MN HF4007

Amends Minnesota Statutes section 297A.992, subdivision 6, to modify grant allocation requirements for the metropolitan area transportation sales tax.

Grant awards must be allocated only for transit purposes including capital improvements to transitways, park-and-ride facilities, feasibility studies and planning, and operating assistance for transitways.

Joint powers board must annually award grants to each minimum guarantee county in an amount no less than the sales tax revenue collected within that county.

Joint powers board must annually award grants totaling no less than 40 percent of sales tax revenue collected for projects in Dakota, Ramsey, or Washington County.

No more than 1.25 percent of total awards may be annually allocated for planning, studies, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of pedestrian and bicycle programs and pathways; effective for grant awards beginning calendar year 2017.