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SF3763 • 2026

U.S Highway 169 to a four-lane highway expansion appropriation

U.S Highway 169 to a four-lane highway expansion appropriation

Budget
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Farnsworth, Heintzeman, Hauschild
Last action
2026-02-23
Official status
Introduction and first reading
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-23 House

    Introduction and first reading

Official Summary Text

U.S Highway 169 to a four-lane highway expansion appropriation

Current Bill Text

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A bill for an act

relating to transportation; appropriating money for expansion of a segment of U.S.

Highway 169 to a four-lane highway; modifying a prior appropriation; amending

Laws 2023, chapter 68, article 1, section 17, subdivision 12.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Laws 2023, chapter 68, article 1, section 17, subdivision 12, is amended to

read:

Subd. 12.

U.S. Highway 169 expansion; Itasca County.

$6,000,000 in fiscal year 2024

is appropriated from the trunk highway fund to the commissioner of transportation for

planning, predesign, design, engineering, and environmental analysis and remediation of

expansion of marked U.S. Highway 169 from a two-lane to a four-lane divided highway

between Taconite and Pengilly. This is a onetime appropriation and is available until June

30,
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2027
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2029
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Sec. 2.
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ITASCA COUNTY; U.S. HIGHWAY 169 EXPANSION; APPROPRIATION.
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$8,000,000 in fiscal year 2027 is appropriated from the trunk highway fund to the

commissioner of transportation for planning, route selection, predesign, design, surface and

mineral title searches, engineering, and environmental analysis and remediation for expansion

of marked U.S. Highway 169 from two lanes to a four-lane divided highway from Itasca

County State-Aid Highway 7 in Taconite to marked Trunk Highway 65 near Pengilly. This

is a onetime appropriation and is available until June 30, 2029.

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