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2020 SESSION
SB 954 Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program; established.
Introduced by: Mark D. Obenshain | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program. Directs the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to establish and administer the Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program (the Program). The bill provides that any dairy farmer that has a resource management plan or nutrient management plan and participates in the federal margin coverage program for dairy producers as contained in the federal Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 is eligible to participate in the Program. Under the bill, each year a Program participant will receive a refund of its annual premium payment paid into the federal program. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
FULL TEXT
- 01/14/20 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 20105430D pdf | impact statement
- 02/11/20 Senate: Printed as engrossed 20105430D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/19/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20108669D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/14/20 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 20105430D
- 01/14/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/28/20 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/06/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/20 Senate: Read second time
- 02/11/20 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/11/20 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/11/20 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/11/20 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/11/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB954E
- 02/11/20 Senate: Printed as engrossed 20105430D-E
- 02/11/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/20 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/20 Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/20 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/14/20 House: Read first time
- 02/14/20 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 02/19/20 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20108669D-H1
- 02/21/20 House: Motion to refer to committee agreed to
- 02/21/20 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/21/20 House: Read second time
- 03/03/20 House: Left in Appropriations