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Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Committee report: To pass Bill Text
Modifying certain school bus definitions and drivers license requirements
(me)
Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Establishing procedures and standards for contracting for private student
transportation services; defining certain terms; specifying certain requirements
of participating school districts; prescribing district duties before entering
into a privatization contract; determining status of certain privatization
contract data
(me)
Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Relating to pupil transportation; requiring lap belts or lap and shoulder belts
for all school buses by a certain date
(je)
Also tagged in: Airports and Aircraft, Appropriations, Children and Minors, Cities and Towns-Specific, Contracts, Councils, Counties-Specific, Data Practices and Privacy, Highways, Roads, and Bridges, Metropolitan Area, Motor Vehicles, Motor Vehicles-Carriers, Omnibus, Popular Names, Public Safety Department, Railroads, Safety, Task Forces, Traffic Regulations, Transportation and Transportation Department
Latest Action: 04/21/2008 - Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed Bill TextHF 1351 THIRD ENGROSSMENT Omnibus transportation policy bill providing policy changes relating to transportation, highways, drivers' licenses and railroads, and appropriating money. ARTICLE 1: TRANSPORTATION POLICY Section 1: Geotechnical investigation before eminent domain proceedings language provided. Section 2: Cooperation with federal authorities; reestablishment costs limit language modified. Section 3: Reestablishment costs limit language modified. Section 4: "Expressway" definition provided. Section 5: "Freeway" definition modified. Section 6: Commercial vehicle drivers at rest areas language provided. Section 7: Sign franchise program language modified. Section 8: Voyager Highway language modified. Section 9: Purple Heart Trail language provided. Section 10: Dallas Sams Memorial Highway language [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Received from Senate Bill Text
School bus driver physical examination requirements satisfied by Federal
Aviation Administration medical certificate.
Also tagged in: Appropriations, Cities and Towns-Specific, Claims, Counties-Specific, Crimes and Criminals, Crimes and Criminals-Victims, Data Practices and Privacy, Drivers Licenses, Training, and ID Cards, Finance Department, Highways, Roads, and Bridges, Metropolitan Area, Motor Vehicles, Omnibus, Popular Names, Public Safety Department, Railroads, Taxation, Traffic Regulations, Transportation and Transportation Department, Weights and Measures
Latest Action: 05/16/2008 - Motion did not prevail Bill TextHF 3800 FOURTH ENGROSSMENT Omnibus transportation and transit policy bill; Transportation-related program or activity provisions modified and added, penalties imposed, reports required, and technical and clarifying corrections made. ARTICLE 1 -- TRANSPORTATION POLICY Section 1: No legal title without certificate language provided. Section 2: Mayor William "Bill" Sandberg Memorial Bridge language added. Section 3: Insurance standards language added. Section 4: Tax authorized language modified. Section 5: Passenger automobile language modified. Section 6: Special mobile equipment language modified. Section 7: Vehicles exempt from tax, fees, or plate display language modified. Section 8: Spotter trucks language added. Section 9: Concrete pumps and street-sweeping vehicles language added. Section 10: Disability plates;[...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill TextAuthorizing and providing for intermediate school district #287, Hennepin and Wright counties to enter into an agreement to establish a cooperative organization to provide regional pupil transportation services upon a majority vote of the school board; specifying certain resolution adoption and publication requirements; providing for the creation and naming of the public corporation with an assigned identification number to operate the transportation center; requiring and providing for center board governance; specifying certain membership requirements and powers and duties; providing for the dissolution of the center; entitling the center to certain transportation revenue; authorizing the transfer or rental of school buses or other assets to the center; providing for regional school bus units of school bus drivers and maintenance, clerical, administrative and technical workers under the public employment labor relations show full description
Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Education Bill Text
1E Relating to drivers licenses; requiring the class D curriculum to include
instruction on the duties of drivers encountering bicycles, other nonmotorized
vehicles and pedestrians; specifying a minimum amount of time for instruction on
the safety of school children; requiring the commissioner of public safety to
include pupil transportation safety laws in the drivers training manual and
license examination; repealing the requirement for the commissioner to adopt
rules for instruction on the safety of school children
(ra)
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the commissioner of education for a grant to independent
school district #200, Hastings for additional school bus lease expenses required
as a result of the Hastings bridge rehabilitation project
(ra)
Also tagged in: Appropriations, Cities and Towns-Specific, Councils, Counties-Specific, Drivers Licenses, Training, and ID Cards, Finance Department, Fuels, Highways, Roads, and Bridges, Metropolitan Area, Motor Vehicles, Police and Peace Officers, Public Safety Department, Railroads, Schools, Taxation, Traffic Regulations, Transportation and Transportation Department, Veterans and Veterans Affairs Department, Weights and Measures
Latest Action: 04/30/2008 - HF substituted on Calendar HF3800 Bill Text4E Relating to transportation ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION POLICY Modifying or adding provisions to highways, motor vehicles, vehicle registration, fuel tax agreement fees, traffic regulations and surcharges, vehicle parking ordinances, commercial vehicles and vehicles combinations and permits, design build construction, pupil transportation and school bus drivers, drivers licenses, driver training, motor fuels, the state patrol, transit and paratransit planning, urban partnership agreement implementation, the transfer of right of way to state rail bank, nonmotorized transportation, transportation finance, and other transportation related programs or practices; repealing surcharge for special veteran license plates; requiring studies and reports; classifying data for design build transportation project audio recordings of meetings with proposers; authorizing the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to show full description
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Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Appropriating money to the commissioner of education for a grant to independent
school district #200, Hastings for additional school bus lease expenses required
as a result of the Hastings bridge rehabilitation project
(ra)
