Taxation-Gasoline and Special Fuels Legislation - Minnesota

HF 2800 FOURTH ENGROSSMENT Transportation finance bill appropriating money for highway maintenance, local roads, emergency relief related to the I-35W bridge collapse, establishing a bridge improvement program; issuing bonds; and modifying motor fuel taxes. ARTICLE 1-- TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Section 1: Summary of appropriations Section 2: Transportation appropriations are from the trunk highway fund and available for fiscal years 2008 and 2009. Section 3: Appropriations by Fund for FY2009 - General Fund: $2,450,000; Trunk Highway: $85,965,000; C.S.A.H: $52,133,000; M.S.A.S: $13,694,000. Appropriation amounts are specified for the following subdivisions: Transit, Rail, Port Development Assistance, State Roads, Highway Debt Service, Local Roads, County State Aids, and Municipal State Aids. Section 4: Public Safety - $3,653, 000 is appropriated [...]

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3E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for transportation, metropolitan council and public safety activities ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for multimodal systems, airport development and assistance, aviation support and services, transit, freight, rail, state roads, infrastructure investment and planning and support, state road construction, highway debt service, infrastructure operations and maintenance, electronic communications, local roads, county and municipal state aids, department support and buildings; authorizing certain fund transfers and state road construction appropriations use and providing for contingent appropriations, to the metropolitan council for bus transit and rail operations, to the commissioner of public [...]

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HF 946 FIFTH ENGROSSMENT Omnibus transportation finance bill appropriating money for transportation, Metropolitan Council, and public safety activities; issuing bonds; modifying taxes; authorizing local transportation sales taxes; and modifying various fees. ARTICLE 1: TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS Section 1: Summary of appropriations provided. Section 2: Transportation appropriations language provided. Section 3: Transportation; total appropriation detailed. Section 4: Metropolitan council, total appropriation detailed. Section 5: Public safety, total appropriation detailed. Section 6: General contingent accounts detailed. Section 7: Tort claims detailed. Section 8: Driver and vehicle services language modified. Section 9: Federal funds spending authority language modified. Section 10: Airport funding advisory [...]

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HF 3486 SECOND ENGROSSMENT Transportation policy provisions modified, and money appropriated. 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. Subdivision 1. Cooperation with federal authorities. Subdivision 2. Reestablishment costs limit. Section 3: Reestablishment costs limit language modified. Section 4: Expressway language modified. Section 5: Freeway language modified. Section 6: Commercial vehicle drivers at rest areas language provided. Section 7: Sign franchise program language modified. Subdivision 1. Commissioner may establish program. Subdivision 1a. Eligibility criteria for business panels. Subdivision 2. Franchises. Subdivision 3.[...]

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Relating to transportation ARTICLE 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 [...]

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Relating to transportation ARTICLE 1 - MOTOR FUEL TAXES Increasing the gasoline and special fuels tax rates and requiring and providing for annual inflation adjustments by the commissioner of revenue ARTICLE 2 - MOTOR VEHICLE TAXES Expanding the county wheelage tax statewide, increasing the limit and requiring crediting to the road and bridge fund of the county levying the tax; increasing the motor vehicle registration tax on passenger automobiles ARTICLE 3 - SALES TAXES FOR TRANSPORTATION Authorizing and providing for counties to by resolution impose a general sales and use tax to be used for transportation purposes; specifying a tax rate limit; providing for assessment and collection by the commissioner of revenue; authorizing joint powers agreements among counties ARTICLE 4 - TRANSPORTAION IMPACT FEES Authorizing a city or county to by ordinance [...]

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2E 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 [...]

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