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House Ag Committee approves emergency amendment and recommends do pass on bill allowing interstate and online cottage food sales
Summary
Senate Bill 23‑86 would allow interstate and online sales by cottage food operators in North Dakota; the House Agriculture Committee approved an emergency clause amendment and recommended the bill do pass as amended.
Senate Bill 23‑86, sponsored by Senator Desiree Van Oosting, would expand North Dakota's cottage food statute to allow interstate shipment and phone and internet sales by cottage food operators while retaining labeling requirements that identify such products as made in a home kitchen.
"This idea was brought to me by military families," Senator Van Oosting said, explaining that 35 states allow shipping and that opening interstate and online sales could help military spouses and other small rural entrepreneurs reach customers who follow them from state to state.
Janetta Sawyer, a cottage baker who recently moved to Minot, told the committee that the…
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