Governor Dayton announces stipulations for possible special session
Governor Dayton announces stipulations for possible special session
This afternoon, at a press conference, Governor Dayton presented a letter addressed to legislative leadership. The letter contains a list of requirements that the legislature must agree to in order for him to call a special session. The list includes $66.7 million in bonding for the University of Minnesota's requested Health Sciences Education Facility, as well as $10.5 million in FY17 and $21 million in FY18-19 in supplemental budget funding for the University's Health Training Restoration initiative.
As you may recall, the legislature did not pass a bonding bill this year, and a special session is required to fund any bonding projects.
Governor Dayton signs supplemental budget bill
Also today, Governor Dayton signed the supplemental budget bill, which includes $2.6 million for the University's Mining Innovation Minnesota initiative and $800,000 ongoing for the Health Training Restoration initiative.
The bill also contains policy and funding for the following University programs:
- Rochester campus collegiate recovery program - $100,000
- Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory equipment - $283,000
- Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory software tool - $600,000 in FY17; $1.2 million in FY18-19
- Forever Green Agriculture Initiative - $1 million
- Cultivated wild rice research - $450,000 ongoing
- Potato breeding research - $350,000 ongoing
- State ombudsman monitoring of Department of Psychiatry clinical drug trials
- Extension of the Farmer Lender Mediation program
View a final comparison of the 2016 regular legislative session supplemental budget proposals.
Mining Innovation Minnesota funding in LCCMR bill line-item vetoed
On Tuesday, May 31, Governor Dayton line-item vetoed seven projects in the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) bill, including $1.1 million for the University's Mining Innovation Minnesota initiative. In his letter to the legislature, the governor stated he did not oppose these seven projects, but that he vetoed them because they did not go through the LCCMR annual approval process.