File Code: Agriculture
- Sponsored By:
-
Chair, Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request -
Departmental - Agriculture)
- Entitled:
-
Secretary of Agriculture - Farm Food Safety
Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a farm
quarantine for a specified purpose on a farm infected or infested with
a pathogen; authorizing the Secretary to examine specified practices
in accordance with specified standards, designate a specified person
to conduct a specified inspection, and accept specified assistance
from specified federal agencies; requiring the Secretary to deny
access to specified information subject to a specified exception; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
For explanation of terms
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Senate Action
- 1/18
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 1/19
- Hearing 2/7 at 1:00 p.m.
- 1/25
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/20
- Favorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 2/21
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 2/22
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- 3/31
- Returned Passed
House Action
- 2/24
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 3/12
- Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/4
- Favorable Report by Environmental Matters
- 3/30
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 3/31
- Third Reading Passed (138-0)
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 4/10
- Approved by the Governor
- - Chapter 32
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
- Disclosure
- Diseases -see also- AIDS; Rabies
- Farmland
- Federal Government
- Health -see also- Mental Health
- Hearings
- Inspections -see also- Motor Vehicle Inspection
- Licenses -see also- Alcoholic Bev Lic; Drivers' Licenses
- Meat, Poultry, Seafood -see also- Clams; Crabs; Oysters
- Public Information
- Safety -see also- Occupational Safety
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Agriculture
- (
2-103.1
,
10-601
,
10-602
,
10-603
,
10-607
,
10-608
)
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:
None offered
-
Committee Votes :
Senate
- Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
House
- Environmental Matters
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
Senate
- February 22, 2012: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
House
- March 31, 2012: Third Reading Passed (138-0)