| 1 | 1 | | 1.1 A bill for an act |
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| 2 | 2 | | 1.2 relating to agriculture; appropriating money for wolf and elk depredation payments. |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1.3BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: |
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| 4 | 4 | | 1.4 Section 1. DEPREDATION PAYMENTS; APPROPRIATION. |
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| 5 | 5 | | 1.5 (a) $....... in fiscal year 2026 and $....... in fiscal year 2027 are appropriated from the |
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| 6 | 6 | | 1.6general fund to the commissioner of agriculture for compensation payments under Minnesota |
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| 7 | 7 | | 1.7Statutes, section 3.737, for livestock destroyed or crippled by wolves. If the amount in the |
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| 8 | 8 | | 1.8first year is insufficient, the amount in the second year is available in the first year. The |
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| 9 | 9 | | 1.9commissioner may use up to $5,000 of this appropriation each year to reimburse expenses |
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| 10 | 10 | | 1.10incurred by university extension agents to provide fair market values of destroyed or crippled |
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| 11 | 11 | | 1.11livestock. |
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| 12 | 12 | | 1.12 (b) $....... in fiscal year 2026 and $....... in fiscal year 2027 are appropriated from the |
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| 13 | 13 | | 1.13general fund to the commissioner of agriculture for compensation payments under Minnesota |
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| 14 | 14 | | 1.14Statutes, section 3.7371, for crop or fence damage caused by elk. If the amount in the first |
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| 15 | 15 | | 1.15year is insufficient, the amount in the second year is available in the first year. |
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| 16 | 16 | | 1.16 (c) If the commissioner of agriculture determines that claims made under Minnesota |
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| 17 | 17 | | 1.17Statutes, section 3.737 or 3.7371, are unusually high, the commissioner may use money |
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| 18 | 18 | | 1.18appropriated for either program for the purposes under this section. |
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| 19 | 19 | | 1Section 1. |
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| 20 | 20 | | 25-01540 as introduced12/23/24 REVISOR BD/DG |
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| 21 | 21 | | SENATE |
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| 22 | 22 | | STATE OF MINNESOTA |
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| 23 | 23 | | S.F. No. 469NINETY-FOURTH SESSION |
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| 24 | 24 | | (SENATE AUTHORS: JOHNSON) |
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| 25 | 25 | | OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE |
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| 26 | 26 | | Introduction and first reading01/21/2025 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Referred to Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development |
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