Agriculture & Rural Affairs 2011-2012

The Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee met October 15, 2012 and reported the following bills:

As Committed

House Bill 2565 (Major): Amends Chapter 57 (Food Safety) of Title 3 (Agriculture) by exempting on-farm sales of honey from food licensing and registration.

As Amended

House Bill 2630 (Maher): Creates the Animal Euthanasia Method Act and makes a related repeal

The Seante Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee met December 14, 2011 and reported out the following bills:

As Amended:

Senate Bill 1169 (Waugh): Amends the Pa Farmland and Forest Land Assessment Act, (Clean & Green) to provide for certian composting activities on land enrolled in Clean & Green

Senate Bill 1298 (Smucker): Amends the PA Fair Dealership Law, providing for definitions, termination of dealer agreement, death or incapacitation of dealer and for repurchase of unused specialized repair tools.

Senate Bill 1329 (Dinniman): Amends the Animal Destruction Method Authorization Law providing for prohibited means of destroying animals.

The Senate Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee met Novermber 1, 2011 and reported out the following bill:

As Amended:
 Senate Bill 1321 (Earll): Creates the Agriculture  Disaster Recovery Program

The Senate Agricultural & Rural Affairs Committee met June 14, 2001 and reported out the following:

As Amended:

HB 562 (Gillen): Amends the Agricultrual Security Law of 1981 to provide the definition of contigious acreage and nullifies the existing definition.

As Committed:
HB 1424 (Bloom): Establishes the PA Preferred Act.

Nomination
Lynda Bowman, Milk Marketing Board