IF THIS IS THE FINAL VERSION OF THE BILL IN THE HOUSE
SHOULD WE SUPPORT IT?

Charlie Winterwood
Chair
Iowa Chapter

--- Jane Clark <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From Mark Lambert
> Iowa Environmental Council
>
> First, thanks to everyone who called or e-mailed
> your Senator regarding SF
> 503, the "open feedlots" bill.    This bill was
> being supported by the Iowa
> Cattlemen's Association, and the original language
> said that DNR could not
> require manure-control practices unless 50% cost
> share was provided by the
> government.
>
> The bill was brought up for debate in the Iowa
> Senate last evening, Monday,
> April 2.   Senator Mike Sexton (R -Rockwell City)
> floor-managed the bill.
> Senator Jack Kibbie (D-Emmetsburg) offered an
> amendment to change the
> requirement for cost share from "at least" 50% to
> "up to" 50%.   The
> amendment passed.
>
> Then, Senator Mary Lundby  (R-Marion) offered an
> amendment to prohibit the
> construction of an animal feeding operation in a
> 100-year floodplain.
> (This language was the same as a bill that had
> passed out of the Senate
> Natural Resources Committee earlier this year,  but
> has never been placed
> on the debate calendar).    Senator Sexton
> questioned whether the amendment
> was germane to the bill.   The chair ruled that the
> amendment was germane.
>
> Those speaking in favor of the amendment were
> Senators Lundby, McKean,
> Black, Fiegen, Kibbie, Hansen.    Those speaking in
> opposition were Senator
> Sexton and King.   HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS:  After more
> than an hour of
> debate, the amendment passed by a 47-3 vote.
> Senators voting "no" were
> King, McLaren and Drake.
>
> The Senators then debated the bill further, and the
> final vote on the bill
> was 32-18.  The eighteen "no" votes were:  Bolkcom,
> Connolly, Dearden,
> Deluhery, Dvorsky, Fink, Flynn, Gronstal, Hammond,
> Hansen, Harper, Holveck,
> Horn, Maddox, McCoy, Redfern, Shearer and Tinsman.
> Some Senators who were
> going to oppose the bill decided to vote for it
> since the Lundby amendment
> passed.
>
> ACTION TO TAKE:  SF 503 now goes to the House, and
> it is very likely it
> will be assigned to the House Agriculture Committee.
>     If your
> Representative is on the House Ag Committee, please
> contact her or him and
> 1)  urge opposition to the language that conditions
> enforcement of
> manure-management laws on the provision of
> cost-share money and 2) urge
> support of the language banning the construction of
> animal feeding
> operations in the 100-year floodplain.   Members of
> the House Ag Committee
> are:  Klemme, De Boef, Kuhn, Alons, Atteberry,
> Baudler, Boggess, Fallon,
> Frevert, Houser, Huseman, Johnson, Kreiman,
> Manternach, May, Mertz,
> Rayhons, Rekow, Scherrman, Schrader, Teig.
>
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