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Senate Health & Welfare advances cottage-food bill H401 after brief debate
Summary
The Senate Health & Welfare committee moved draft 4.1 of H401 — which defines "cottage food operator" and limits production to a private residential kitchen or kitchen on private property — to a vote pending edits. Lawmakers debated whether expanded regulation is needed, with at least one senator opposing the amendments.
The Senate Health & Welfare committee moved draft 4.1 of H401, pending edits, after a brief debate over whether the bill’s amendments expand regulation of small, home-based food producers.
The committee chair put forward a motion to “move draft number 4.1 of H401, pending edits,” and the clerk called the roll. The committee heard debate about a new definition in the draft: “Means a person who produces or packages cottage food products solely in the home kitchen of the person's private residential dwelling or in a kitchen on the person's private property,” read a staff member presenting the draft.
Why it matters: H401 would clarify where and how people may produce cottage food products,…
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