DIGEST
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or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 618 Engrossed 2020 Regular Session Thompson
Abstract: Provides clarification relative to adulterated commercial feed and labeling fees, and
authorizes additional uses of the Feed and Fertilizer Fund.
Present law classifies when a commercial feed is or is not considered adulterated if it contains a
poisonous or deleterious substance causing injury to health.
Proposed law retains present law and specifies if the injury is to the health of livestock, pets, or
humans.
Present law requires the Ag Chemistry and Seed Commission (commission) to adopt good
manufacturing practice regulations for medicating feed premixes and medicated feeds under federal
law.
Proposed law retains present law and adds a reference to federal law.
Present law authorizes the commissioner of agriculture to issue a stop order for the sale, distribution,
or movement of certain feeds when reasonable cause to believe that the feed poses immediate threat
to the lives and health of livestock in the state exists, and present law allows up to five working days
for the detainment of such feed.
Proposed law retains present law and adds the term "pets" in reference to the type of feed and type
of animals the feed poses a threat to. Proposed law changes the maximum amount of days for
detainment of the feed to 10 working days.
Present law requires registrants to pay a fee, not to exceed $20, when filing a label with the
commission, and requires the commission to establish, by rule, a schedule of labeling fees based on
the number of registrants, the volume of commercial feed sold in the state by each, and the estimated
expenses incurred by the commissioner of agriculture in administering the label program.
Proposed law removes the criteria by which the commission must establish the labeling fees by rule,
but otherwise retains present law.
Present law provides for the use of monies in the Feed and Fertilizer Fund to be expended on the
expenses of the office of agricultural and environmental sciences as determined by the commissioner
of agriculture. Proposed law retains present law and adds the office of animal health and food safety as an
acceptable expenditure of the fund.
(Amends R.S. 3:1396(1) and (8), 1399(C), 1401(B), and 1407(B)(1))