Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program; established. (HB1194)

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Progress

✓	Introduced
✗	Passed Committee
✓	Passed House
☐	Passed Senate
☐	Signed by Governor
☐	Became Law

Description

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 at the Tier 1 level 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. Read the Bill »

Status

12/04/2020: Failed to Pass in Committee

History

Date	Action
01/07/2020	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20105211D
01/07/2020	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
01/15/2020	Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture
01/28/2020	Impact statement from DPB (HB1194)
01/29/2020	Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
02/05/2020	Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/06/2020	Read first time
02/07/2020	Read second time and engrossed
02/10/2020	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
02/10/2020	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/11/2020	Constitutional reading dispensed
02/11/2020	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
02/18/2020	Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/18/2020	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
02/25/2020	Continued to 2021 in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 1-N) (see vote tally)
12/04/2020	Left in Finance and Appropriations