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Committee advances bills on sheep milk sales, food-donation liability and cotton-industry overweight permits
Summary
The Agriculture Committee passed House Bill 1699 to add sheep milk to the raw-milk statute, approved an expansion of the Good Samaritan donation law to include canned and recently harvested game, and cleared a clarification letting cotton industry trailer combinations use overweight permits; actions were taken by voice votes with no recorded roll-call tallies.
The Senate Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development Committee passed several routine but policy-relevant bills in a single hearing day.
House Bill 1699: Representative Mary Bentley introduced the measure (running for Representative Les Eves) to add sheep milk to the list of permitted raw milks, alongside goat and cow. Bentley said the change responds to a constituent who sells sheep milk and wants to sell to neighbors. After brief questions about…
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