ClS—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 15,1980
LEGISLATIVE SCORECARD
©Lancaster Farming Newspaper
Week Ending March 7,1980
The process by which bills are drafted, considered and
enacted into laws is complex, lengthy and confusing even to
the most attentive observer Each week on these pages we
attempt to provide a roundup of legislative highlights, but in
the process, we cannot call attention to the many other bills
languishing or boiling in various stages of the legislative
process
This scorecard, which we plan to update every week the
legislature is in session, is an attempt to provide as complete a
rundown of farm legislation as we can
HOUSE ASKKULTim COMMITTEE.-
Bills under consideration by the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives Agriculture Committee, not yet placed on the
calendar for consideration by the full House
Prime sponsor/
Party/District
Goebel/R/Allegheny
George/D/Bucks
H 892
H 8228
Thomas/R/
Snyder-Union
H 8317
Cessar/R/ Allegheny
H 8541
Thomas/R/
Snyder-Union
H 8724
Noye/R/Cumberland-
Perry-Jumata
HB 738
Stuban/D/Columbia-
Montour
HB 758
Stuban/D/Columbia-
Montour
Thomas/R/
Snyder-Union
HB 759
HBBIB
Sinanm/R/Sullivan
Susquehanna-Wyommg
HBB2B
Yahner/D/Cambria
H 8847
H 8995
H 81042
Burns/R/Bucks
Stuban/D/Columbia
Montour
Noye/R/Cumberland
Perry Juniata
H 81092
J Wnght/R/Bucks
HB 1368
Cappabianca/D/Ene
Rodgers/D/Bucks
HB 1600
HB 1811
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Brief Description
A bill to abolish the milk marketing board
Amends clean and green legislation
to spell out duties of county
assessor, and to define forms and
land split-offs
Would amend food law to
set nutritional requirements
for imitation foods
Would abolish the Milk Marketing
Board
Increases salaries of chairman
and members of the Milk Marketing
Board
Would amend clean streams law to
prohibit any agency from requiring
fences to keep livestock out of
streams
Would give Pa Dept of Agriculture
power to certify marketing and
bargaining associations for certain
commodities, and to regulate the
marketing and bargaining process
Would authorize the creation of
agricultural districts
Would amend clean and green law
to provide for recording of preferential
assessment agreements and to continue
preferential assessment on original
tract in case of split-offs
Would set procedures for
the termination of milk
handling contracts, and would provide
enforcement, penalties and
remedies
Amends clean and green to more ■*
clearly define "roll-back
tax" and “split-off”
Dog law amendment
Restricts farmland ownership by
certain corporations
Would require certain state
institutions to make lands
available for public
agricultural programs
Amends clean and green to allow
for continuation of preferential
use assessment when a transfer,
separation or split-off results
in an estate subdivision
Weights and Measures amendment
Would regulate importation of live
wild rabbits, hares and other
rodents
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Farm related bills under consideration by the House Ap
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H 8856
Date
Referred
to
Committee HBIOO2
2-6-79
2-12-79
H 81176
2-14-79
H 81535
3-6-79
3-19-79
H 81793
H 81897
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SENATE AG COMMITTEE:
3-20-79
Bills under consideration by the Pennsylvania Senate
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, not yet placed on the
calendar for consideration by the full House
SB 83 Hoil/R/Lansdale
3-20-79
SB 101 Holl/R/Lansdale
SB 193 Manbeck/R/Lebanon
11-13-79
3-26-79
SB 251 Bell/R/Media
11-13-79
4-23 79
4-24-79
4-23 79
5-23 79
7-1-79
10-9-79
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Salvatore/R/Phila
Lynch/R/Chester
Wenger/R/Lancaster
Armstrong/R/Lancaster
Piccola/R/Dauphm
Burns/R/BucKs
Sen Howard/R/
Doylestown
Wenger/R/Lancaster
Thomas/R/Snyder-
Union
Pitts/ R/Chester
Thomas/ R/Snyder
Union
Thomas/R/Snyder
Union
Yahner/D/Cambna
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Would provide guidelines tor
harness i acrng employees
Would authorize creation of
agricultural preserves
Would eliminate any implied
warranty of freedom from sickness in
the sale of cattle, hogs and sheep
Would provide for the preservation
of prime agricultural land
Amends harness racing law to
increase the amount of money paid
into the Pennsylvania Fair Fund
Would increase Pennsylvania Fair
Fund and Sire Stakes incomes from
harness racing funds
Protects race horses from drug
and other forms of abuse
Amends liquified petroleum gas
act to provide for registration
of farmers in some cases
Provides a fee for
purebred livestock auctions
Would amend inheritance and
estate tax law to provide for
preferential valuation
of land in farms, ag reserve
or forest
Provides for land management
commission to assume management
and responsibility for farm
farmland now under control of
Department of Public Welfare
Would authorize the creation of
agricultural preserves
Would amend Pa liquor control
laws to allow limited manufacture
of liquid fuels for on farm use
Amends clean and green to further
define “agricultural reserve "
Dog law amendment
Would promote family farms by
establishing a family farm
security program to encourage
loans for purchase of real estate,
and by creating a family farm
advisory council
Would amend milk sanitation law
to require Pa
Secretary of Agriculture to
accept inspections by local
health departments
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