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Committee adopts amendment to shift remaining ALS research appropriation for statewide collaboration
Summary
The Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee adopted an oral amendment to House File 2930 to reallocate the remaining balance of a 2022 ALS research appropriation to support a coordinated University of Minnesota–Mayo collaboration; the bill was laid over for further consideration.
Representative Zack Hill presented House File 2930 to shift the remaining balance of a 2022 appropriation for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research into a statewide collaborative effort led by Minnesota's major research centers.
The bill would not create new spending but would reallocate existing funds to “open up” the balance to a coordinated consortium, Representative Hill said. He told the committee the remaining balance in the fund is $15,262,263 and offered an oral amendment to change the billed amount from $15,000,000 to that precise figure.…
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