House Study Bill 688


PAG LIN

  1  2    BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE RESOLUTION
  1  3                  BY CHAIRPERSON DRAKE)
  1  4 A Concurrent Resolution requesting the legislative
  1  5    council to establish an interim study committee to
  1  6    examine issues relating to fees imposed, assessed,
  1  7    and collected by the department of agriculture and
  1  8    land stewardship.
  1  9    WHEREAS, the department of agriculture and land
  1 10 stewardship provides a number of functions and
  1 11 services, including but not limited to the
  1 12 administration and management of agricultural
  1 13 resources; animal and plant health and production;
  1 14 meat and poultry inspection; market research and
  1 15 education; the protection of producers; and the
  1 16 inspection of standards, weights, and measures; and
  1 17    WHEREAS, many of the functions and services
  1 18 provided by the department are supported by fees
  1 19 established by statute and which have not have been
  1 20 examined by the general assembly for years or decades;
  1 21 and
  1 22    WHEREAS, it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive
  1 23 legislative examination of issues relating to fees
  1 24 imposed, assessed, and collected by the department,
  1 25 including whether statutes setting such fees should be
  1 26 amended in order to comply with modern practice and
  1 27 departmental responsibilities; NOW THEREFORE,
  1 28    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE
  1 29 SENATE CONCURRING, That the legislative council is
  1 30 requested to establish an interim study committee to
  2  1 conduct an examination of fees imposed, assessed, and
  2  2 collected by the department and of the necessity of
  2  3 those fees in performing its functions and services;
  2  4 and
  2  5    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the interim study
  2  6 committee's final report should be submitted to the
  2  7 legislative council and the general assembly by the
  2  8 beginning of the 2005 Session of the Eighty=first
  2  9 General Assembly.
  2 10 LSB 6466HC 80
  2 11 da/pj/5