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Dairy bills set to be heard in Annapolis next week
2.26.2008
BY CARYL VELISEK
AFP Correspondent
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Several hearings have been set in Annapolis as a result of recommendations by the Maryland Dairy Industry Oversight and Advisory Council, which has been meeting for a year.
A hearing of Del. Paul Stull’s, R-Dist. 4A, House Bill 543, the Maryland Dairy Farmer Emergency Trust Fund, which would establish a $15 million dollar fund to support dairy farmers during times of economic crisis is set for Wednesday at 1 p.m. in Room 250 in the Lowe House Building. Stull had 52 bi-partisan co-sponsors for this bill.
The hearing for the Senate version of Del. Stull’s bill, Sen. Brinkley’s, R-Dist. 4, SB 503, to support dairy farmers, will be held Thursday at 1 p.m., in 2 West Miller Senate Building. Sen. Brinkley has 12 co-sponsors for his bill.
Another Stull bill, HB 1367, prohibiting milk dealers from selling or offering to sell fluid milk products at less than specified cost, is a follow-up on the milk processor’s recommendation, and is scheduled for hearing on March 3 at 2:30 p.m. in the House Economic Matters Committee room. This bill had 13 co-sponsors.
Sen. Conway’s House bill prohibiting selling below specified cost is SB 497 and the hearing is March 6 at 1 p.m. in the Senate Finance Committee room.
Senate Bill 684, a companion bill to Del. Stull’s bill proposed by Sen. Mac Middleton, D-Dist. 28, prohibiting milk sales below cost, is to be heard March 6 at 1 p.m. also. Sen. Middleton’s bill has six co-sponsors.
Another bill of interest to dairymen is Sen. Conway’s, D-Dist. 43, SB 494, that would require “persons that purchase milk crates to make a specified record of each transaction in which a person sells five or more plastic milk crates, requiring purchasers to verify the identity of the sellers in a specified manner, requiring purchasers to keep specified records of the transactions, requiring the records to be kept for one year, and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of $100.” No date has been set at this time for a hearing of this bill.