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Committee advances bill to create competitive AGRI grant process; adopts A1 adding monitoring and testing provisions
Summary
House File 2,579 was laid over after the committee voted to adopt an A1 amendment that added proposed spending for retail milk testing, voluntary worker biomonitoring, and wastewater surveillance related to avian influenza; the underlying bill would direct many small appropriations into competitive grants administered by the Department of Ag.
The House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee laid over House File 2,579 after members debated a bill to shift many small agricultural appropriations into a competitive grant process administered by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and after adopting an A1 amendment that added three proposed monitoring initiatives related to avian influenza.
Representative Hansen moved the bill to create two grant tracks administered through the AGRI program—one for smaller "mini grants" (Agri Support) and one for larger competitive awards (AgriWorks)—with the effect of directing appropriations into a department-run competitive…
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