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Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - Author added Magnus Bill Text Bovine tuberculosis control provided.
Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Finance Bill Text Waste pesticide collection program modified.
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - Division action, to pass as amended and return to Finance Bill Text Veterans affairs, military affairs, and the Board of Animal Health funding provided, agriculture appropriations reduced, veteran contribution plate authorized for motorcycles, grant limit and sunset date removed, and money appropriated.
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Transportation Finance Division Bill Text Anhydrous ammonia driver hours of service provision modified.
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Bills not identical, R/S, SF substituted on General Register Bill TextHF 3902 THIRD ENGROSSMENT Agriculture, fuel, and veterans policy provisions changed; programs, requirements, and procedures established and changed, activities regulated, and planning and working groups established. ARTICLE 1 -- AGRICULTURE POLICY Section 1: Livestock investment grant program language provided. Subdivision 1. Establishment. Subdivision 2. Definitions. Subdivision 3. Eligibility. Subdivision 4. Process. Subdivision 5. Livestock investment grant account. Section 2: Collection and disposal language modified. Section 3: Implementation language modified. Section 4: Disposal site requirement language modified. Section 5: Cooperative agreements language modified. Section 6: Prohibited pesticide use language modified. Section 7: Application fee language modified. Section 8: Revocation and suspension [...] show full description
Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Author stricken Shimanski Bill Text HF 3584 FIRST ENGROSSMENT Animal chiropractic care requirements established. Section 1: Definitions language added. Section 2: Animal chiropractic practice language provided. Section 3: Scope of practice; animal chiropractic language provided. Section 4: Titles language provided. Section 5: Provisional interim statute language provided. Section 6: Educational criteria for licensure in animal chiropractic diagnosis and treatment; records; treatment notes language provided. Section 7: Animal chiropractic continuing education hours language provided. JAJ 3/13/08
Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Committee report, to pass and re-refer to Finance Bill Text NextGen Energy Board member added, sunset date removed, and appropriation modified.
Latest Action: 03/25/2008 - Division action, to pass and return to Finance Bill TextHF 3550 FIRST ENGROSSMENT Viral hemorrhagic septicemia control provided. Section 1: Bill of lading language is modified. Section 2: Exemptions for transportation permits and bills of lading language is modified. Section 3: Permit application language is modified. Section 4: Importation and stocking restrictions language is modified. Section 5: Licensed facilities language is modified. Section 6: Disease-free history language is modified. Section 7: Stocking private aquatic life language is modified. Section 8: Restriction on the sale of fish language is modified. Section 9: Minnows language is modified. Subdivision 1. Taking from public waters. Subdivision 2. Importation of live minnows. Section 10: Commercial fishing and turtle, frog, and crayfish harvesting restrictions in infested and noninfested waters language [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - Committee report, to pass and re-refer to Finance Bill Text HF 3507 FIRST ENGROSSMENT Disaster area waiver of fees and expedited food handler plan review authorized, embargo and condemnation provisions changed, food sanitary and fee provisions changed, terms defined, and egg sales and handling regulated. Section 1: Vending machine language provided. Section 2: License fees; penalties language modified. Section 3: Disaster areas language provided. Section 4: Annual fee; exceptions language modified. Section 5: Grading language required. Section 6: Embargoes and condemnations language modified. Section 7: Employment of diseased person language modified. Section 8: Water, plumbing, and sewage language modified. Section 9: Somatic cell county, goat milk language provided. JAJ 3/12/08
Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Committee report, to pass and re-refer to Finance Bill Text Pesticide and fertilizer regulating administrative actions authorized.
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Latest Action: 05/18/2008 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Taxes Bill Text Agricultural product definition expanded for purposes of property taxation.
Latest Action: 05/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Agriculture, Rural Economies and Veterans Affairs Bill Text Dog food incidence fee changed.
Latest Action: 02/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for a grant to the Worthington regional economic development corporation for an agricultural based bioscience training and testing center (me)
Latest Action: 02/07/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Authorizing the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) in consultation with the commissioner of revenue to designate family agricultural revitalization zones (FARMZ) for on farm agricultural processing facility projects under the job opportunity building zones (JOBZ) program, requiring the commissioner to consider tax incentives, limiting qualifying projects to agricultural processing facilities; providing for application of JOBZ rules (rt)
Latest Action: 02/19/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Modifying the minimum acreage requirement for property to qualify as an agricultural homestead (me)
Latest Action: 02/21/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring the commissioner of public safety to upon sending renewal registration notification to include a list of service stations providing E85 within the zip code area of E85 owners addresses (me)
Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the commissioner of agriculture for research on the impact of invasive aquatic species in Lake Superior on agricultural trade (je)
Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the board of animal health for bovine spongiform encephalopathy mitigation and outreach efforts (je)
Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota to study the economic implications of converting farmland from row crops to native perennial grasses harvested for bioenergy development (je)
Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text1E Relating to motor fuels; modifying the definition of biodiesel fuel and increasing the minimum content of biodiesel fuel in diesel fuel, specifying biodiesel content goals; establishing a panel composed of the commissioners of agriculture, commerce and pollution control agency (PCA) and specifying duties, clarifying minimum content exceptions; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to issue a report annually by a certain date to the legislature regarding the implementation of biodiesel minimum content requirements; requiring the commissioners of finance, commerce and the PCA to develop and submit to the legislature a proposal for eliminating redundant fuel inspections and dedicating petroleum inspection fee revenue to the weights and measures division of the department of commerce; requiring the commissioners of agriculture and commerce to consider and provide recommendations to maximize the performance of biodiesel show full description
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