Law and Government Legislation regarding 'Metropolitan Area' in Minnesota

TICLE 1 - COUNTY WHEELAGE TAX Expanding the county wheelage tax statewide, increasing the limit and requiring crediting to the road and bridge fund of the county levying the tax; modifying certain definitions under motor vehicle registration tax provisions ARTICLE 2 - VEHICLE REGISTRATION TAX Modifying the imposition of the motor vehicle registration tax on passenger automobiles in subsequent years; defining certain terms for exceptions purposes ARTICLE 3 - MOTOR VEHICLE SALES TAX Creating transit fund and accounts; establishing phase in of motor vehicles sales tax revenues to transportation ARTICLE 4 - FUEL TAX Increasing the gasoline and special fuels tax rates and providing for annual inflation adjustments by the commissioner of revenue ARTICLE 5 - COUNTY STATE-AID FUND DISTRIBUTION Modifying the county state aid highway fund apportionment [...]

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4E Relating to transportation; classifying certain department of transportation (DOT) data relating to market research, overhead rates and bid escrow; authorizing a state agency or a political subdivision to enter property for purposes of investigation, monitoring, testing, surveying or boring to perform geotechnical investigations before eminent domain proceedings, requiring notification, prohibiting unnecessary property damage; providing a limit on business reestablishment costs; defining expressway; modifying the definition of freeway; requiring the commissioner allow commercial motor vehicle operators subject to hours of service regulations under certain federal regulations to stop and park continuously for up to a certain period of time as necessary at safety rest areas and travel information centers; modifying voyageur highway description; designating I-94 as the Purple Heart trail; designating a certain portion [...]

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1E Providing for election rather than appointment of members of the metropolitan council, specifying the term; requiring the filing of economic interest statements by candidates for or members of the council with the state campaign finance and public disclosure board; specifying certain campaign expenditure and contribution limits; providing for public subsidies, specifying funding, eligibility, certification, payment and match requirements; providing for the filing of affidavits of candidacy and nominating petitions, for the redistricting of metropolitan council districts, for the allocation of election expenses, for placement of candidate names on the nonpartisan primary ballot and for election contests; prescribing a procedure for the filling of council member vacancies; including the metropolitan council under the definition of candidate for financial reporting and fair campaign practices purposes; excluding metropolitan [...]

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TICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; reducing certain prior appropriations to the pollution control agency for water, multi media and administration, commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for the lands and minerals budget and iron ore cooperative agreements, water resource management, parks and recreation and fish and wildlife management, ecological services, enforcement budget and for operations support, board of water and soil resources (BOWSR) for cost sharing contract for native buffers, county cooperative weed management programs, drainage assistance program and rehabilitation, erosion and sediment control projects, and metropolitan council for metropolitan area regional parks maintenance and operation; appropriating money to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for forest, trails and waterways management and modifying prior appropriation requirements

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TICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS "Minnesota Health Act"; establishing the Minnesota health plan to provide residents all medically necessary health care services; specifying health plan requirements; defining certain terms; providing for ethics and conflict of interest; requiring certain data sharing ARTICLE 2 - ELIGIBILITY Providing for eligibility to all state residents; requiring the Minnesota health board to establish a procedure to enroll residents and provide enrollees with appropriate identification, allowing health care coverage for residents temporarily residing out of state, visitors, nonresident persons working in the state and retiree benefits; providing for presumptive eligibility ARTICLE 3 - BENEFITS Authorizing eligible persons to receive services under the Minnesota health plan from any licensed participating providers; prohibiting provider patient care refusal [...]

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Relating to transportation; creating a transit fund; changing the name of the greater Minnesota transit fund and metropolitan area transit fund to the greater Minnesota transit account and the metropolitan area account; modifying the percentage of motor vehicle sales tax revenues required to be deposited in the highway user tax distribution and the metropolitan area and greater Minnesota transit accounts; defining metropolitan transportation area and imposing a sales and use tax in the area; providing for tax collection; creating the metropolitan transportation sales tax account for the use of the metropolitan council, for capital and operating costs for bus, rail and paratransit service, to provide implementation of the 2030 transportation policy plan and for annual distribution to counties; specifying purposes for county use of distributed funds, specifying eligibility and requiring the metropolitan council to report

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Modifying metropolitan area light rail transit (LRT) planning, designing and construction; requiring the metropolitan council to identify in the transportation policy plan heavily traveled corridors to be benefited by transitways; requiring the council to designate locally preferred alternative transit modes after locally directed studies; requiring the governor to designate the metropolitan council or the state acting through the department of transportation (DOT) as the responsible authority for each metropolitan area proposed light rail transit facility; requiring the DOT to transfer all constructed facilities, equipment and property to the metropolitan council upon LRT facility completion; authorizing the metropolitan council to plan, design, acquire, construct and equip LRT facilities in the metropolitan area; specifying metropolitan area applicability; repealing the requirement prohibiting the seeking of financial [...]

