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Committee advances Department of Agriculture cleanup bill with stakeholder support
Summary
House Bill 369, an annual Department of Agriculture and Food cleanup bill, was presented by Representative Albrecht and the department’s Connor Peterson; stakeholders including the Utah Wool Growers Association and the Utah Sportsman's Caucus voiced support and the committee passed the bill out unanimously.
Representative Albrecht presented House Bill 369, the Department of Agriculture and Food’s annual cleanup measure, summarizing seven narrow statutory adjustments. The changes include a permissive word change in agricultural water-optimization language, clarification that ARDL/ARTL funds can be used for emergency disaster relief, creation of an expendable special revenue fund under weights and measures for large-equipment purchases, edits to livestock-brand statute language, removal of long-unused farm-name registration provisions, and updates to Agricultural Advisory Board membership to reflect USU’s new dean title.
Connor Peterson, director of legislative and government affairs for the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, testified in support. Sierra Nelson (presented in the record as both "Sierra" and "Sarah" in separate places) of the Utah Wool Growers Association and several other stakeholder groups testified in favor, citing the bill as helpful and non-controversial.
Senator Hankins moved to pass House Bill 369 with a favorable recommendation; the committee advanced the bill by voice vote and the chair ruled passage unanimous. The bill now proceeds to the Senate floor.
