House Journal: Page 795: Wednesday, March 21, 2001
transportation from the primary road fund for the purchase of salt
and including an effective date.
Read first time and referred to committee on appropriations.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Leave of absence was granted as follows:
Drake of Pottawattamie, until his arrival, on request of Rants of Woodbury.
The House stood at ease at 8:59 a.m., until the fall of the gavel.
The House resumed session at 9:55 a.m., Speaker Siegrist in the
chair.
CONSIDERATION OF BILLS
Regular Calendar
House File 502, a bill for an act relating to agricultural
production, by prohibiting acts relating to facilities or operations,
making penalties applicable, and providing penalties and civil
liability, was taken up for consideration.
Kuhn of Floyd offered the following amendment H-1249 filed by
him and moved its adoption:
H-1249
1 Amend House File 502 as follows:
2 1. Page 1, by inserting before line 1, the
3 following:
4 "Section 1. Section 199.1, Code 2001, is amended
5 by adding the following new subsections:
6 NEW SUBSECTION. 5A. "Contamination" means the
7 unintended presence of a plant or plant part
8 transferred from an originating area to an area
9 without the presence of the plant or plant part that
10 alters the genetic characteristics of a plant.
11 NEW SUBSECTION. 5B. "Crop" means any plant
12 produced from an agricultural seed or vegetable seed,
13 or any harvested part of the plant.
14 NEW SUBSECTION. 6A. "Field" means an originating
15 field or a neighboring field.
16 NEW SUBSECTION. 6B. "Genetically modified" means
17 to alter the genetic characteristics of a plant by
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