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House panel advances Ag Commissioner budget amendment; totals $53.2 million in all funds
Summary
Representative Brandenburg presented and the House Appropriations Committee’s Government Operations Division adopted an amendment to House Bill 1009, the Agriculture Commissioner’s budget, setting total all-funds spending at $53,213,000 and adding one-time and ongoing adjustments including a $3 million grasslands appropriation funded from Bank of North Dakota profits.
Representative Brandenburg, the bill carrier, walked the House Appropriations Committee’s Government Operations Division through amendment 25015301002 to House Bill 1009, the Agriculture Commissioner’s budget, and explained line-by-line changes before the panel voted to attach the amendment and give the bill a do-pass recommendation.
The amendment sets total all-funds spending for the agency at $53,213,000 and makes both base adjustments and one-time allocations. Brandenburg told the committee the amendment adds $1,100,000 for salary and benefit increases, $877,000 to replace amounts previously held in the new-and-vacant FTE pool, $520,000 for operating expenses and $4,100 for a capital copier purchase. Grants of $1,800,000 are included in…
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