Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF3633

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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