Legislative Session number- 88

Bill Name: SF1160

2E Relating to agriculture

ARTICLE 1 - POLICY AND TECHNICAL CHANGES

Making
policy, technical, conforming, and clarifying changes to provisions relating to
agricultural law; modifying certain provisions relating to pesticide control,
organic agriculture practices, agricultural resource loan and ethanol
development, the rural finance authority, agricultural utilization research
institute board of directors, grain buyers, grain storage and other
agriculture-related provisions; updating pesticide education and training
requirements and specifying new requirements; modifying the definition of E85
for petroleum product taxation purposes; modifying agricultural or
nonagricultural waste pesticide reporting requirements; requiring the
commissioner of agriculture to use existing pesticide account resources for the
new education and training requirements; specifying revisor of statutes
instructions; repealing provisions relating to use of public water for filling
pesticide equipment and certain rules

ARTICLE 2 - BIOFUELS

Providing a
sunset date for the cellulosic ethanol production goal; directing the NextGen
energy board to examine biobased chemical production from agricultural and
forestry feedstocks; defining biobased chemical; converting the ethanol minimum
content requirement to a biofuel requirement; defining biobutanol and specifying
qualifying criteria; repealing E20 mandate language

ARTICLE 3 - MINNESOTA
NOXIOUS WEED LAW

Modifying certain noxious weed law provisions; providing
noxious weed categories; establishing the noxious weed eradicate list and the
noxious weed control list; authorizing rulemaking; repealing certain duties of
the noxious weed advisory committee and the committee expiration date
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