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

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; HIGHWAY AND BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION.
 1.6 	(a) $750,000,000 is appropriated for fiscal year 2007 from the general fund to the 
1.7 	commissioner of transportation for construction, reconstruction, and improvement of 
1.8 	highway systems, including design-build contracts and consultant usage to support these 
1.9 	activities. This includes the cost of actual payments to landowners for lands acquired for 
1.10 	highway rights-of-way, payments to lessees, interest subsidies, and relocation expenses. 
1.11 	The commissioner of transportation may use up to $127,500,000 of this appropriation for 
1.12 	program delivery. This is a onetime appropriation. Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, 
1.13 	section 16A.28, this appropriation is available until expended.
1.14 	(b) Ninety-five percent of the money appropriated under this section must be used in 
1.15 	the same manner as money from the highway user tax distribution fund and distributed 
1.16 	as follows:
1.17 	(1) 62 percent to the trunk highway fund;
1.18 	(2) 29 percent to the county state-aid highway fund; and
1.19 	(3) nine percent to the municipal state-aid street fund.
1.20 	(c) The remaining five percent of the money appropriated under this section must 
1.21 	be used in the same manner as the five percent of the highway user tax distribution fund 
1.22 	apportioned under Minnesota Statutes, section 161.081, deposited in the county state-aid 
1.23 	highway fund, and distributed as follows:
1.24 	(1) 30.5 percent to the town road account under Minnesota Statutes, section 162.081;
2.1 	(2) 16 percent to the town bridge account under Minnesota Statutes, section 161.082, 
2.2 	subdivision 2a; and
2.3 	(3) 53.5 percent to the flexible highway account under Minnesota Statutes, section 
2.4 	161.081, subdivision 3.

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