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House Agriculture Committee reviews 2023–24 agriculture, forestry laws and program funding
Summary
Legislative counsel Michael Grady summarized acts, committee bills and funding outcomes from the last biennium, including miscellaneous agriculture bills, forestry enforcement changes, assistance for organic dairy and small-farmer programs, and the creation of an animal welfare division at the Department of Public Safety.
Michael Grady, legislative counsel, told the House Committee on Agriculture, Food Resiliency & Forestry that the committee’s work in the 2023–24 biennium produced a string of enacted laws and several committee bills that were folded into larger appropriation packages.
Grady said the committee’s jurisdiction includes forestry and listed enacted measures by act number. “The Department of Parks and Parks came to you to look for some additional authority about when to issue burning permits or to issue no burning permits. And that's what act 21 did,” he said, describing authority given during periods of increased fire hazard. He then reviewed a series of miscellaneous agriculture bills and technical changes enacted as acts 42, 73, 160 and 141, among others.
The nut of Grady’s overview was that many items were technical or administrative but some carried substantive policy changes. For…
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