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Utah agriculture agency outlines bills to watch in upcoming legislative session
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Amber Brown, legislative affairs director at the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, summarized dozens of bills tied to water, livestock, hemp, vaccines and animal health that UDAF is tracking for the forthcoming legislative session.
Amber Brown, legislative affairs director at the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, briefed a departmental roundtable on a slate of bills the agency is watching for the upcoming legislative session.
"I think we have bills that are getting numbered, like, fast and furious, probably, 400 numbered already, which is a little bit crazy to me," Brown said, opening her rundown of measures the agency has been tracking.
Brown listed a series of House and Senate bills that UDAF staff have reviewed or helped draft. Among those she named: HB 41 (water policy amendments that would add monitoring of critical watersheds and provisions for water reuse); HB 45 (irrigation amendments dealing with canal operators and recovery of damages); HB 47 (livestock watering rights and repeal of livestock water use certificates, plus procedures tied to Public Water Reserve No. 7 claims); HB 54 (changes to the hemp…
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