CHAPTER NUMBER: 390 
File Code: Agriculture
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request -
Departmental - Agriculture)
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Secretary of Agriculture - Regulation of Poultry to Control Avian
Influenza
 
Requiring specified live poultry markets, poultry production
facilities, and poultry dealers to obtain an annual license; requiring
specified persons who keep poultry to register with the Secretary of
Agriculture; requiring the Secretary to maintain records in a
specified manner; authorizing the disclosure of identifying
information if the Secretary, after consulting with the Secretary of
Health and Mental Hygiene, determines that disclosure is necessary;
etc.
House Action
- 2/8
 - First Reading Environmental Matters
 -      Hearing 3/2 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/14
 
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
 - 3/15
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/17
 - Third Reading Passed (134-0)
 - 4/1
 - House Concur - Senate Amendments
 -      Third Reading Passed (136-0)
 -      Passed Enrolled
 
Senate Action
- 3/18
 - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 3/23
 - Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/31
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 -      Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 4/1
 - Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0)
 
Action after passage in House  and Senate
- 5/10
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 390
 
Sponsored by:
- Environmental Matters Comm., Chairman
 - Departmental
 - Agriculture, Department of
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF
 - AGRICULTURE -see also- FARMLAND
 - BIRDS
 - DEALERS -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS AND SALESMEN
 - DISCLOSURE
 - DISEASES -see also- AIDS; RABIES
 - HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
 - LICENSES -see also- ALCOHOLIC BEV LIC; DRIVERS' LICENSES
 - MEAT, POULTRY, SEAFOOD -see also- CLAMS; CRABS; OYSTERS
 - PRIVACY
 - RECORDS -see also- LAND RECORDS; VITAL RECORDS
 - REGISTRATION -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Agriculture
 - (
 3-801 ,
 3-802 ,
 3-803 ,
 3-804 ,
 3-805 
)
 
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
 - Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Available
 - Amendments (Displayed in WordPerfect 8 Format):
 House 
- Number: 090214/01 (PDF)     Offered on: March 15, 2005      at:
10:29 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
Senate
- Number: 104134/01 (PDF)     Offered on: March 31, 2005      at:
11:04 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 House 
- March 17, 2005: Third Reading Passed  (134-0)
 - April 1, 2005: Third Reading Passed  (136-0)
 
Senate
- April 1, 2005: Third Reading Passed  (46-0)