1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to animal health; modifying a prior appropriation to allow certain 
1.3 	payments.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION MODIFICATION.
 1.6 	(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section  35.085, the Board of Animal Health 
1.7 	may make onetime grants to certain beef cattle producers participating in the bovine 
1.8 	tuberculosis herd buyout authorized in Minnesota Statutes, section 35.086, from the 
1.9 	$100,000 appropriation for reimbursements in Laws 2007, chapter 45, article 1, section 4. 
1.10 	(b) A buyout participant is eligible for payment under this section if the Board of 
1.11 	Animal Health quarantined the participant's herd and required the participant to sell young 
1.12 	cattle at slaughter rather than as feeder cattle.
1.13 	(c) For each head of cattle sold at slaughter under paragraph (b), the Board of 
1.14 	Animal Health must pay the difference between the fair market feeder cattle value at the 
1.15 	time of sale, as determined by the Board of Animal Health, and the documented slaughter 
1.16 	price received by the participant.

1.17 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.