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Committee moves $350,000 funding for Northern Crops Institute air-extraction system from SIF to local funds; bill recommended for due pass
Summary
The Appropriations - Government Operations Division voted to amend SB2020 to make $350,000 for a Northern Crops Institute pilot-scale mill and air-classification system available from local funds rather than the Strategic Investment and Improvements Fund; the amended bill received a due-pass recommendation.
The Appropriations - Government Operations Division considered amendments to SB2020 and voted to move $350,000 for an air-extraction (pilot-scale mill and air classification) system for the Northern Crops Institute from the Strategic Investment and Improvements Fund (SIF) to local funds, then approved the amended bill for a due-pass recommendation to the full committee.
What the committee did
Brady (committee staff) moved “to further amend the amendments to provide that the funding for this air extraction system is $350,000 from local funds rather than the Strategic Investment and Improvements Fund.” Chairman Wozniak seconded the motion. The committee then took a roll-call vote on the amendment; senators recorded on the roll call voted in the affirmative and the amendment carried. The committee then voted on a motion to give the amended bill a due-pass recommendation; that motion also passed on roll call.
Vote record (as recorded in the transcript)
Amendment to change funding source ($350,000): - Senator Wannsick — Yes - Senator Burkhart — Yes - Senator Dwyer — Yes - Senator Erboli — Yes - Senator Sickler — Aye Outcome: amendment adopted (voice and roll-call sequence recorded in committee).
Due-pass vote on SB2020 as amended: - Recorded roll call returned the same affirmative responses from the members listed above; the committee reported the bill out with a due-pass recommendation as amended.
Details and context
Committee staff (Brady) and members noted the change simply moves the funding source from the SIF to local funds and that no additional appropriation would be required beyond the reclassification of funding authority. Brady told the committee that the drafting change would be quick and ready for the full committee the next morning. The item relates to a pilot-scale mill and air-classification system to be used at the Northern Crops Institute; the transcript referred to the item as a "pilot scale mill and air classification system."
Quotes
"The motion will be to move to further amend the amendments to provide that the funding for this air extraction system is $350,000 from local funds rather than the strategic investment and improvements fund," Brady (staff) said when offering the amendment.
"That should be a fairly quick change. So we'll have it ready for tomorrow morning," Brady said after the amendment passed.
Ending
Committee staff agreed to prepare the amended language for the full committee; the Appropriations committee reconvened the next morning for full committee consideration.
