2025 bills / H.B. 414
H.B. 414 Raw Milk Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture and Food to make rules for testing raw milk at third-party laboratories, including when and how testing occurs and how illness investigations are handled. It also sets when a suspended raw milk permit can be reissued, when a cease and desist order can be issued or lifted after a foodborne illness outbreak, and when the department must give information to producers.
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Official description
- defines terms
- directs the Department of Agriculture and Food (department) to make rules regarding raw milk testing at third-party laboratories
- addresses epidemiological investigation
- addresses when and how testing occurs
- provides the standard for reissuing a suspended permit
- addresses the issuance of a cease and desist order
- provides the standard for removing a cease and desist order following a foodborne illness outbreak
- addresses disclosure of persons subject to a cease and desist order
- requires the department to provide information to a producer under certain circumstances
- clarifies penalty provisions
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 414 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 414 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Every vote
- 10 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 14, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 14, 2025Who voted how
- 61 yes, 5 no, 9 absentFinal House vote · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 28 yes, 0 no, 1 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how