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Establishing a transit improvement center grant program for increasing the effectiveness of a mass transit project by incorporating modes of transportation with commercial and housing development as well as providing a clean and pleasant place for pedestrian use; specifying certain duties of the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED); specifying application and content requirements for transit improvement center plans; requiring annual status report to the legislature; creating a redevelopment and transit improvement investment fund for making loans to eligible organizations for public infrastructure including parks, walkways and parking facilities, environmental infrastructure, remediation, site acquisition, blight mitigation and geotechnical connections; providing for investment authority and specifying requirements for state investments; appropriating money to the commissioner for the loan program [...]

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TICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for multimodal systems including airport development and assistance, aviation support and services, transit, freight and infrastructure for state and local roads, for highway debt service, for electronic communications and for general support and services, to the metropolitan council for bus transit and the Hiawatha light rail transit (LRT) line and to the commissioner of public safety for administration and related services, for public safety officer survivor benefits, for technical support services, for the state patrol including capital security, commercial vehicle enforcement, for driver and vehicle services and for traffic and pipeline safety; authorizing and providing for general contingent accounts and for the payment of tort claims ARTICLE [...]

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TICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for multimodal systems including airport development and assistance, aviation support and services, transit, freight and infrastructure for state and local roads, for highway debt service, for electronic communications and for general support and services, to the metropolitan council for bus transit and the Hiawatha light rail transit (LRT) line and to the commissioner of public safety for administration and related services, for public safety officer survivor benefits, for technical support services, for the state patrol including capitol security, commercial vehicle enforcement, for driver and vehicle services and for traffic and pipeline safety; authorizing and providing for general contingent accounts and for the payment of tort claims ARTICLE [...]

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4E Providing for the collection and recycling or reuse of video display devices; providing for commissioner of revenue data collected under the video display device recycling program and registration fees, authorizing certain disclosures; defining certain terms; establishing a registration program under the pollution control agency (PCA) and specifying certain manufacturer labeling and registration requirements for the sale of new household video display devices, specifying collector and recycler registration requirements, requiring PCA web site information maintenance; establishing the electronic waste account in the environmental fund, requiring annual manufacturer registration fee payment to the department of revenue, appropriating money annually until a certain date from the account to the PCA for administration purposes and for distribution of competitive grants to counties and private entities outside the metropolitan

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TICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for multimodal systems including transit and rail, port development assistance, for state roads including infrastructure operations and maintenance, infrastructure investment support and highway debt service, for local roads including county and municipal state aids and for state aid appropriation adjustments and transfers, to the commissioner of public safety for the state patrol for additional troopers, to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for transportation emergency relief for victims of the I-35W bridge collapse, to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for the center for transportation studies to assess the public policy implications of financing new and improved transportation infrastructure, requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date ARTICLE 2 - TRUNK HIGHWAY [...]

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TICLE 1 - INCOME AND FRANCHISE TAXES Modifying the determination of debt under the revenue recapture act; requiring birth dates to be included in income tax returns; modifying withholding statement requirements by electronic means provisions; clarifying regulated investment companies requirement to file reports with the commissioner of revenue; prescribing penalties for partnership of S corporation filing with an incorrect tax identification number; clarifying penalties for excessive property tax refunds; requiring tax preparers identification numbers; clarifying a work opportunity credit provision; modifying the bovine testing credit; modifying the inflation adjustment for the dependent care credit and working family credit; modifying the inflation adjustment for the alternative minimum tax on preference items; modifying the definition of dependent for property tax refund purposes; modifying the determination [...]

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1E Relating to public finance; providing terms and conditions relating to the issuance of obligations and the financing of public improvements and services; modifying certain collateral amount requirements for the deposit of local public funds; extending the time