Legislature Passes State Budget in Special Session

The Minnesota Legislature wrapped up its work for the 2025 Session on June 9th with a one-day special session.  The Transportation Budget bill was among the bills needing to be passed. The bill includes a number of Transportation Alliance priorities:

  • Electric Vehicle Fee increases
  • A requirement for work zone safety training in the driver's ed curriculum and test
  • Maintenance of new funding from delivery fee, indexing the fuel tax and other funding increases
  • Cash for Local Road Wetland Replacement Program

The Capital Bonding bill included:

  • Funding for major and smaller local bridges: $31M
  • Funding for local roads: $47M
  • Funding for Local Road Wetland Replacement program: $5M