To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Department of Agriculture and Rural Development budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-3) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To increase spending and staffing in a number of department programs. Among other things the amendment would increase proposed spending on administration and information technology, which most House departmental budgets would cut by 3 percent and 15 percent, respectively.

The House version of the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Department of Agriculture and Rural Development budget. This would appropriate $109.2 million in gross spending. Of this, $11.8 million is federal money, and the rest is from state and local taxes and fees.

To "zero-out" all of the appropriations in the House-passed version of this budget, leaving it as just a "shell" or "placeholder." This is a procedural device used for launching negotiations over the differences between the House and Senate budgets, and eventually for negotiating a final budget between a Republican-controlled legislature and a Democratic governor.

To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill.

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Department of Agriculture and Rural Development budget. This would appropriate $2.019 billion in gross spending, of which $12.6 million is federal money, compared to $107.9 million enrolled the previous year.

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Department of Agriculture and Rural Development budget. This would appropriate $ 107.9 million in gross spending, of which $12.6 million is federal money, compared to $107.9 million enrolled the previous year.