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ID H0114

Bill

Status

Passed

3/25/2015

Primary Sponsor

Agricultural Affairs Committee

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Origin

House of Representatives

2015 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Establishes that Idaho's pure seed law occupies the entire field of state regulation over seed cultivation, production, processing, registration, labeling, sale, storage, transportation, distribution, and planting to the exclusion of all local ordinances.

  • Prohibits political subdivisions from enacting any ordinance or regulation that prohibits or attempts to regulate seed cultivation, production, processing, registration, labeling, sale, storage, transportation, distribution, or planting.

  • Preserves the authority of counties and cities to enforce local zoning ordinances governing the physical location or siting of seed facilities.

  • Adds formal definitions of "cultivation," "processing," and "production" to the seed law definitions section to clarify the scope of state preemption.

  • Reorganizes and renumbers existing definitions in Idaho Code Section 22-414 related to agricultural, vegetable, flower, and tree seed classifications and handling.

Legislative Description

Amends existing law to provide for the applicability of specified law to the cultivation, production and processing of seeds and to prohibit regulation by political subdivisions relating to the cultivation, production and processing of seeds.

PURE SEED LAW

Last Action

Reported Signed by Governor on March 25, 2015 Session Law Chapter 101 Effective: 07/01/2015

3/25/2015

Committee Referrals

Agricultural Affairs2/27/2015
Agricultural Affairs2/12/2015

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