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Committee approves miscellaneous agriculture committee bill (draft 1.1) and clarifies 'beneficial substances' language
Summary
The Committee on Agriculture, Food Resiliency, & Forestry voted 8-0 to approve a miscellaneous agriculture committee bill (DR25-0903 Draft 1.1) and directed staff to submit a clean copy to legislative drafting operations for bill numbering.
The Committee on Agriculture, Food Resiliency, & Forestry voted 8-0 to approve a miscellaneous agriculture committee bill (posted as DR25-0903 Draft 1.1) and to send the document to legislative drafting operations so it can receive a bill number and be referred to the appropriate committees.
Members flagged one sentence near the end of the bill’s long list of definitions that refers to “other chemical or biological substances beneficial to plants or their growing environment.” Committee members asked whether the language was intended to sweep in products such as biochar and whether those items are regulated as soil…
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