Senate Amendment 5152 PAG LIN 1 1 Amend Senate Joint Resolution 2002 as follows: 1 2 #1. Page 1, line 10, by inserting after the word 1 3 <State.> the following: <If moneys are used to 1 4 acquire an acre of agricultural land, there is 1 5 appropriated from the fund to the county where the 1 6 agricultural land is located an annual payment amount 1 7 based upon the suitability of the acquired acre's soil 1 8 for potential row crop productivity. The amount of 1 9 the annual payment to a county shall equal fifty 1 10 dollars for each acre of agricultural land that is 1 11 rated fifty or higher plus one dollar for each whole 1 12 rating unit in excess of fifty, according to an index 1 13 as shall be established by the general assembly that 1 14 measures the productivity for all agricultural land in 1 15 this State and which includes a whole unit rating 1 16 system ranging from zero for soils that are 1 17 unproductive to one hundred for soils that are the 1 18 most productive.> 1 19 1 20 1 21 1 22 MARK ZIEMAN 1 23 JAMES A. SEYMOUR 1 24 NANCY J. BOETTGER 1 25 JAMES F. HAHN 1 26 HUBERT HOUSER 1 27 STEVE KETTERING 1 28 DAVID L. HARTSUCH 1 29 PAUL McKINLEY 1 30 E. THURMAN GASKILL 1 31 JOHN PUTNEY 1 32 JERRY BEHN 1 33 RON WIECK 1 34 SJR 2002.303 82 1 35 da/rj/20763 1 36 1 37 1 38 1 39 1 40 1 41 1 42 1 43 1 44 1 45 1 46 1 47 1 48 1 49 1 50 -1-