1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to agriculture; directing the commissioner of
1.3 	agriculture to make lump sum payments for catch-up
1.4 	ethanol producer payments; providing for the timely
1.5 	appropriation of money.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; CATCH-UP ETHANOL PRODUCER
1.8 	PAYMENTS.
 1.9 	$39,953,000, or as much of that amount as is available from
1.10 	the deficiency in payments to ethanol producers specified in
1.11 	this section, is appropriated from the general fund to the
1.12 	commissioner of agriculture to make onetime payments on July 30,
1.13 	2008, to ethanol producers for any deficiency in payments during
1.14 	fiscal years 2004 through 2007 if the deficiency occurred
1.15 	because appropriated money was insufficient to make timely
1.16 	payments in the full amount provided in Minnesota Statutes 2004,
1.17 	section 41A.09.

1.18 	Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 1.19 	Section 1 is effective July 1, 2008.