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Agriculture committee advances resolutions on rulemaking, urban agriculture, cloud seeding and weather modification
Summary
The Idaho Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee voted to advance a Senate resolution on rulemaking and sent three Senate resolutions — on urban agriculture definitions, cloud-seeding reporting, and weather modification — to print during a committee meeting. Votes were taken by voice; no recorded opposition was announced.
The Idaho Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee advanced four legislative items during a committee meeting and sent three Senate resolutions to print, moving them one step closer to consideration by the full Senate.
Senators voted to send RS 32176, a Senate resolution concerning the state rulemaking process for several agencies, to the tenth order on the Senate calendar. The committee also approved printing for RS 32228, a trailer bill clarifying definitions related to urban agriculture and small-scale livestock; RS 32229C1, which would add reporting requirements for cloud-seeding operations; and RS 32239C1, a bill addressing weather-modification activities and eliminating an obsolete taxing district.
Why it matters: The measures touch administrative rulemaking, definitions that shape where and how urban agriculture activities are regulated, transparency for cloud-seeding programs, and a statutory prohibition on unpermitted…
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