Also tagged in: Airports and Aircraft, Children and Minors, Cities and Towns-Specific, Contracts, Councils, Counties-Specific, Data Practices and Privacy, Highways, Roads, and Bridges, Metropolitan Area, Motor Vehicles, Motor Vehicles-Carriers, Omnibus, Popular Names, Public Safety Department, Railroads, Safety, Task Forces, Traffic Regulations, Transportation and Transportation Department
Latest Action: 05/15/2007 - HF substituted by motion [HF1351] Bill Text4E 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 [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/19/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Modifying the inspection of school and head start buses; eliminating the state
patrol as school bus inspectors; requiring certification of school bus
inspectors by commissioner of public safety after receiving training by state
patrol; specifying terms and conditions for inspectors, providing for suspension
of certification; requiring inspectors to issue inspection reports; requiring
school buses and head start buses to display inspection decal
(me)
Latest Action: 04/27/2007 - Jt. rule 2.03, referred to Rules and Administration Bill TextRelating to school buses; allowing school districts to provide bus transportation along varying bus routes for early childhood family education (ECFE) participants; modifying student rider bus safety training requirements; allowing districts contracting for transportation an exemption from the standard cost allocation method for authorized and nonauthorized transportation categories under certain conditions; including multifunction school activity buses in the school bus definition and modifying types A and C school bus definitions, requiring multifunctional activity buses to meet federal safety standards; prohibiting drivers from operating buses while communicating on cellular (cell) phones; modifying the bus driver seat belt requirement; making conforming amendments; updating the applicable date for bus standards; modifying battery requirements, body standards, seat cushion requirements, class D drivers license endorsements [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Education Bill Text
1E Relating to drivers licenses; requiring the class D curriculum to include
instruction on the duties of drivers encountering bicycles, other nonmotorized
vehicles and pedestrians; specifying a minimum amount of time for instruction on
the safety of school children; requiring the commissioner of public safety to
include pupil transportation safety laws in the drivers training manual and
license examination; repealing the requirement for the commissioner to adopt
rules for instruction on the safety of school children
(ra)
Latest Action: 03/15/2007 - Withdrawn and re-referred to Education Bill TextRelating to student transportation; establishing procedures and standards for contracting for private student transportation services; defining certain terms; specifying certain contract requirements for school districts request for proposals for private contractors and privatization contracts and specifying certain responder disclosure requirements; requiring review of contract costs by a district; specifying certain data practices compliance requirements; regulating school bus drivers pay and rights to refuse to operate the bus for safety related repair purposes; establishing a pilot project to investigate potential cost savings and benefits of multidistrict cooperation on student transportation and efficiency, appropriating money to department of education for a grant to special school district #1, Minneapolis and independent school district #625, St. Paul for acquiring land, constructing necessary facilities, acquiring [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text
1E Relating to student transportation; establishing certain contract
requirements for private student transportation services; allowing school bus
drivers to be paid for actual time worked and the right to refuse operation of
buses under certain conditions
(me)
Also tagged in: Banks and Financial Institutions, Credit and Credit Services, Drivers Licenses, Training, and ID Cards, Motor Vehicles-Carriers, Motor Vehicles-Registration, Licensing, Taxation, Motorcycles and Motorbikes, Public Safety Department, Recreation and Amusement, Telecommunications and Information Technology Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Increasing motor vehicle registration taxes for passenger automobiles, hearses,
motorcycles, farm trucks, trailers, truck tractor and semitrailer combinations,
buses and commuter vans, recreational vehicles, motorized bicycles and school
buses; requiring the commissioner of public safety to establish by a certain
date a credit debit card transaction system for fees acceptance; increasing
vehicle title, drivers license, permit and identification card fees
(rt)
Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill TextAuthorizing and providing for intermediate school district #287, Hennepin and Wright counties to enter into an agreement to establish a cooperative organization to provide regional pupil transportation services upon a majority vote of the school board; specifying certain resolution adoption and publication requirements; providing for the creation and naming of the public corporation with an assigned identification number to operate the transportation center; requiring and providing for center board governance; specifying certain membership requirements and powers and duties; providing for the dissolution of the center; entitling the center to certain transportation revenue; authorizing the transfer or rental of school buses or other assets to the center; providing for regional school bus units of school bus drivers and maintenance, clerical, administrative and technical workers under the public employment labor relations show full description
Also tagged in: Appropriations, Cities and Towns-Specific, Councils, Counties-Specific, Drivers Licenses, Training, and ID Cards, Finance Department, Fuels, Highways, Roads, and Bridges, Metropolitan Area, Motor Vehicles, Police and Peace Officers, Public Safety Department, Railroads, Schools, Taxation, Traffic Regulations, Transportation and Transportation Department, Veterans and Veterans Affairs Department, Weights and Measures
Latest Action: 04/30/2008 - HF substituted on Calendar HF3800 Bill Text4E Relating to transportation ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION POLICY Modifying or adding provisions to highways, motor vehicles, vehicle registration, fuel tax agreement fees, traffic regulations and surcharges, vehicle parking ordinances, commercial vehicles and vehicles combinations and permits, design build construction, pupil transportation and school bus drivers, drivers licenses, driver training, motor fuels, the state patrol, transit and paratransit planning, urban partnership agreement implementation, the transfer of right of way to state rail bank, nonmotorized transportation, transportation finance, and other transportation related programs or practices; repealing surcharge for special veteran license plates; requiring studies and reports; classifying data for design build transportation project audio recordings of meetings with proposers; authorizing the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to show full description
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