Senate File 2022 - Introduced SENATE FILE 2022 BY KIBBIE A BILL FOR An Act relating to management of swine, including by providing 1 for biosecurity and development in a farrowing and gestating 2 operation which is part of a confinement feeding operation, 3 and making penalties applicable. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 5483XS (3) 84 da/rj

S.F. 2022 Section 1. LEGISLATIVE INTENT. It is the intent of 1 the general assembly to support swine confinement feeding 2 operations maintaining swine as part of a farrowing and 3 gestating operation by improving the biosecurity of the 4 confinement feeding operation which provides for the on-site 5 raising of replacement breeding swine for the confinement 6 feeding operation’s sow herd. 7 Sec. 2. Section 459.102, subsection 46, paragraph b, Code 8 2011, is amended to read as follows: 9 b. For a confinement feeding operation maintaining swine 10 as part of a farrowing and gestating operation, two thousand 11 five hundred or more animal units. In calculating the animal 12 unit capacity of a confinement feeding operation under this 13 paragraph, an animal unit does not include replacement breeding 14 swine, if all of the following apply: 15 (1) The replacement breeding swine are raised at the 16 confinement feeding operation. 17 (2) The replacement breeding swine are used in the farrowing 18 and gestating operation. 19 EXPLANATION 20 LEGISLATIVE INTENT. The bill provides that it is the 21 intent of the general assembly to support certain swine 22 confinement feeding operations (facilities which house swine 23 under a roof) and specifically sow reproduction operations, 24 referred to as a farrowing and gestating operation. The 25 general assembly declares an intent to improve biosecurity of 26 confinement feeding operations involved in the on-site raising 27 of replacement of breeding swine. 28 CURRENT LAW. Currently, special regulations apply to the 29 storage of manure originating from a so-called “qualified 30 confinement feeding operation” which includes a farrowing 31 and gestating operation. The confinement feeding operation 32 is designated as qualified if the maximum number of animal 33 units that may be maintained there at any one time (animal 34 unit capacity) equals 2,500 or more animal units (Code section 35 -1- LSB 5483XS (3) 84 da/rj 1/ 2

S.F. 2022 459.102). Generally, once classified as qualified, the 1 confinement feeding operation must store manure in a structure 2 that maintains aeration equipment (Code section 459.206). 3 ANIMAL UNITS CALCULATED. Generally, an animal unit is 4 calculated based on animal size. For example, each head of 5 breeding swine is equal to 0.400 animal units and each head of 6 swine weighing 15 pounds or more but not more than 55 pounds 7 is equal to 0.100 animal units. For example, a person keeping 8 1,000 sows would have 400 animal units (1,000 x .4). 9 RECALCULATING ANIMAL UNITS. The bill changes how animal 10 units are calculated in order to determine if a confinement 11 feeding operation which includes a farrowing and gestating 12 operation is considered qualified. Under the bill, replacement 13 breeding swine are not counted if two conditions are satisfied. 14 First, the replacement breeding swine must be raised at the 15 confinement feeding operation and second, the replacement 16 breeding swine must be used in the farrowing and gestating 17 operation. 18 -2- LSB 5483XS (3) 84 da/rj 2/ 2