Introduced
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To exempt portable toilets for farm workers from the law governing septic systems, and instead require the state agriculture and environmental regulation agencies to promulgate “field sanitation, worker protection and food safety” regulations. The current rules restrict moving portable toilets around a property, and the bill would allow this subject to specific conditions.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the amendment be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Amendment offered
To require rather than just allow the Departments Environmental Quality and of Agriculture to develop the proposed rules.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To include "spill response" procedures in the proposed rules, along with field sanitation, worker protection and food safety requirements.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 82 to 25 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Passed in the Senate 26 to 10 (details)
To exempt portable toilets for farm workers from the law governing septic systems, and instead require the state agriculture and environmental regulation agencies to promulgate “field sanitation, worker protection and food safety” regulations. The current rules restrict moving portable toilets around a property, and the bill would allow this subject to specific conditions.
Passed in the House 80 to 29 (details)
To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill.
