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Committee hears bills to repeal Wholesale Potato Dealers licensing
Summary
The Michigan House Agriculture Committee heard testimony on House Bills 4881 and 4882, which would repeal the state licensing requirement under the Wholesale Potato Dealers Act; witnesses said the $100,000 bond requirement is outdated, the program covers few dealers and the committee did not take a vote.
The Michigan House Agriculture Committee heard testimony on House Bills 4881 and 4882, which would repeal the state's licensing requirement under the Wholesale Potato Dealers Act, during a committee hearing. The bills' sponsor said the laws are outdated and redundant given federal protections and industry changes.
The bills are part of what the sponsor described as a "red tape" package intended to remove regulations that no longer serve Michigan's potato industry. The sponsor said the licensing regime grew out of concerns that wholesalers might fail to pay growers, but that a $100,000 bond requirement "doesn't even cover a fraction of the cost of what the dealers handle in transactions" and is now ineffective. The…
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