Text: HF02493 Text: HF02495 Text: HF02400 - HF02499 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 HOUSE FILE 2494 1 2 1 3 AN ACT 1 4 PROVIDING FOR THE APPLICATION OF COMPOST MATERIAL TO LAND FOR 1 5 USE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. 1 6 1 7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 8 1 9 Section 1. Section 200.3, Code 1999, is amended by adding 1 10 the following new subsection: 1 11 NEW SUBSECTION. 15A. "Organic agricultural product" means 1 12 the same as defined in section 190C.1. 1 13 Sec. 2. Section 200.20, Code 1999, is amended to read as 1 14 follows: 1 15 200.20 PHOSPHORIC ACID, NITROGEN AND POTASH REQUIREMENTS. 1 16 1.No phosphaticExcept as provided in subsection 2, a 1 17 person shall not sell, offer for sale, or distribute, any of 1 18 the following: 1 19 a. Phosphatic fertilizer containing less than eighteen 1 20 percent available phosphoric acid (P205), nor any nitrogen. 1 21 b. Nitrogen fertilizer containing less than fifteen 1 22 percent total nitrogen (N), nor any potash. 1 23 c. Potash fertilizer containing less than fifteen percent 1 24 soluble potash (K2O), nor any mixed. 1 25 d. Mixed fertilizer in which the sum of the guaranteed 1 26 analysis of total nitrogen (N), available phosphoric acid 1 27 (P2O5), and soluble potash (K2O), totals less than twenty 1 28 percentshall be offered for sale, sold, or distributed in1 29this state.This section1 30 2. Subsection 1 shallneithernot apply tospecialty1 31fertilizers as defined in section 200.3, subsection 23, nor to1 32 any of the following: 1 33 a. A specialty fertilizer. 1 34 b. A fertilizer designed to be applied and ordinarily 1 35 applied directly to growing plant foliage to stimulate further 2 1 growth. 2 2 c. Compost materials to be applied on land, if any of the 2 3 following apply: 2 4 (1) The land is being used to produce an agricultural 2 5 commodity that is an organic agricultural product as provided 2 6 in chapter 190C, including rules adopted by the department 2 7 under that chapter. 2 8 (2) The land is in the transition of being used to produce 2 9 an agricultural commodity that is an organic agricultural 2 10 product, pursuant to rules adopted by the department as 2 11 provided in chapter 190C. 2 12 2 13 2 14 2 15 BRENT SIEGRIST 2 16 Speaker of the House 2 17 2 18 2 19 2 20 MARY E. KRAMER 2 21 President of the Senate 2 22 2 23 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and 2 24 is known as House File 2494, Seventy-eighth General Assembly. 2 25 2 26 2 27 2 28 ELIZABETH ISAACSON 2 29 Chief Clerk of the House 2 30 Approved , 2000 2 31 2 32 2 33 2 34 THOMAS J. VILSACK 2 35 Governor
Text: HF02493 Text: HF02495 Text: HF02400 - HF02499 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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