File Code: Agriculture
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Billings, Grosfeld, Hubbard, Bobo, Pendergrass,
Mandel, Oaks, Hurson, Pitkin, Franchot, Turner, Conroy, and Kopp
- Entitled:
-
Chicken Excise Tax - Nutrient Waste Management Fund
Imposing an excise tax of 1 cent per pound on all chickens or chicken
parts sold to retail food vendors in the State, to be paid by
distributors; providing for administration of the tax by the
Comptroller; establishing a Nutrient Waste Management Fund to be
administered by the Department of the Environment and to be used
solely for the costs of managing and disposing of wastes from chicken
farming operations in the State; providing for distribution of the net
revenue from the chicken excise tax to the Fund; etc.
House Action
- 2/12
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/18
- Re-assigned Ways and Means
- 2/25
- Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/19
- Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Leon G. Billings, District 18
- Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
- Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
- Delegate Peter Franchot, District 20
- Delegate Sharon M. Grosfeld, District 18
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
- Delegate John Adams Hurson, District 18
- Delegate Nancy K. Kopp, District 16
- Delegate Adrienne A. Mandel, District 19
- Delegate Nathaniel T. Oaks, District 41
- Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass, District 13A
- Delegate Joan B. Pitkin, District 23
- Delegate Frank S. Turner, District 13A
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- AGRICULTURE -see also- FARMLAND
- COMPTROLLER
- ENVIRONMENT, DEPARTMENT OF
- ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS -see also- NAT. RESOURCES; POLLUTION
- EXCISE TAX
- FOOD -see also- KOSHER PROD.; MILK PROD.; MEAT, POUL, SEAFD.
- MEAT, POULTRY, SEAFOOD -see also- CLAMS; CRABS; OYSTERS
- REFUSE DISPOSAL -see also- RECYCLING
- REVENUE AND TAXES -see also specific taxes -
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Environment
- (
9-352
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
