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Committee keeps pet-food fee funding for statewide spay-and-neuter program, adds farm-product permitting exemption
Summary
The Senate Agriculture Committee reported the engrossed committee substitute for HB 2158 to the full Senate with a recommendation that it pass as amended and first be referred to the Government Organization Committee. The bill removes a June 2027 sunset on registration fees charged on pet food packages that fund the West Virginia spay-and-neuter
The West Virginia Senate Agriculture Committee voted to report the engrossed committee substitute for House Bill 2158 to the full Senate with the recommendation that it pass as amended and, under the bill's double reference, first be referred to the committee on Government Organization.
Committee counsel told members that HB 2158 would amend West Virginia Code §19-4-5 to remove the June 2027 sunset on registration fees charged on bulk and non-bulk pet food packages; those fees are used to fund the West Virginia spay-and-neuter program. Removing the sunset would…
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