1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to agriculture; appropriating money for avian influenza payments.
1.3 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.4 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; AVIAN INFLUENZA PAYMENTS.
 1.5 	$2,000,000 in fiscal year 2015 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
1.6 	commissioner of agriculture for grants to the primary owner of each commercial poultry 
1.7 	production premises where birds were depopulated after the United States Department 
1.8 	of Agriculture confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza. The 
1.9 	commissioner shall award grants at a rate of $7,000 per premises for each full month that 
1.10 	elapsed from the date of positive confirmation until the date of initial flock repopulation, 
1.11 	not to exceed four full months. This appropriation is available until June 30, 2016.

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