Motor Vehicles-Registration, Licensing, Taxation Legislation - Minnesota

1E Relating to transportation; requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to consider certain insurance standards when reviewing data and information for the development of safety improvements for trunk highways and state aid projects; modifying the definitions of passenger automobile, special mobile equipment and commercial motor vehicle; reclassifying certain trucks and vans for motor vehicle registration purposes; defining spotter trucks, regulating use and prescribing method of registration; modifying provisions relating to registration and use of special mobile equipment; requiring the commissioner of public safety to impose a motor vehicle registration tax on mobile equipment permanently or temporarily mounted to a commercial motor vehicle chassis under certain conditions; requiring the commissioner of transportation in cooperation with the metropolitan council to study possible adoption of a complete [...]

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Relating to transportation finance ARTICLE 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 [...]

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Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for transportation, the metropolitan council and public safety purposes ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for aeronautics, for airport development and assistance, for aviation support and services, for transit and freight, for state roads for infrastructure investment and planning and construction, operations and maintenance and electronic communications, for local roads including county state aids and municipal state aids, for general support and services, for the town road sign replacement program, for certain transfers with the approval of the commissioner of finance, for the use of state road construction appropriations and for the transfer of funds for certain contingent appropriations,[...]

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3E Relating to elections ARTICLE 1 - ELECTIONS AND VOTING Prohibiting postsecondary residential housing list use and dissemination by county auditors and the secretary of state; prohibiting certain compensation for voter registration application solicitation, collection or acceptance and prohibiting compensation deprivation or reduction for failure to solicit or accept a minimum voter registration applications; modifying certain signature requirements on registration applications for individuals unable to write; modifying the same day voter registration oath recording requirements; counting rejected absentee and mail ballots for registration purposes; modifying return envelope design; requiring absentee voting in person county auditor electronic ballot marker availability for disabled individual accessibility, permitting any county governing body to authorize an absentee ballot board and modifying [...]

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Relating to transportation finance ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for airport development and assistance, aviation support services, transit, freight and rail, for state road infrastructure operations, maintenance and investment support, state road construction, highway debt service, electronic communications, county and municipal state aids, the town road sign replacement program, department support and buildings, authorizing certain fund transfers, providing for the use of state road construction and contingent trunk highway appropriations, to the metropolitan council for bus transit and rail operations, to the commissioner of public safety for the office of communications, public safety support including security planning for the Republican national convention, technical support services, the state patrol for patrolling [...]

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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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