Idaho Bills
3 bills · 2024 Regular Session
Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Agriculture for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.
This appropriation to the Department of Agriculture provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that includes for funding for 6.00 additional FTP and funding for a veterinarian in eastern Idaho, dairy inspectors, seed lab personnel, to enhance the Idaho Preferred program, to build a storage facility, to provide international trade support with Japan, for the resilient food systems grant, to provide CEC for fruit and vegetable inspectors, for the Honey Commission, funding for quagga mussel, replacement items, and additional 2% CEC. This bill also transfers $5,000,000 from the General Fund to the Invasive Species Fund to be used for quagga mussels. This appropriation also includes a deficiency warrant that reimburses the Department of Agriculture for prior fiscal year costs to survey and control pests on state and private lands authorized under Chapters 19 and 20, Title 22, Idaho Code. This action provides for moneys from the General Fund to be transferred to the Pest Control Deficiency Warrant Fund in the amount of $627,900.
Van Burtenshaw · SD-031
53 – 16
Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Agriculture for fiscal year 2025.
This is a fiscal year 2025 trailer appropriation bill for the Department of Agriculture. It addresses the fiscal impact of H592, which amended existing law to authorize the director of the Department of Agriculture to provide compensation to livestock owners and producers that have experienced livestock losses.
22 – 10
Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Agriculture for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.
This is a FY 2025 appropriation bill for the Department of Agriculture. It appropriates a total of $66,947,400 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 231.00. The bill funds ten FY 2025 enhancements, which provides 6.00 additional FTP and funding for a veterinarian in eastern Idaho, dairy inspectors, seed lab personnel, to enhance the Idaho Preferred program, to build a storage facility, to provide international trade support with Japan, for the resilient food systems grant, to provide CEC for fruit and vegetable inspectors, for the Honey Commission, and for quagga mussel. This bill also transfers $5,000,000 from the General Fund to the Invasive Species Fund to be used for quagga mussels. This legislation also includes a FY 2024 deficiency warrant to reimburse actual expenditures incurred in FY 2023 for monitoring and control of exotic species including Japanese beetles, Mormon crickets, and other exotic pests. Chapters 19 and 20, Title 22, Idaho Code, authorizes the use of deficiency warrants for the monitoring and mitigation of invasive species and pests.