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Committee backs broad Agriculture and Food cleanup bill after brief hearing
Summary
The House Health and Human Services Committee voted unanimously to favorably recommend HB 253, a 52-page Agriculture and Food Amendments bill that makes administrative changes to multiple agriculture programs, expands a veterinarian loan-repayment program, and adjusts water and conservation funding priorities.
Representative Kay Christofferson Albrecht presented House Bill 253, Agriculture and Food Amendments, to the House Health and Human Services Standing Committee and the committee voted to favorably recommend the bill.
The bill is an omnibus administrative cleanup for the Department of Agriculture spanning 1,742 lines and 52 pages, Albrecht said. "This is a cleanup bill, administrative bill, for the Department of Ag," she told the committee, and she highlighted several sections she said were among the bill's main changes.
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