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Committee advances bill to create agricultural grant revolving fund with appropriation language
Summary
The committee passed HB 2246 as a draft after DAB requested adding an appropriation clause to capture a portion of indirect costs from federal grants to sustain administration of a state agricultural grants program.
The House Committee on Agriculture and Food Systems passed a committee draft of HB 2246, which would create an agricultural grant program and a grant revolving fund to support grant application, execution, reporting and auditing administered by the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity.
DAB asked the committee to add explicit appropriation language to the bill so the revolving fund can receive state revenues derived from federal grant indirect costs. The department cited a recent federally funded award of $8,890,000 and a negotiated indirect cost rate (NICRA) of 12.5 percent, which DAB estimated would yield roughly $1,000,000 in indirect costs; the department proposed capturing a portion of those funds to support ongoing administrative activities.
The committee agreed to insert the appropriation clause language offered by DAB and passed a house draft 1 with technical edits and an amended annual report deadline. The chair and vice chair were recorded voting aye and several members were noted as excused. The committee deferred the exact appropriation amount to the committee report and set technical effective dates in the draft.
