House Journal: Page 829: Wednesday, March 24, 1999

	Teig of Hamilton offered the following amendment H?1168 filed by 

him and moved its adoption:
H-1168
 1     Amend House File 322 as follows:
 2     1.  By striking everything after the enacting
 3   clause, and inserting the following:
 4     "Section 1. NEW SECTION.  172C.1  DEFINITIONS.
 5     As used in this chapter, unless the context
 6   otherwise requires:
 7     1.  "Contract livestock facility" means an animal
 8   feeding operation as defined in section 455B.161,
 9   where livestock owned by a contractor is produced by a
10   contract producer who owns the animal feeding
11   operation.  "Contract livestock facility" includes a
12   confinement feeding operation as defined in section
13   455B.161.  However, a contract livestock facility does
14   not include a custom cattle feedlot as defined in
15   section 579A.1.
16     2.  "Contract producer" means the owner of a
17   contract livestock facility who is paid by a
18   contractor for producing livestock owned by the
19   contractor at the contract livestock facility.
20     3.  "Contractor" means a person who owns livestock
21   and pays a contract producer for producing the
22   livestock at a contract livestock facility owned by
23   the contract producer.
24     4.  "Livestock" means beef cattle, dairy cattle,
25   sheep, or swine.
26     5.  "Processor" means a person engaged in the
27   business of manufacturing goods from livestock,
28   including a person who is required to be licensed as a
29   dealer or broker as provided in chapter 172A.
30     6.  "Produce" means to provide feed or services
31   relating to the care and feeding of livestock.  If the
32   livestock is dairy cattle, "produce" includes milking
33   the dairy cattle.
34     7.  "Production contract" means an oral or written
35   agreement executed by a contract producer and a
36   contractor who provides that a contract producer is to
37   receive payment for producing livestock owned by the
38   contractor at the contract producer's contract
39   livestock facility.
40     Sec. 2. NEW SECTION.  172C.2  PRODUCTION CONTRACTS
41   - CONFIDENTIALITY PROHIBITED.
42     A provision which is part of a production contract
43   is void, if the provision states that information
44   contained in the production contract is confidential.
45   The provision is void regardless of whether the
46   confidentiality provision is express or implied; oral

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