Minnesota SF 3269: Highway toll collection authority elimination; reallocation of certain user fee revenue authorization; appropriating money

Status: Referred to Transportation (as of 2025-04-03)
State: Minnesota · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: SF 3269
Subjects: Highways, Roads, and Bridges, Transportation and Transportation Department
Sponsors: Koran, Howe
Bill Text

1.1 A bill for an act
1.2 relating to transportation; eliminating highway toll collection authority; providing
1.3 for reallocation of certain user fee revenue; appropriating money; amending
1.4 Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 160.845; 160.93, subdivisions 1, 5; 473.4485,
1.5 subdivision 1; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 160.93, subdivisions 2,
1.6 2a.
1.7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.8 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 160.845, is amended to read:
1.9 160.845 RESTRICTIONS ON TOLL FACILITY.
1.10 (a) A road authority, including the governing body of a city, or a private operator may
1.11 not convert, transfer, or utilize any portion of a highway to impose tolls or for use as a toll
1.12 facility. A road authority, including the governing body of a city, or a private operator may
1.13 not limit operation of a commercial motor vehicle, as defined in section 169.011, subdivision
1.14 16, to a toll facility or otherwise require that a commercial motor vehicle use the tolled
1.15 portion of a highway.
1.16 (b) This section does not apply to (1) any toll facility or high-occupancy vehicle lane
1.17 constructed, converted, or established before September 1, 2007, (2) any additional lane,
1.18 including a priced dynamic shoulder lane, high-occupancy vehicle lane, or high-occupancy
1.19 toll lane, added to a highway after September 1, 2007, and (3) any other general purpose
1.20 lane that adds capacity.
1.21 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective July 1, 2025.
1Section 1.
25-05166 as introduced03/24/25 REVISOR KRB/LJ
SENATE
STATE OF MINNESOTA
S.F. No. 3269NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
(SENATE AUTHORS: KORAN and Howe)
OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE
Introduction and first reading135004/03/2025
Referred to Transportation

2.1 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 160.93, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
2.2 Subdivision 1.Fees authorized prohibited.To improve efficiency and provide more
2.3 options to individuals traveling in a trunk highway corridor, The commissioner of
2.4 transportation may must not charge user fees to owners or operators of single-occupant
2.5 vehicles using for the operation of vehicles in dynamic shoulder lanes as designated by the
2.6 commissioner and any designated high-occupancy vehicle lanes. The fees may be collected
2.7 using electronic or other toll-collection methods and may vary in amount with the time of
2.8 day and level of traffic congestion within the corridor. The commissioner shall consult with
2.9 the Metropolitan Council and obtain necessary federal authorizations before implementing
2.10 user fees on a high-occupancy vehicle lane or dynamic shoulder lane. Fees under this section
2.11 are not subject to section 16A.1283.
2.12 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective July 1, 2025.
2.13 Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 160.93, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
2.14 Subd. 5.Dynamic shoulder lanes.(a) The commissioner may designate dynamic
2.15 shoulder lanes on freeways. The commissioner may operate dynamic shoulder lanes as
2.16 priced lanes, general purpose lanes, high-occupancy vehicle lanes, or as shoulders as defined
2.17 in section 169.011, subdivision 74. The commissioner may prescribe the conditions under
2.18 which the lanes may be used.
2.19 (b) The commissioner may not operate a dynamic shoulder lane on marked Trunk
2.20 Interstate Highway 35W from its intersection with marked Trunk Interstate Highway 94 to
2.21 its intersection with marked Trunk Highway 62 as a general purpose lane. A dynamic
2.22 shoulder lane along this portion of marked Trunk Interstate Highway 35W may only be
2.23 used by:
2.24 (1) a vehicle with more than one occupant;
2.25 (2) a single-occupant vehicle if the fee under subdivision 1 is paid;
2.26 (3) (2) a transit bus providing public transportation, as defined in section 174.22,
2.27 subdivision 7; and
2.28 (4) (3) an authorized emergency vehicle, as defined in section 169.011, subdivision 3.
2.29 (c) The commissioner shall must erect signs to indicate when the lanes may be used.
2.30 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective July 1, 2025.
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25-05166 as introduced03/24/25 REVISOR KRB/LJ

3.1 Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 473.4485, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
3.2 Subdivision 1.Definitions.(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have
3.3 the meanings given.
3.4 (b) "Busway" means a form of bus service provided to the public on a regular and ongoing
3.5 basis, including arterial or highway bus rapid transit, that (1) compared to other regular
3.6 route bus service, provides reduced travel time and uses distinct bus stop or station amenities,
3.7 and (2) does not primarily or substantially operate within separated rights-of-way.
3.8 (c) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of transportation.
3.9 (d) "Guideway" means a form of transportation service provided to the public on a
3.1
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