Minnesota legislation · 94th Legislature 2025-2026
Minnesota SF4489: New multimodal shared-use trail from La Crescent to Hokah and Houston bond issue and appropriation
Status: In committee, March 17, 2026
What the bill says
A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for a new multimodal shared-use trail from the city of La Crescent to the cities of Hokah and Houston to complete the Root River State Trail; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds. new text begin [ADDED: Subdivision 1.] new text end new text begin [ADDED: Appropriation.] new text end new text begin [ marked Trunk Highway 16, following the abandoned rail bed and corridor; County Trunk Highway 7; and County Trunk Highway 25. The trail may be routed through existing Department of Natural Resources and state lands and.
From the introduced text, March 13, 2026:
A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for a new multimodal shared-use trail from the city of La Crescent to the cities of Hokah and Houston to complete the Root River State Trail; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds. new text begin [ADDED: Subdivision 1.] new text end new text begin [ADDED: Appropriation.] new text end new text begin [ marked Trunk Highway 16, following the abandoned rail bed and corridor; County Trunk Highway 7; and County Trunk Highway 25. The trail may be routed through existing Department of Natural Resources and state lands and easements and public and private lands without the use of eminent domain, as necessary for the continuous routing of the shared-use path along approximately 18 miles of trail corridor. This appropriation is for Phase 1 of the project.] new text end new text begin [ADDED: (b) Any unspent portion of this appropriation remaining after completion of the project in paragraph (a), after written notice to the commissioner of management and budget, is available for final engineering and construction of the bike trail.] new text end new text begin [ADDED: Subd. 2.] new text end new text begin [ADDED: Bond sale.] new text end new text begin [ADDED: To provide the money appropriated in this section from the bond proceeds …