House Journal: Page 1258: Tuesday, April 9, 2002
3 a. General university
4 For salaries, support, maintenance, equipment,
5 miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the
6 following full-time equivalent positions:
7 $190,866,120
8 FTEs 3,647.42
9 The university may continue progress on the center
10 for excellence in fundamental plant sciences. From
11 the funds appropriated in this lettered paragraph, the
12 university may use up to $4,760,000 for the center for
13 excellence in fundamental plant sciences.
14 It is possible that a few large companies may be
15 able to control all levels of the food chain,
16 including production, because these companies own the
17 genetics needed to participate in the food system of
18 the future, and this possibility may be a major threat
19 to the independence and profitability of Iowa's
20 agricultural producers. To ensure public ownership of
21 plant genetic material, all rights to the research
22 products developed by the Iowa state university of
23 science and technology's botany institute using state-
24 appropriated funds will be made available to the
25 extent practicable for commercialization, for the
26 benefit of all Iowans, including Iowa's agricultural
27 producers, through a public process which normally
28 involves nonexclusive licensing of genes and
29 germplasm.
30 Funds appropriated in this lettered paragraph shall
31 not be available for expenditure for medically induced
32 termination of a pregnancy, including but not limited
33 to usage of mifepristone or RU-486, offered or
34 administered by the student health center.
35 b. Agricultural experiment station
36 For salaries, support, maintenance, miscellaneous
37 purposes, and for not more than the following full-
38 time equivalent positions:
39 $ 34,601,714
40 FTEs 546.98
41 c. Cooperative extension service in agriculture
42 and home economics
43 For salaries, support, maintenance, miscellaneous
44 purposes, and for not more than the following full-
45 time equivalent positions:
46 $ 21,866,928
47 FTEs 431.20
48 d. Leopold center
49 For agricultural research grants at Iowa state
50 university under section 266.39B, and for not more
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