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House Amendment 1996

Amendment Text

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  1  1    Amend House File 745, as amended, passed, and
  1  2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 1, by inserting before line 1, the
  1  4 following:
  1  5    "Section 1.  Section 163.2, Code 2001, is amended
  1  6 by adding the following new unnumbered paragraph:
  1  7    NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH.  As used in this chapter,
  1  8 "foot and mouth disease" means a virus of the family
  1  9 picornaviridae, genus aphthovirus, including any
  1 10 immunologically distinct serotypes."
  1 11    #2.  Page 1, line 20, by inserting after the word
  1 12 "areas." the following:  "This section does not
  1 13 authorize the department to provide for the
  1 14 destruction of personal property other than an
  1 15 animal."
  1 16    #3.  Page 2, line 10, by inserting after the figure
  1 17 "2." the following:  "a."
  1 18    #4.  Page 2, line 13, by striking the letter "a."
  1 19 and inserting the following:  "(1)".
  1 20    #5.  Page 2, line 18, by striking the letter "b."
  1 21 and inserting the following:  "(2)".
  1 22    #6.  Page 2, by inserting after line 20, the
  1 23 following:
  1 24    "b.  If the department confirms an outbreak of foot
  1 25 and mouth disease in this state, the department shall
  1 26 cooperate with the governor; federal agencies,
  1 27 including the United States department of agriculture;
  1 28 and state agencies, including the emergency management
  1 29 division of the department of public defense, in order
  1 30 to provide the public with timely and accurate
  1 31 information regarding the outbreak.  The department
  1 32 shall cooperate with organizations representing
  1 33 agricultural producers in order to provide all
  1 34 necessary information to agricultural producers
  1 35 required to control the outbreak."
  1 36    #7.  Page 2, line 26, by inserting after the figure
  1 37 "4." the following:  "a."
  1 38    #8.  Page 2, by inserting after line 28, the
  1 39 following:
  1 40    "b.  Upon the request of the executive council, the
  1 41 department shall develop and submit a plan to the
  1 42 executive council that compensates an owner of
  1 43 property, other than an animal, that is inadvertently
  1 44 destroyed by the department as a result of the
  1 45 department's regulation of activities in a quarantined
  1 46 area.  The plan shall not be implemented without the
  1 47 approval of at least three members of the executive
  1 48 council.  The payment of the compensation under the
  1 49 plan shall be made in the same manner as provided in
  1 50 section 163.15.  The owner may submit a claim for
  2  1 compensation prior to the plan's implementation.  The
  2  2 executive council may apply the plan retroactively,
  2  3 but not earlier than the effective date of this Act." 
  2  4 HF 745S
  2  5 da/cc/26
     

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