File Code: Agriculture
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Chair, Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request -
Departmental - Agriculture)
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Secretary of Agriculture - Farm Quarantine
 
Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a farm
quarantine and to issue appropriate orders necessary to control or
restrict the use of specified farmland, crops, livestock, poultry, or
farm products; requiring the Secretary to consult with the Governor,
the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the Secretary of the
Environment before establishing a quarantine; requiring the Secretary
to give specified notice of a quarantine and to provide procedures to
alter or remove a quarantine; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
Senate Action
- 11/16
 - Pre-filed
 - 1/13
 - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 1/6
 - Hearing 1/27 at 2:00 p.m.
 - 2/8
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 2/9
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Conway) Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 2/11
 - Third Reading Passed (43-0)
 - 4/5
 - Returned Passed
 
House Action
- 2/12
 - First Reading Environmental Matters
 - 3/22
 - Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/7
 - Favorable Report by Environmental Matters
 - 3/31
 - Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 4/1
 - Third Reading Passed (140-0)
 
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 4/13
 - Approved by the Governor
 -      - Chapter 34
 
Sponsored by:
- Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Com, Chair
 - Departmental
 - Agriculture, Department of
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Agriculture, Department of
 - Agriculture -see also- Farmland
 - Animals -see also- Birds; Turtles
 - Attorney General
 - Civil Actions -see also- Small Claims
 - Courts -see also- Circuit; Appeals; District; Orphans`; etc.
 - Diseases -see also- AIDS; Rabies
 - Environment, Department of
 - Farmland
 - Governor
 - Hazardous and Toxic Substances -see also- Asbestos; Radiatn.
 - Health -see also- Mental Health
 - Health and Mental Hygiene, Department of
 - Inspections -see also- Motor Vehicle Inspection
 - Judges
 - Law Enforcement -see also- State Police, Department of
 - News Media
 - Notices
 - Penalties and Sentences -see also- Death Penalty
 - Pest Control
 - Public Information
 - Safety -see also- Occupational Safety
 - Search and Seizure
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Agriculture
 - (
 2-103.1 ,
 2-103.2 
)
 
All documents except Roll Call Votes are
displayed in PDF format:
- Bill Text:
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
 - Fiscal and Policy Note:
 Available
 - Amendments:
 Senate
- Number: 214434/01     Offered on: February 9, 2010    at:
10:56 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 - Number: 633829/01     Offered on: February 9, 2010    at:
10:59 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- 
Committee Votes :
 
 Senate
- Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
 
House 
- Environmental Matters
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 Senate
- February 11, 2010: Third Reading Passed  (43-0)
 
House 
- April 1, 2010: Third Reading Passed  (140-0)