AGRICULTURE-Week of Feb. 27
SF 2172 – Swine confinement feeding management HF 589 – Agricultural trespassing and production fraud FLOOR ACTION: SF 2172 changes how animal units are calculated to determine if a confinement feeding...
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SF 2269 – Wastewater disposal SF 2303 – Veterinarian assistants’ guidelines SF 2311 – IDALS Department bill FLOOR ACTION: SF 2269 amends SF 321 from the 2011 legislative session. The bill authorized...
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HF 2092 – Farmers markets annual vendor permits HF 2292 – Fish farms FLOOR ACTION & COMMITTEE ACTION: HF 2092 allows vendor annual permits for year around farmers markets. [3/21:50-0] [3/15: short...
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HF 2292 – Fish farms FLOOR ACTION: HF 2292 provides that fish farms can be regulated under federal Pollutant Discharge Elimination System rules until the Iowa Department of Natural Resources creates...
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SF 2311 – IDALS departmental bill HF 2292 – Fish farms FLOOR ACTION: HF 2292 provides that fish farms can be regulated under federal Pollutant Discharge Elimination System rules until the Iowa...
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SF 2172 – Swine confinement feeding management SF 2269 – Wastewater disposal SF 2311 – IDALS Dept. bill HF 589 – Offenses to animal operations and livestock HF 2092 – Year around farmers market and...
View ArticleAGRICULTURE – Week of Feb. 18, 2013
SSB 1115 – Hybrid Bengal cats SSB 1143 – IDALS departmental bill COMMITTEE ACTION: SSB 1115 exempts the F-4 hybrid Bengal from the dangerous wild animal list in Iowa. An amendment was adopted in...
View ArticleAGRICULTURE – Week of March 4, 2013
SF 316 – Farm tenancy under 40 acres SF 310 – Corn Promotion Board check-off SF 235 – ADA motor fuel pumps SSB 1180 – CAFOs SSB 1208 – Soil and Water Appropriation SSB 1234 – Feed in tariffs...
View ArticleAGRICULTURE – Week of March 11, 2013
SF 316 – Farm tenancy under 40 acres HF 458 – IDALS Departmental bill FLOOR ACTION: SF 316 would eliminate the exemption to the September 1 written notice to be given to a person that leases farmland...
View ArticleAGRICULTURE – Week of March 18, 2013
SF 247 – Hybrid Bengal cats COMMITTEE ACTION: SF 247 exempts the F-4 hybrid Bengal and Savannah cats from the dangerous wild animal list in Iowa. [3/18: 46-2 (Bowman, Petersen “no”; Chelgren,...
View ArticleAGRICULTURE – Week of March 25, 2013
SF 310 – Corn Promotion Board check-off FLOOR ACTION: SF 310 makes changes to Iowa Corn Promotion Board in three ways: (1) Reduces size of the Iowa Corn Promotion Board to consist of one director...
View ArticleAGRICULTURE – Week of April 8, 2013
HF 152 – Drainage districts HF 312 — Manure application certification program electronic option HF 457 – DNR Ag land leases for beginning farmer preference HF 599 – Beginning Farmer Tax Credits HF 607...
View ArticleAGRICULTURE – Week of April 22, 2013
HF 152 – Drainage districts HF 607 – Agricultural Development Authority to Iowa Finance Authority FLOOR ACTION: HF 152 allows changes to the management of drainage districts. In current law, drainage...
View ArticleAGRICULTURE – Week of April 29, 2013
HF 512 – Confinement Feeding Operations FLOOR ACTION: HF 512 would allow a producer that wants to continue using a building that has been approved for a higher animal capacity to take a “time-out”...
View ArticleAGRICULTURE: All-bill Summary 2013
All bills passed by Legislature & sent to Governor – 2013 SF 247 – Bengal and Savannah cats SF 316 – Farm tenancy under 40 acres HF 152 – Drainage districts HF 312 – Electronic Manure Applicator...
View ArticleAGRICULTURE – week of Feb. 10, 2014
SF 2055 – Drainage districts financing FLOOR ACTION: SF 2055 increases the amount to be paid in a single warrant from $1,000 to $5,000 for drainage district projects. Each month, estimates of work...
View ArticleAGRICULTURE – week of Feb. 17, 2014
SSB 3127 – Expansion of Definition of Trustee Eligibility SF 401 – ADA Fuel Pumps COMMITTEE ACTION: SSB 3127 expands the definition of trustee eligibility. In some rural drainage districts that...
View ArticleAgriculture – week of Feb. 24, 2014
SF 2055 – Drainage districts financing FLOOR ACTION: SF 2191 increases the amount to be paid in a single warrant from $1,000 to $5,000 for drainage district projects. Each month, estimates of work...
View ArticleAgriculture – week of March 3, 2014
SF 2273 – Expansion of Definition of Trustee Eligibility FLOOR ACTION: SF 2273 expands the definition of trustee eligibility. In some rural drainage districts that still elect trustees, the Code...
View ArticleAgriculture – week of March 10, 2014
SF 2284 – ADA Fuel Pumps FLOOR ACTION: SF 2284 requires new construction of retail motor fuel sites to post required signage, install a large call button near a fuel dispenser reachable from inside...
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