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2020 SESSION
HB 119 Milk; definition, misbranding product, prohibition, provisions.
Introduced by: Barry D. Knight | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Milk; definition; misbranding; prohibition. Defines "milk" as the lacteal secretion of a healthy hooved mammal and provides that a food product is unlawfully misbranded if its label states that it is milk and it fails to meet such definition, except for human breast milk. The bill directs the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to implement a plan to ban all products misbranded as milk. The bill does not become effective until six months after the enactment, on or before October 1, 2029, of a similar act in any 11 of 14 specified states.
FULL TEXT
- 12/16/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101914D pdf
- 01/22/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20105331D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/04/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB119ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Governor's veto explanation
HISTORY
- 12/16/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101914D
- 12/16/19 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/14/20 House: Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture
- 01/15/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
- 01/22/20 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
- 01/22/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20105331D-H1
- 01/24/20 House: Read first time
- 01/27/20 House: Passed by for the day
- 01/28/20 House: Read second time
- 01/28/20 House: Committee substitute agreed to 20105331D-H1
- 01/28/20 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB119H1
- 01/29/20 House: Read third time and passed House (66-Y 32-N)
- 01/29/20 House: VOTE: Passage (66-Y 32-N)
- 01/30/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/30/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/18/20 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 2-N)
- 02/18/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/25/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N 1-A)
- 02/26/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/20 Senate: Read third time
- 02/27/20 Senate: Pending question, not ordered (16-Y 24-N)
- 02/27/20 Senate: Passed Senate (24-Y 16-N)
- 03/04/20 House: Enrolled
- 03/04/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB119ER)
- 03/05/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/05/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/12/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- 03/12/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 04/11/20 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/22/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 04/22/20 House: House sustained Governor's veto