AR SB3

Reappropriates remaining balances from capital improvement appropriations to the Arkansas Agriculture Department effective July 1, 2012, from the General Improvement Fund.

Allocates $45,000 for annual festival grants; $100,000 for Camp Couchdale facility improvements; $100,000 for Arkansas 4-H Foundation debt service and renovations; $847,200 for county and district fair construction.

Appropriates $1,000,000 for Arkansas Forestry Commission maintenance and facility improvements; $10,000,000 for Alternative Fuels Development Grants; $13,800,000 for State Plant Board boll weevil suppression debt payments.

Provides $116,106 for Dairy Stabilization Program payments; $260,573 for Forestry Commission air tanker services; $69,563 for Livestock and Poultry Diagnostic Lab necropsy room improvements; and $356,134 for Poison Springs State Forest land acquisition and preservation.

Requires strict compliance with state purchasing and accounting laws; funds must supplement rather than replace existing maintenance and operations budgets; act takes effect July 1, 2012 under emergency clause.