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House creates Agriculture Sustainability Task Force after amendments and reconsideration
Summary
House Bill 88, to form an Agriculture Sustainability Task Force and study solutions to sustain Utah agriculture, was amended to change an Executive Director membership slot to the Chair of the Utah Quality Growth Commission, further member-count amendments were adopted after reconsideration, and the bill passed 59–9 with a fiscal note of about $20,200.
On Feb. 17 the Utah House passed House Bill 88 to create an Agriculture Sustainability Task Force to examine ways to sustain the state's agriculture industry and recommend policy options.
Representative Draxler, sponsor, described the task force’s charge to look for solutions on pricing, markets, regulatory burdens and loss of productive agricultural land. He noted a fiscal note of approximately $20,200 and described the task force as…
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