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| Bill | Title | Sponsor | Status |
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HB1560
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1560 Pilkington TO ALLOW VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS TO ACCESS STATE…”
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TO ALLOW VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS TO ACCESS STATE PARKS AT NO COST. | Pilkington | Died on House Calendar at Sine Die Adjournment |
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HB1854
Act 1056
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1854 Hillman TO AMEND THE COMPOSITION OF THE STATE PLANT BOARD.”
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TO AMEND THE COMPOSITION OF THE STATE PLANT BOARD. | Hillman | Notification that HB1854 is now Act 1056 |
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SB405
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SB405 G.Stubblefield TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING EQUINE INFECTIOUS…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING EQUINE INFECTIOUS ANEMIA TESTING; AND TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENT THAT … | G. Stubblefield | Sine Die adjournment |
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On House Bill, what is that House Bill, number 1854, Representative Hillman, you'll recognize to present the amendment. We may need some explanation on this. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. When this
Representative David Hillman
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0:17
bill came through the Ag Committee before, it was, it's a straight cleanup bill
Speaker 4
0:24
to make sure that the plant board was doing what had the people on the board
Representative David Hillman
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0:32
that they thought would be on there. It got over to the Senate, and they put an amendment on the bill over there, and what the amendment does, instead of
Speaker 4
0:46
having someone, the original, the way the legislation is now, there's one position on there for the Feed Dealers Association. Feed Manufacturers Association. Feed Manufacturers Association, that's right. And that association either never existed or it hasn't been in existence for a long time,
and that position had been traditionally filled by the Poultry Federation and their feed manufacturers over there. That's the way
Representative David Hillman
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1:17
it was. The other one was cotton oil market. Well, the other change that was proposed in the original bill was giving
Speaker 4
1:27
the Department, I mean, the Division of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas, the vice president, the ability to appoint two non-voting members to the board rather than have those designated in the legislation.
Representative David Hillman
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1:43
In the Senate, that got changed. They now have a person on there from the Oil Marketers Association. And when I heard about that, the first thing I thought was why. But after some discussion
Speaker 4
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and things like that, it's logical to have those people on there because the Division of
Representative David Hillman
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Weights and Measures is part of the state plant board. And when there's a problem with some of the things they do,
they check every scale in the state, whether it's in a grocery store or truck scale or whatever. and they go by and they check the the pumps at the gas stations to make sure that they're going in that that they're accurate and everything and a problem they've been having is they've been finding water in the gasoline and they've been shutting the filling stations down until they got them fixed rather than
just giving them a warning and giving them a certain amount of time to get it out and stuff like that. So that was the logic behind putting the Oil Marketers Association on the plant board. It will give the Division of Weights and Measures, who is part of the plant board, they feel like they're a stepchild. They'll at least have someone that they can go to and someone that can kind of look over them and guide them in that direction. The other one was, there's one person on the board for fertilizer and cotton oil mills.
There's only one cotton oil mill left in Arkansas, and so they took the cotton oil mill off and
Speaker 4
3:32
gave that to the Plant Food Society, which are the people that do the fertilizer. And that's about the
Representative David Hillman
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3:40
best that I can tell you. Senator Caldwell chose not to be here this morning. I'm sure there was a good reason for that. But with
that. Okay, any questions from the membership?
Representative Rick Beck
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3:55
Representative Beck, you got a question? I'm having trouble with the amendment. This is on
line 31. I don't understand. And are we just deleting the cotton oil mills? The way the amendment reads, it doesn't look like it's right, if you go back to the bill. Like I said
Representative David Hillman
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or something. Okay, like I said before, there's only one cotton oil mill left in Arkansas.
So if you have a cotton oil mill representative on there, it's going to be a
Speaker 4
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representative of that one company. And, quite frankly, I don't know how much longer that cotton mill is
Representative Rick Beck
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4:46
going to be in existence. Okay. All right. No, I'm fine with that. I'm just curious as to the way the amendment
was written in. Okay. And, Representative Hillman, some of them came in a little bit late here in the members, so we'll kind of go back.
The contention is on the last part of the amendment here where we've stricken a feed manufacturer actively engaged to be elected by the Arkansas Feed Manufacturers Association. That association does not exist anymore, and that position has been being filled by the plant board or the poultry federation, correct? That's correct. Okay.
And now the Senate has stricken that and put in a member of the Oil Marketers Association, and they feel that is, help me walk through this, they feel like the Oil Marketers Association is germane or should have a seat on the plant board because the service stations, retail service stations, are regulated in a degree by the
plant board through the Division of Weights and Measures.
Speaker 4
6:03
Is that correct? That's correct. Now that I've got my glasses, I can actually read the
bill instead of having to stumble through it with my memory, Dan. I thought you was going by memory, and that's kind of shaky there. But anyway, members, are there any more questions on this? You know, Representative Hillman, the Poultry Federation, where they've had a seat, to your knowledge, are there any rules or regulations that the
plant board does that, I know the poultry industry utilizes a tremendous amount of soybean meal and corn and grain and stuff that the plant board's over to also regulate scales and that type of stuff. They do regulate scales and things
Representative David Hillman
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6:54
like that, but the poultry feed itself is not regulated in any way by the plant board. Okay.
All right. Members, any other questions? Can anybody in the audience speak against the bill, for the bill? Representative Hillman, are you closed for
Thank you. Do pass. Okay. Members, we'll have a motion to do pass. All those in favor, signify on the amendment. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed,
nay. Nay. Your amendment's passed, Representative Hillman. Okay.
Now we do pass on the whole thing? Are we through? That's it. Okay. That's it. We just
concurred and sent an amendment. Okay. All right. That's it, folks. Meeting adjourned.
Agenda
TO OFFER TESTIMONY ON A BILL, PLEASE SIGN IN TO BE RECOGNIZED BY THE CHAIR
CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENT
Number Sponsor Subtitle
HB1854 Hillman TO AMEND THE COMPOSITION OF THE STATE PLANT BOARD.
DEFERRED BILLS
Number Sponsor Subtitle
HB1560 Pilkington TO ALLOW VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS TO ACCESS STATE PARKS AT NO COST.
SB405 G.Stubblefield TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING EQUINE INFECTIOUS ANEMIA TESTING; AND TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENT THAT A CERTIFIED EQUINE INFECTIOUS
ANEMIA VERIFIER BE PRESENT AT AN EQUINE ACTIVITY.
Documents
| Title | Type | Pages | Source |
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| Agenda — AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE, Apr 9, 2019 | Agenda | 1 | Official source ↗ |
Speakers
Representative Dan M. Douglas Chair
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Representative David Hillman
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Speaker 4
Representative Rick Beck
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Speaker 11