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Committee okays wider eligibility window for dry pea and lentil council seats
Summary
House Bill 1103, which would change the definition of "producer" for the dry pea and lentil council and relax the requirement that council candidates must have grown pulses in the immediate preceding season, received a committee Do Pass recommendation after testimony from the council and sponsor.
The House Agriculture Committee recommended Do Pass on House Bill 1103, which revises the statutory definition and eligibility language that governs elections to the North Dakota Dry Pea and Lentil Council.
Sponsor Representative Mike Vellst said the bill is intended to increase flexibility for candidates by eliminating a requirement that someone must have planted dry peas or lentils in the immediate preceding growing season to be eligible for council office. The proposal would instead allow a producer who has…
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