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Committee pauses plan to expand business infrastructure fund to plant-based processing amid cannabis and timing concerns

3307947 · May 13, 2025
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A conference committee paused a planned expansion of the Greater Minnesota Business Development Public Infrastructure program to include plant-based processing and a proposed delayed effective date.

A conference committee paused a planned expansion of the Greater Minnesota Business Development Public Infrastructure program to explicitly include plant-based processing — a change that lawmakers said could take effect after a delayed effective date.

Senator Drayheim, who offered an amendment to delay the expansion, told the committee the change would “just delay it a year and, give the cities time to to review it and and look at it with the budget constraints of of this fiscal budget.” The…

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