Bill Text: IA SF2172 | 2011-2012 | 84th General Assembly | Enrolled


Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to management of swine, including by providing for biosecurity and development in a farrowing and gestating operation which is part of a confinement feeding operation, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SF 2022.) Effective 7-1-12.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2012-03-30 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 700. [SF2172 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2011-SF2172-Enrolled.html
Senate File 2172 AN ACT RELATING TO MANAGEMENT OF SWINE, INCLUDING BY PROVIDING FOR BIOSECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT IN A FARROWING AND GESTATING OPERATION WHICH IS PART OF A CONFINEMENT FEEDING OPERATION, AND MAKING PENALTIES APPLICABLE. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: Section 1. LEGISLATIVE INTENT. It is the intent of the general assembly to support swine confinement feeding operations maintaining swine as part of a farrowing and gestating operation by improving the biosecurity of the confinement feeding operation which provides for the on-site raising of replacement breeding swine for the confinement feeding operation’s sow herd. Sec. 2. Section 459.102, subsection 46, paragraph b, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows: b. (1) For a confinement feeding operation maintaining swine as part of a farrowing and gestating operation, two thousand five hundred or more animal units. (2) In calculating the animal unit capacity of a confinement feeding operation under subparagraph (1), an animal unit does not include replacement breeding swine, if all of the following apply: (a) The replacement breeding swine are raised at the confinement feeding operation. (b) The replacement breeding swine are used in the farrowing and gestating operation.
Senate File 2172, p. 2 (3) The method of calculating animal units under subparagraph (2) shall only be used for purposes of determining whether a confinement feeding operation is a qualified confinement feeding operation subject to section 459.206. ______________________________ JOHN P. KIBBIE President of the Senate ______________________________ KRAIG PAULSEN Speaker of the House I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and is known as Senate File 2172, Eighty-fourth General Assembly. ______________________________ MICHAEL E. MARSHALL Secretary of the Senate Approved _______________, 2012 ______________________________ TERRY E. BRANSTAD Governor
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