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House Agriculture panel amends bill to bar checkoff refunds during election funding, then votes do-not-pass
Summary
The House Agriculture Committee adopted an amendment to House Bill 1143 that would stop refunds of commodity checkoff dollars while the commission funds an election, but after debate the committee voted to recommend "do not pass" on the bill as amended.
At a House Agriculture Committee meeting, members considered House Bill 1143, a measure addressing selection of the state beef commission and the handling of commodity "checkoff" refund requests. Representative Dobrevich moved to re-refer HB1143 to the House Appropriations Committee; the committee approved that referral by voice vote.
Representative Twite offered and won an amendment that would prohibit further refunds of the checkoff assessment while the commission uses those funds to pay the cost of a commission election. "In order to fund the election process, no further requests for refunds of the check off dollars will…
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