| IN | HB1483 | Intro | Grain indemnity fund. Amends the definition of "failed" or "failure" under the Indiana grain buyers and warehouse licensing law (licensing law). Provides that the director of the Indiana grain buyers and warehouse licensing agency (agency) may share ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-14 To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| IN | HB1283 | Intro | Urban agricultural zones. Provides that a qualifying farmer may apply to a designating body to have land designated as an urban agricultural zone. Provides that a designating body, before designating land as an urban agricultural zone, must hold a pu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-14 To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| IN | HB1521 | Intro | Agricultural conservation easements. Requires the Indiana state department of agriculture (department) to establish a program to assist individuals in creating agricultural conservation easements for agricultural land. Requires the department to assi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-14 To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| IN | HB1215 | Intro | Enforcement of pesticide violations. Provides a list of violations for which the state chemist may impose a civil penalty. Eliminates the schedule of civil penalties as adopted by the Indiana pesticide review board. (Under current law, the state chem... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-14 To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| IN | HB1540 | Intro | Farm processed meat. Provides, if certain requirements are met, that meat products from a custom exempt slaughter establishment in Indiana are eligible for sale by the owner of the slaughtered or processed livestock or poultry: (1) through any market... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-14 To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| IN | HB1472 | Intro | Right to farm. Provides that an agricultural or industrial operation is negligent if the person or persons that own, operate, manage, or otherwise control the operation fail to use reasonable care in any of the following aspects relating to the opera... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-14 To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| IN | HB1338 | Intro | Partition fences. Repeals provisions requiring the owners of adjoining parcels, at least one of which is agricultural land, to evenly split the costs of building, rebuilding, and repairing a partition fence separating the parcels. Makes a conforming ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-14 To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| IN | HB1268 | Intro | Return of lost pets to owners. Requires an animal care facility to adopt policies and procedures that govern the return of lost or stray dogs and cats to the dog's or cat's owner. Provides animal care policies and procedures that an animal care facil... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-14 To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| IN | HB1233 | Intro | Regulation of hemp production. Defines "approved laboratory" for purposes of testing hemp. Establishes sampling requirements for testing hemp samples not more than 28 days before harvest for the purpose of ensuring that the harvest lot does not excee... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-14 To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| IN | HB1420 | Intro | Agricultural emergency procedures. Amends the powers of the board of animal health (board) to allow cooperation with animal owners and law enforcement to plan for, prepare for, respond to, and recover from all hazardous emergencies in Indiana. Allows... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-14 To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| IN | HB1119 | Intro | Food purchases from agricultural programs. Provides that a public school or school corporation may purchase up to $7,500 of the food per fiscal year from a youth agricultural education program, subject to certain restrictions. Provides that the publ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-07 To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| IN | HB1103 | Intro | Home based vendors. Provides that a home based vendor who does not sell potentially hazardous food products and meets certain requirements may sell food made, grown, or raised by the individual to an end consumer directly, remotely, or through an age... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-07 To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |