Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Minnesota House Bill HF3176 Compare Versions

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1	1	1.1 A bill for an act
2	2	1.2 relating to transportation; requiring rail corridor service analysis for passenger rail
3	3	1.3 service to Fargo and Kansas City; requiring commissioner of transportation to
4	4	1.4 apply for federal passenger rail corridor identification and development
5	5	1.5 programming; appropriating money.
6	6	1.6BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
7	7	1.7 Section 1. PASSENGER RAIL; RAIL CORRIDOR SERVICE ANALYSIS;
8	8	1.8INTERCITY RAIL; APPROPRIATION.
9	9	1.9 Subdivision 1.Corridors; identification and development required.(a) The
10	10	1.10commissioner of transportation must apply to the Federal Railroad Administration's Corridor
11	11	1.11Identification and Development Program established by the Infrastructure Investment and
12	12	1.12Jobs Act under United States Code, title 49, section 25101(a), for planning and development
13	13	1.13of two intercity passenger rail corridors with service originating in and extending beyond
14	14	1.14Minnesota. The two routes include:
15	15	1.15 (1) extension of passenger rail service from St. Paul to Fargo, North Dakota; and
16	16	1.16 (2) establishment of new passenger rail service from St. Paul to Kansas City, Missouri,
17	17	1.17that includes service to Northfield, Albert Lea, and Des Moines, Iowa.
18	18	1.18 (b) Upon successful application and award of development funds from the Federal
19	19	1.19Railroad Administration for the routes developed in paragraph (a), the commissioner must
20	20	1.20execute and complete all Step 1 scoping requirements under the Corridor Identification and
21	21	1.21Development Program for both routes in paragraph (a).
22	22	1.22 Subd. 2.Appropriation.(a) $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2026 is appropriated from the
23	23	1.23general fund to the commissioner of transportation for the following:
24	24	1Section 1.
25	25	REVISOR KRB/MI 25-0485103/14/25
26	26	State of Minnesota
27	27	This Document can be made available
28	28	in alternative formats upon request
29	29	HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
30	30	H. F. No. 3176
31	31	NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
32	32	Authored by Koegel04/10/2025
33	33	The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Transportation Finance and Policy 2.1 (1) intercity passenger rail projects in the Phase I corridors level identified in the 2015
34	34	2.2update to the state rail plan under Minnesota Statutes, section 174.03, subdivision 1b;
35	35	2.3 (2) providing state matching funds for obtaining federal grants to complete the Step 2
36	36	2.4service development plan under the Federal Railroad Administration's Corridor Identification
37	37	2.5and Development Program;
38	38	2.6 (3) planning, development, and staffing costs for the required application in subdivision
39	39	2.71, paragraph (a), and completion of the Step 1 scoping requirements under subdivision 1,
40	40	2.8paragraph (b); and
41	41	2.9 (4) grants to political subdivisions for planning and service development activities
42	42	2.10consistent with the passenger rail implementation and policy established in the state rail
43	43	2.11plan under Minnesota Statutes, section 174.03, subdivision 1b, including:
44	44	2.12 (i) project cost estimates;
45	45	2.13 (ii) alternatives analysis;
46	46	2.14 (iii) preliminary engineering;
47	47	2.15 (iv) environmental analysis;
48	48	2.16 (v) benefit cost; or
49	49	2.17 (vi) economic impact analysis.
50	50	2.18 (b) This is a onetime appropriation and is available until June 30, 2028. The appropriation
51	51	2.19is only available for the Minnesota share of project costs.
52	52	2.20 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
53	53	2Section 1.
54	54	REVISOR KRB/MI 25-0485103/14/25