RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 333 (HB 618) 2020 Regular Session Thompson
Existing law requires the Agricultural Chemistry and Seed Commission (commission) to
adopt good manufacturing practice regulations for medicating feed premixes and medicated
feeds under federal law. New law adds a cite reference to federal law referenced in existing
law.
Prior law required registrants to pay a fee, not to exceed $20, when filing a label with the
commission and required 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. New law retains the criteria by which the commission must establish the
labeling fees by rule at a maximum of $20 but removes the requirement to establish a
schedule of labeling fees, the volume of commercial feed sold in the state, and the estimated
expenses incurred by the commissioner.
Existing 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. New law adds the office of animal health and food safety as
an acceptable expenditure of the fund.
Effective Aug. 1, 2020.
(Amends R.S. 3:1396(8), 1401(B), and 1407(B)(1))