House Journal: Page 1790: Wednesday, April 28, 1999

	Teig of Hamilton called up for consideration House File 322, a bill 

for an act relating to production contracts, providing penalties, and 
providing an effective date, amended by the Senate amendment 
H-1791 as follows:
H-1791
 1     Amend House File 322, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the House, as follows:
 3     1.  By striking everything after the enacting
 4   clause and inserting the following:
 5     "Section 1. NEW SECTION.  8E.1  DEFINITIONS.
 6     As used in this chapter, unless the context
 7   otherwise requires:
 8      1.  "Active contractor" means a person who owns a
 9   commodity that is produced by a contract producer at
10   the contract producer's contract operation pursuant to
11   a production contract executed pursuant to section
12   8E.2.
13     2.  "Commodity" means livestock, raw milk, or a
14   crop.
15     3.  "Contract crop field" means farmland where a
16   crop is produced according to a production contract
17   executed pursuant to section 8E.2 by a contract
18   producer who holds a legal interest in the farmland.
19     4.  "Contract livestock facility" means an animal
20   feeding operation as defined in section 455B.161, in
21   which livestock or raw milk is produced according to a
22   production contract executed pursuant to section 8E.2
23   by a contract producer who holds a legal interest in
24   the animal feeding operation.  "Contract livestock
25   facility" includes a confinement feeding operation as
26   defined in section 455B.161, an open feedlot, or an
27   area which is used for the raising of crops or other
28   vegetation and upon which livestock is fed for
29   slaughter or is allowed to graze or feed.
30     5.  "Contract operation" means a contract livestock
31   facility or contract crop field.
32     6.  "Contract producer" means a person who holds a
33   legal interest in a contract operation and who
34   produces a commodity at the contract producer's
35   contract operation under a production contract
36   executed pursuant to section 8E.2.
37     7.  "Contractor" means an active contractor or a
38   passive contractor.
39     8.  a.  "Crop" means a plant used for food, animal
40   feed, fiber, or oil, if the plant is classified as a
41   forage or cereal plant, including but not limited to
42   alfalfa, barley, buckwheat, corn, flax, forage,
43   millet, oats, popcorn, rye, sorghum, soybeans,
44   sunflowers, wheat, and grasses used for forage or

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