West Virginia House Bill 4295 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: Introduced on January 25 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-07 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to remove local health departments from farmers market permit process; transfer rules and regulations for farmers markets, cottage foods, acidified foods, nonpotentially hazardous foods and exempted foods from Department of Health and Human Resources to Department of Agriculture; clarify consignment markets; require farmers market registration and fees; expand farmers market vendor permits and fee structure to include egg permit and cottage foods permit; clarify certain farm and food products require other permits; permit sampling of certain food products; clarify scope, labeling and sources of cottage foods; require online farmers market sales be delivered in person; permitting home, farm, community or commercial kitchen to be used by cottage foods vendor as determined by the department; and clarify that cottage foods includes certain acidified foods, nonpotentially hazardous foods and exempted foods. This bill is recommended for introduction and passage during the 2018 Regular Session by the Joint Interim Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

Relating to farmers markets

Del. Allen Evans [R]	Del. William Romine [R]	Sen. Bill Hamilton [R]	Del. Ruth Rowan [R]
Del. Joseph Statler [R]	Del. Shirley Love [D]	Del. Jeff Campbell [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-07	House	To House Judiciary
2018-02-07	House	With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary
2018-01-25	House	To House Agriculture and Natural Resources
2018-01-25	House	Introduced in House
2018-01-25	House	To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary
2018-01-25	House	Filed for introduction

SB375 (Similar To) 2018-04-23 - Chapter 7, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	35	2	Amended Code	Citation Text
19	35	3	Amended Code	Citation Text
19	35	4	Amended Code	Citation Text
19	35	5	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4295&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4295%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4295