MN HF3522

Modifies the metropolitan area transit account to specify that state appropriations fund only transit system operating expenditures, not capital expenditures, for the seven-county Twin Cities area (Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington counties).

Prohibits the Metropolitan Council from using state appropriations or operating budget reserves to pay for transit capital costs, including capital maintenance, while allowing federal funds to be used for this purpose.

Changes the light rail transit project funding requirement from allowing state money to pay up to ten percent of total capital costs to prohibiting state money from being used for any portion of capital costs.

All provisions are effective the day after final enactment for appropriations and reserves encumbered on or after that date and apply only to the seven specified counties in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.