File Code: Agriculture
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 752  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Stup, Nathan-Pulliam, Elliott, Stull, Brinkley, Snodgrass,
Hecht, McKee, Edwards, Harkins, D. Hughes, Donoghue, Poole, Workman,
Watson, O'Donnell, Hubbard, Kirk, C. Davis, Boston, C. Mitchell, Love,
Harrison, Fulton, Fry, Willis, Hutchins, Klausmeier, Stocksdale, Frush,
 Getty, Montague, and Arnick
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Fairness in Milk Marketing Act of 1997
 
Implementing recommendations of the Task Force on Maryland's Dairy
Industry; establishing an Advisory Committee on Milk Pricing and a
Maryland Milk Fund; authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to
establish fluid milk marketing areas, presumed costs to distributors,
and producer prices; requiring distributors of fluid milk to be
licensed by the Secretary; prohibiting the buying or selling of milk
below presumed costs except under specified circumstances; requiring a
specified report; etc.
House Action
- 1/27
 - First Reading Environmental Matters
 - 1/28
 - Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 1/29
 - Hearing cancelled
 - 1/30
 - Hearing 2/6 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/13
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
 - 3/14
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Crumlin)
 -      Special Order 3/18 (Delegate Guns) Adopted
 - 3/18
 - Floor Amendment (Delegate Crumlin) Adopted
 -      Special Order after Special Order calendar (Delegate M. Burns) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate M. Burns) Rejected
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/20
 - Motion vote previous question (Delegate C. Davis) Adopted
 -      Third Reading Failed (54-76)
 
Senate Action
- No Action
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Delegate J. Anita Stup, District 3
 - Delegate John S. Arnick, District 7
 - Delegate Frank D. Boston, Jr., District 41
 - Delegate David R. Brinkley, District 4A
 - Delegate Clarence Davis, District 45
 - Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
 - Delegate George C. Edwards, District 1A
 - Delegate Donald B. Elliott, District 4B
 - Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
 - Delegate Donald C. Fry, District 35A
 - Delegate Tony Edward Fulton, District 40
 - Delegate Joseph M. Getty, District 5
 - Delegate James M. Harkins, District 35A
 - Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
 - Delegate Sue C. Hecht, District 3
 - Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
 - Delegate Don B. Hughes, District 37A
 - Delegate Thomas E. Hutchins, District 28
 - Delegate Ruth M. Kirk, District 44
 - Delegate Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
 - Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
 - Delegate Robert A. McKee, District 2A
 - Delegate Clarence M. Mitchell, IV, District 44
 - Delegate Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., District 43
 - Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
 - Delegate Anthony J. O'Donnell, District 29C
 - Delegate D. Bruce Poole, District 2B
 - Delegate Louise V. Snodgrass, District 3
 - Delegate Nancy Reter Stocksdale, District 5
 - Delegate Paul S. Stull, District 4A
 - Delegate Carmena F. Watson, District 44
 - Delegate Ellen L. Willis, District 5
 - Delegate Betty Workman, District 1B
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF
 - AUDITORS AND AUDITS
 - COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
 - HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
 - HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
 - INTERSTATE AFFAIRS
 - JUDICIAL REVIEW
 - LICENSES -see also- ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES LICENSES
 - MILK PRODUCTS
 - PENALTIES
 - PRICES
 - RECORDS -see also- RCDNGS; LAND RCDS; VITAL RCDS; CRIM BKGD.
 - REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
 - RULES AND REGULATIONS
 - SUNSET
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Agriculture
 - (
 2-801 ,
 2-802 ,
 2-803 ,
 2-804 ,
 2-805 ,
 2-806 ,
 2-807 ,
 2-808 ,
 2-809 ,
 2-810 ,
 2-811 
)
 -   Health - General
 - (
 21-415 ,
 21-418 
)
 -   State Government
 - (
 8-403 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- House 
 - Number: 162791/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 18, 1997     at: 11:07
 Status: Adopted         
 - Number: 549778/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 14, 1997     at: 11:32
 Status: Adopted         
 - Number: 782897/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 18, 1997     at: 11:23
 Status: Rejected