Idaho H 731: APPROPRIATIONS – DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE – Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Agriculture for fiscal year 2025.

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LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO
Sixty-seventh Legislature Second Regular Session - 2024
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE BILL NO. 731
BY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE
AN ACT1
RELATING TO THE APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; APPROPRI-2
ATING ADDITIONAL MONEYS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR FISCAL3
YEAR 2025; APPROPRIATING AND TRANSFERRING MONEYS FROM THE GENERAL FUND4
TO THE DEPREDATION OF LIVESTOCK AND PREVENTION FUND; AND DECLARING AN5
EMERGENCY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.6
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:7
SECTION 1. In addition to any other appropriation provided by law,8
there is hereby appropriated to the Department of Agriculture the following9
amounts to the Animal Industries Program to be expended according to the10
listed expense classes from the Depredation of Livestock and Prevention Fund11
for the period July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025:12
FOR:13
Operating Expenditures14 $75,000
Trustee and Benefit Payments15 150,000
TOTAL16 $225,000
SECTION 2. CASH TRANSFER. There is hereby appropriated to the Depart-17
ment of Agriculture and the Office of the State Controller shall transfer18
$225,000 from the General Fund to the Depredation of Livestock and Preven-19
tion Fund on July 1, 2024, or as soon thereafter as practicable for the pe-20
riod July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025, to provide for the compensation for21
depredation of livestock by grizzly bear and wolves.22
SECTION 3. An emergency existing therefor, which emergency is hereby23
declared to exist, this act shall be in full force and effect on and after24
July 1, 2024.25