Minnesota Senate Bill SF882 Latest Draft

                            1.1	A bill for an act​
1.2 relating to agriculture; appropriating money for the soil health financial assistance​
1.3 program.​
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:​
1.5 Section 1. APPROPRIATION; SOIL HEALTH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE​
1.6PROGRAM.​
1.7 $....... in fiscal year 2026 and $....... in fiscal year 2027 are appropriated from the general​
1.8fund to the commissioner of agriculture for the soil health financial assistance program​
1.9under Minnesota Statutes, section 17.134. The commissioner may award no more than​
1.10$50,000 of the appropriation each year to a single recipient. The commissioner may use up​
1.11to 6.5 percent of this appropriation for costs incurred to administer the program.​
1.12Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.28, any unencumbered balance at the end​
1.13of fiscal year 2026 does not cancel and is available in fiscal year 2027. Appropriations​
1.14encumbered under contract on or before June 30, 2027, for soil health financial assistance​
1.15grants are available until June 30, 2029.​
1​Section 1.​
25-01603 as introduced​12/20/24 REVISOR BD/DG​
SENATE​
STATE OF MINNESOTA​
S.F. No. 882​NINETY-FOURTH SESSION​
(SENATE AUTHORS: GUSTAFSON, Dornink, Kupec, Seeberger and Weber)​
OFFICIAL STATUS​D-PG​DATE​
Introduction and first reading​02/03/2025​
Referred to Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development​