Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: HF2227

HF 2227

FOURTH ENGROSSMENT

Omnibus agricultural and veterans affairs bill
appropriating money; modifying revenue and fund disposition; modifying and
creating funds, fees, and accounts; providing for NextGen energy; and changing
veterans provisions.

ARTICLE 1: AGRICULTURE

Section 1: Summary of
appropriations

Section 2: Agriculture appropriations language
provided.

Section 3: Department of Agriculture appropriation language
provided.

Section 4: Board of Animal Health appropriation language
provided.

Section 5: Agricultural Utilization Research Institute appropriation
language provided.

Section 6: Compensation required language added.

Section 7:
Compensation language modified.

Section 8: Cooperation with federal agencies
language added.

Section 9: Agricultural development grants and contracts
language modified.

Section 10: Establishment and use of label language
modified.

Section 11: License language modified.

Section 12: Minnesota grown
account language modified.

Section 13: Funding sources language
provided.

Section 14: Appropriations must be matched by private funds language
provided.

Section 15: Purpose language modified.

Section 16: Definitions
language modified.

Section 17: Agricultural and environmental revolving
accounts language modified.

Section 18: Application fee language
modified.

Section 19: Loans issued to borrower language modified.

Section 20:
Criminal penalties language modified.

Section 21: Administrative penalties;
citation language added.

Section 22: Collection and disposal language
added.

Section 23: Disposal site requirement language modified.

Section 24:
Application fee language added.

Sections 25-26: Requirement language
modified.

Section 27: Pesticide application on golf courses language
modified.

Section 28: Exemption language provided.

Section 29: Minnesota
Agricultural Fertilizer Research and Education Council language
provided.

Section 30: Minnesota Agricultural Fertilizer Research and Education
Program language provided.

Section 31: Definitions language modified.

Section
32: Eligible person language added.

Section 33: Incident language
provided.

Section 34: Fee language modified.

Section 35: Requirement language
modified.

Section 36: Application; date of issuance language modified.

Section
37: Extent of license language added.

Section 38: Fees; application language
modified.

Section 39: Food Safety and Defense Task Force language
provided.

Section 40: Penalties language modified.

Section 41: Milk houses for
bulk tanks language modified.

Section 42: Rules language modified.

Section 43:
Milk for manufacturing; quality standards language modified.

Section 44:
Indemnity for destroyed cattle language provided.

Section 45: Rules for control
of bovine tuberculosis language provided.

Section 46: Cellulosic biofuel
development language provided.

Section 47: Nextgen energy language
provided.

Section 48: Twenty-five by twenty-five goal language
provided.

Section 49: Specifications language modified.

Section 50:
Application and origination fee language modified.

Section 51: Interest rate
language modified.

Section 52: Disaster Recovery Loan Program language
modified.

Section 53: Livestock Equipment Pilot Loan Program language
modified.

Section 54: Rural finance Authority Revolving Loan Account language
added.

Section 55: Eligibility; beginning farmers language modified.

Section
56: New open air swine basins language modified.

Section 57: Duties language
modified

Section 58: Petroleum replacement goal language modified.

Section 59:
State fair and County fair camping areas language added.

Section 60: County and
district societies language added.

Section 61: Commissioner to evaluate and
report language provided.

Section 62: Waste pesticide task force, report
language provided.

Section 63: Waste pesticide collection, disposal language
provided.

Section 64: Residential antimicrobial pesticide applicator license
study language provided.
Section 65: Animal husbandry working group language
provided.

Section 66: Repealer provided.

ARTICLE 2: VETERANS AFFAIRS

Section
1: Veterans affairs appropriation language provided.

Section 2: Honor guards
language provided.

Section 3: Educational assistance, war survivors and
veterans language provided.

Section 4: Membership language modified.

Section
5: Appointment language modified.

Section 6: Psychological counseling services
report language provided.

ARTICLE 3: MILITARY AFFAIRS

Section 1: Military
appropriation language provided.

Section 2: Military Affairs appropriation
language provided.

Section 3: Honor guards language provided.

Section 4:
Amateur athletics language provided.

Section 5: National Guard nonappropriated
fund instrumentality language provided.

Section 6: Bond sale authorization
reduced language provided.

Section 7: Repealer provided.

JAJ 5/2/7