Section 9 (1.21, SF 87, Sen. Dibble) amends the corridors of commerce program to include “main street improvement” in the categories of eligible types of projects.

Section 10 (2.3, SF 87 Sen. Dibble) makes projects within a city eligible for corridors of commerce funding.

Section 11 (2.21, SF 87, Sen. Dibble) clarifies criteria for project selection within the corridors of commerce program.

Section 12 (3.17, Amendment, Sen. Tomassoni) requires the Commissioner of Transportation, to the greatest extent feasible, to utilize products, materials, and equipment that are made in America, in highway construction and maintenance projects.

Section 17 (3.22, SF 2036, Sen. Skoe) specifies that MnDOT, for highway construction on a described reservation, may award a preference for Indian-owned contractors not to exceed ten percent, or negotiate an agreement with the tribal authority to award and administer the construction contract, funded by MnDOT, who must determine that the tribal authority’s proposed cost is reasonable.

Section 20 (4.6, Amendment, Sen. Westrom) defines “electronic message” for purposes of the law that prohibits texting (sending or receiving an electronic message) to exclude data or images from global positioning systems or navigation systems.

Section 29 (4.17, Amendment, Sen. Pederson) defines “electronic advertising device” as one that is capable of displaying digital content that can be changed.  This does not include animation, flashing lights, and video.  This section is effective the day following enactment.

Section 30 (4.26, Amendment, Sen. Pederson) provides that the prohibition on advertising devices with distracting flashing or moving lights does not include an electronic advertising device with digital content that changes no more frequently than every six seconds.  This section is effective the day following final enactment.

Section 31 (5.17, SF 87, Sen. Dibble) requires the Commissioner of Transportation to submit required reports concerning highway construction training on an annual basis, instead of the current biennial basis.

Section 32 (5.34, SF 87 Sen. Dibble) requires the Commissioner of Transportation to submit required reports concerning the disadvantaged business enterprise program on an annual basis, instead of the current biennial basis.

Section 33 (6.22, SF 87 Sen. Dibble) amends language concerning the Transportation Economic Development program to refer to performance measures developed by the Commissioner of Employment and Economic Development, and the extent to which the project promotes access to jobs and connections between transportation modes.

Section 35 (7.5, SF 87, Sen. Dibble) amends language of the rural road safety account to provide that money must be used to improve safety for all road users.

Section 36 (7.23, SF 87, Sen. Dibble) provides that grants under the local road improvement fund must be used to improve safety for all road users.

Section 45 (8.8, Amendment, Sen. Tomassoni) requires the Metropolitan Council, to the greatest extent feasible, to utilize products, materials, and equipment that are made in America, in construction and maintenance projects.

Section 47 (8.13,SF 939, Sen. Westrom) repeals the sunset of the statute that allows operation of mini trucks on public roads if approved by local road authorities.

Section 48 (8.19, Amendment, Sen. Dibble) expands the existing required study to be done by the commissioner of public safety regarding oil transportation to “other hazardous materials”.  The evaluation must analyze public safety impacts of ethanol transportation by rail, recommend actions to prevent rail transportation incidents, including examination of alternative routing and implications of colocation of freight and passenger rail, educate residents along rail corridors, and recommend minimum liability insurance requirements for rail shippers and carriers and minimum equipment requirements for first responders along high-risk rail corridors.

Section 49 (9.16, SF 1136, Sen. Hoffman) requires that owners of state and state-leased parking facilities must not display any form of the words handicap, disabled, or disability on parking signs.  Signs must be replaced in the ordinary course of sign modification and replacement.  The section is effective July 1, 2019.

Section 50 (9.27, Amendment, Sen. Reinert) requires MnDOT to grade the land on a Duluth Highway 23 project such that a bicycle and pedestrian path approaches street level as it emerges from under the bridge over Kingsbury Creek.

Section 56 (10.1, Amendment, Sen. Senjem) requires the commissioner of public safety, by December 1, 2015, to recommend to the transportation committees, a means by which commercial truck drivers may be provided with fingerprinting services to meet federal requirements to obtain a hazardous materials endorsement on a commercial driver’s license.