HF 769

1st Committee Engrossment - 85th Legislature (2007 - 2008)

Posted on 12/22/2009 12:37 p.m.

1.1A bill for an act 1.2relating to agriculture; appropriating money for agronomic research on native 1.3plants; providing for a technical advisory committee. 1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 1.5    Section 1. new text begin APPROPRIATION; NATIVE PLANT RESEARCH. new text end 1.6     new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end new text begin Appropriation. new text end new text begin $1,000,000 is appropriated in fiscal year 2008 from new text end 1.7 new text begin the general fund to the regents of the University of Minnesota to fund a program of basic new text end 1.8 new text begin agronomic research on native plants, including plant-breeding, nutrient management, pest new text end 1.9 new text begin management, yield, viability, and distiller grains and other biofuel production co-products. new text end 1.10     new text begin Subd. 2. new text end new text begin Technical advisory committee. new text end new text begin To ensure that public benefits are new text end 1.11 new text begin secured from the research funded in subdivision 1, the University of Minnesota shall new text end 1.12 new text begin establish a technical advisory committee consisting of representatives of the Department new text end 1.13 new text begin of Agriculture and other appropriate public and private stakeholders to develop research new text end 1.14 new text begin guidelines. new text end