1E Relating to state government

ARTICLE 1 - AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the department of agriculture for protection services, agricultural marketing and development, bioenergy and value-added agriculture, administration and financial assistance; appropriating money to the board of animal health and the agricultural utilization research
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ARTICLE 2 - AGRICULTURE STATUTORY CHANGES

Establishing pilot urban agriculture development grants; modifying pest control license provisions, commercial applicator license provisions, certain specialty fertilizer, soil amendment and plant amendment application and inspection fees, certain provisions relating to plant protection and export certification provisions; "Industrial Hemp Development Act"; providing for the development and regulation of an industrial hemp industry; defining certain terms; authorizing industrial hemp research, specifying authorized activities and site registration requirements; providing for industrial hemp as an agricultural product; requiring licensing; specifying production and notification requirements; requiring rulemaking by the commissioner of commerce; providing for fees; providing an affirmative defense for possession of marijuana; modifying the definitions of marijuana and wild hemp; making conforming changes; modifying Minnesota seed law provisions; providing a food handler licensing requirement exemption for certain cottage foods; allowing direct sales to consumers, specifying a sales limit, requiring annual registration and food handling training; establishing a cottage foods account; repealing exclusions for community events or farmers' market and
certain home-processed and home-canned foods; establishing production based bioenergy grant programs administered by the department of agriculture; creating the advanced biofuel production incentive program, a renewable chemical production incentive program and a biomass production incentive program, requiring a report; establishing the agriculture research, education, extension, and technology transfer grant program to provide investments that will most efficiently achieve long-term agricultural productivity increases through improved infrastructure, vision, and accountability; modifying certain provisions relating to the rural finance authority; establishing the farm opportunity loan program; modifying the definitions of wild hemp; establishing the correctional facility butcher training pilot program; providing for the transfer of certain balances; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to identify causes and submit a report of the relative growth or decline of poultry and livestock production in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Nebraska of a
certain time period; repealing the shared savings loan program, certain license fees and penalties, and the sunset for the agriculture growth, research and innovation program

ARTICLE 3 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the pollution control agency (PCA) for clean water and air, land cleanup and for environmental assistance and cross-media; appropriating money to the department of natural resources for land and mineral resources management, ecological and water resources, forest management, parks and trails management, fish and wildlife management, certain enforcement provisions and operations support; appropriating money to the board of water and soil resources (BWSR) for natural resource block grant to local government, soil and water general purposes, certain cost-share programs, enforcement and oversight of the wetland conservation act, local drainage, floodplain, and water management purposes; appropriating money to the metropolitan council for regional parks and trails operation and maintenance purposes; appropriating money to Conservation Corps Minnesota, the zoological board, and the science museum

ARTICLE 4 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES STATUTORY CHANGES

Modifying certain environmental protection data relating to the pollution control agency (PCA); creating a fee exemption for certain utility licenses crossing public lands and waters; establishing natural resources conservation easement stewardship accounts for the department of natural resources (DNR); modifying certain provisions relating to snowmobile and all-terrain vehicle registration; establishing aquatic invasive species affirmation requirements; establishing the Mississippi Blufflands trail in Goodhue and Wabasha counties; modifying certain state park permit fees; designating Shell Rock River as a state water trail; adding skeet and archery to shooting sports facilities grants authorization; modifying certain forest bough buyer account provisions; increasing the threshold for bid increases for which a bid guarantee payment to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) is required; modifying interest rates applicable to timber permit extensions; extinguishing the school trust interest in school trust lands where long-term economic return is prohibited by designation or policy while producing economic benefits for Minnesota public schools; modifying proceeds from certain minerals and the sale of state lands; extending the expiration date on certain natural resources oversight committees; establishing wetland stakeholder coordination; establishing natural resources conservation easement stewardship accounts for the board of water and soil
resources (BWSR); modifying certain wetland functions for determining public values; establishing an in-lieu fee program for wetland replacement; establishing the working lands watershed restoration program; modifying certain wetland replacement siting provisions, wetland rules, evaluation procedures and wetland replacement completion provisions; modifying certain fees and state conservation easements; modifying certain fees paid to the board of water and soil resources; expanding uses of state grants to counties for solid waste reduction and recycling purposes; modifying certain provisions relating to the duties of the pollution control agency (PCA); defining certain terms and modifying certain definitions relating to the pollution control agency (PCA); modifying provisions relating to the identification and applicability of certain chemicals; establishing reporting requirement on certain chemicals in children's products; establishing certain chemical reporting fees, enforcement and implementation provisions; providing for certain transfers; requiring the board of water and soil resources in cooperation with the department of natural resources (DNR) to produce a wetland conservation act report; authorizing the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to issue refunds for certain youth bear licenses; prohibiting application of wild rice water quality standards until certain conditions are met; establishing a working lands watershed restoration implementation plan under reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) resources law; requiring an independent peer review of water quality standards; requiring minimum water quality standards for the Red River of the North; appropriating money for a request for proposal for a cost analysis of of water quality standards; authorizing certain state lands sales; providing for revisor instruction; repealing the forests for the future conservation easement account, certain decal provisions relating to the aquatic invasive species prevention program and certain pollution control agency (PCA) transfers
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