Relating to state government finance

ARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONS

Reducing funding for department of agriculture administrative services; appropriating money to the board of animal health for United States department of agriculture (USDA) cattle, bison and farmed cervidae modified accredited status compliance, to the department of veterans affairs for soldiers assistance, the LinkVet linkage line, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) outreach and education, additional state veterans case workers for comprehensive individual assistance, a northern Minnesota veterans cemetery, the Minnesota assistance council for homelessness assistance, state navigator positions, the veterans claims office for outreach and training and for a female veterans service officer/coordinator position, for county veterans services offices, a county veterans services office training coordinator, for the higher education veterans assistance program for campus representatives, for veterans affairs marketing and for a veterans homes strategic planning study, to the department of military affairs for the guard and reserve program employer support state enhancement (ESGR), recertifying national guard medics biannual bonus payments, state navigator positions and for the tuition and textbook reimbursement program

ARTICLE 2 - RELATED PROVISIONS

Authorizing the board of animal health to control bovine tuberculosis and cattle, bison and farmed cervidae movement within and between tuberculosis zones, allowing zones certain accreditations as defined in code of federal regulations, specifying board authority control within a modified accredited zone; authorizing the commissioner of public safety to issue special veteran single motorcycle plates to registered motorcycle owners, regulating plate size and permitting plate transfer; appropriating money in the world war II memorial donation match account after state construction costs payment to the commissioner of veterans affairs for veterans and families services and programs; appropriating money in the support our troops account equally to the departments of military affairs and veterans affairs, permitting department of military affairs expenditures on grants to family readiness groups and permitting department of veterans affairs expenditures on grants to veterans service organizations and outreach to underserved veterans; authorizing the adjutant general to sell timber on the camp Ripley military field training center land, requiring deposit of proceeds and appropriation for camp Ripley timber resources management; authorizing the adjutant general to establish and administer a state enhancement to the federal employer support of guard and reserve (ESGR) program, requiring policy and guidelines development, authorizing the adjutant general to establish a program to provide a recertification bonus to recertifying emergency medical technicians (EMT) national guard members, specifying eligibility; extending the tuition and textbook reimbursement grant program to spouses of veterans, specifying a limit; eliminating s sunset on the higher education veterans assistance program; adjusting a current appropriation to the department of veterans affairs for soldiers assistance
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