20  each county shall receive of such amount the percentage that its 
  1.21  population bears to the total population of all counties.  
  1.22     (b) An amount equal to ten percent of the apportionment sum 
  1.23  shall be apportioned among the several counties so that each 
  1.24  county shall receive of such amount the percentage that its 
  1.25  motor vehicle registration for the calendar year preceding the 
  2.1   one last past, determined by residence of registrants, bears to 
  2.2   the total statewide motor vehicle registration.  
  2.3      (c) An amount equal to 30 percent of the apportionment sum 
  2.4   shall be apportioned among the several counties so that each 
  2.5   county shall receive of such amount the percentage that its 
  2.6   total lane-miles of approved county state-aid highways bears to 
  2.7   the total lane-miles of approved statewide county state-aid 
  2.8   highways.  In 1997 and subsequent years no county may receive, 
  2.9   as a result of an apportionment under this clause based on 
  2.10  lane-miles rather than miles of approved county state-aid 
  2.11  highways, an apportionment that is less than its apportionment 
  2.12  in 1996. 
  2.13     (d) An amount equal to 50 percent of the apportionment sum 
  2.14  shall be apportioned among the several counties so that each 
  2.15  county shall receive of such amount the percentage that its 
  2.16  money needs bears to the sum of the money needs of all of the 
  2.17  individual counties; provided, that the percentage of such 
  2.18  amount that each county is to receive shall be adjusted so that 
  2.19  each county shall receive in 1958 a total apportionment at least 
  2.20  ten percent greater than its total 1956 apportionments from the 
  2.21  state road and bridge fund; and provided further that those 
  2.22  counties whose money needs are thus adjusted shall never receive 
  2.23  a percentage of the apportionment sum less than the percentage 
  2.24  that such county received in 1958.  
  2.25     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 162.07, 
  2.26  subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
  2.27     Subd. 5.  [SCREENING BOARD.] On or before September 1 of 
  2.28  each year the county engineer of each county shall forward to 
  2.29  the commissioner, on forms prepared by the commissioner, all 
  2.30  information relating to the mileage, in lane-miles, of the 
  2.31  county state-aid highway system in the county, and the money 
  2.32  needs of the county that the commissioner deems necessary in 
  2.33  order to apportion the county state-aid highway fund in 
  2.34  accordance with the formula heretofore set forth in subdivision 
  2.35  1.  Upon receipt of the information the commissioner shall 
  2.36  appoint a board consisting of the following county engineers: 
  3.1      (1) two county engineers from the metropolitan highway 
  3.2   construction district; 
  3.3      (2) one county engineer from each nonmetropolitan highway 
  3.4   district; and 
  3.5      (3) one additional county engineer from each county with a 
  3.6   population of 175,000 or more.  
  3.7   No county engineer shall be appointed under clause (1) or (2) so 
  3.8   as to serve consecutively for more than four years.  The board 
  3.9   shall investigate and review the information submitted by each 
  3.10  county and shall on or before the first day of November of each 
  3.11  year submit its findings and recommendations in writing as to 
  3.12  each county's lane-mileage and money needs to the commissioner 
  3.13  on a form prepared by the commissioner.  Final determination of 
  3.14  the lane-mileage of each system and the money needs of each 
  3.15  county shall be made by the commissioner.  
  3.16     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 162.07, 
  3.17  subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
  3.18     Subd. 6.  [ESTIMATES TO BE MADE IF INFORMATION NOT 
  3.19  PROVIDED.] In the event that any county shall fail to submit the 
  3.20  information provided for herein in subdivision 5, the 
  3.21  commissioner shall estimate the lane-mileage and the money needs 
  3.22  of the county.  The estimate shall be used in determining the 
  3.23  apportionment formula.  The commissioner may withhold payment of 
  3.24  the amount apportioned to the county until the information is 
  3.25  submitted. 
  3.26     Sec. 4.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  3.27     Sections 1 to 3 are effective July 1, 2003.