As is often the case with omnibus funding bills, the 2015 MN House Ag Finance Omnibus Bill Draft has been released by the committee chair as a "deleted all" amendment; in this case it's for HF1437.
It's accessible via a link the Minnesota House Finance Committee's website, but we've embedded the draft later in this post. If you scroll on the embedded document, you can read the text without downloading the pdf.
The bill pulls together the ideas and funding that the chair, Rep. Rod Hamilton (R-Mountain Lake) and committee for the next biennium, or so the theory goes. Many Minnesotans are beginning to question how heavy a hand special interest lobbyists have in crafting bills and final drafts such as this. Consider, as we did earlier in the week, the draft of the Minnesota House Energy Omnibus Bill.
To read the bill correctly, you'll need to understand a couple of conventions. Any language that's underlined is new. If text is crossed out, that's an existing part of law that's being cut. If the language is in plain/bold/italic text that's neither underlined nor struck out, that's the existing law.
We'll post our thoughts and those that we see by others after we get a chance to read the draft of the "delete all" amendment.
The bill will be heard on Friday, April 10, 2015, 2:45 p.m. in Room 5, State Office Building in the Capitol Complex in St. Paul. According to the committee's website:
Opportunity for public testimony on the author's delete-all amendment to HF1437 will be provided at this meeting. The committee will consider adoption of the delete-all amendment, but no other action on the bill will be taken.
2015 MN House Ag Finance Omnibus Bill Draft
Photo: Ag Finance Chair Rep. Rod Hamilton (R-Mountain Lake), via Forum Communications, back before he wanted it all.
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