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Agriculture
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- Meeting date
- 2025-04-17
- Scheduled start
- 2025-04-17 10:30:00.000000
- Documented start
- Not recorded
- Documented end
- 2025-04-17 11:42:00.000000
- Location
- Room 308, House Office Building
- Official minutes
- Open official source ↗
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- Actual end
- 2025-04-17 11:42:00.000000
- Actual start
- Not recorded
- Chamber
- house
- Committee id
- committee-18
- Committee name
- Agriculture
- Evidence text
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE REP. JERRY NEYER CHAIR COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES The House Committee on Agriculture was called to order by Chair Neyer. The Chair requested attendance to be called: Present: Reps. Neyer, Wortz, Lightner, Alexander, Fox, Kunse, Pavlov, Dievendorf, Rheingans and Skaggs. Absent: Rep. Paiz. Excused: Rep. Paiz. Chair Neyer laid a presentation from the Michigan Vegetable Council before the committee. Greg Bird representing the Michigan Vegetable Council, Kent Karnemaat representing Karnemaat Farms, and Adam Van Dyk representing Vam Dyk farms gave presentation. Questions and discussion followed. The Chair laid HB 4122 before the committee: Representative Neyer offered the following amendment to HB 4122: 1. Amend page 12, line 11, by striking out "movie" and inserting "meeting". Representative Kunse moved to adopt the amendment to HB 4122. The motion prevailed 10-0-0: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Neyer, Wortz, Lightner, Alexander, Fox, Kunse, Pavlov, Dievendorf, Rheingans and Skaggs. Nays: None. Thursday, April 17, 2025 10:30 AM Room 308, House Office Building HB 4122 (Rep. Alexander) A bill to amend 2000 PA 92, entitled "Food law," by amending sections 1105, 1111, and 4102 (MCL 289.1105, 289.1111, and 289.4102), section 1105 as amended by 2014 PA 516, section 1111 as amended by 2018 PA 92, and section 4102 as amended by 2012 PA 178. Pass: None. Representative Skaggs testified in support of his amendment for HB 4122. Representative Skaggs offered the following amendment to HB 4122: 1. Amend page 12, line 21, after "2026." by striking out the balance of the line through "2026." on line 25. Representative Skaggs moved to adopt the amendment to HB 4122. The motion did not prevail 2-7-1: UNFAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Rheingans and Skaggs. Nays: Reps. Neyer, Wortz, Lightner, Alexander, Fox, Kunse and Pavlov. Pass: Rep. Dievendorf. Representative Lightner moved to report out HB 4122 with recommendation, as amended. The motion prevailed 9-0-1: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Neyer, Wortz, Lightner, Alexander, Fox, Kunse, Pavlov, Dievendorf and Rheingans. Nays: None. Pass: Rep. Skaggs. The Chair laid HB 4245 before the committee: Representative Alexander testified in support of HB 4245. Questions and discussion followed. The following people submitted a card in support of HB 4122 and HB 4245, but did not wish to speak: Mikaylah Heffernan, representing the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. Rebecca Park, representing the Michigan Farm Bureau. Representative Wortz moved to report out HB 4245 with recommendation. The motion prevailed 9-0-1: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Neyer, Wortz, Lightner, Alexander, Fox, Kunse, Pavlov, Dievendorf and Skaggs. Nays: None. Pass: Rep. Rheingans. At 11:23 AM, the Chair laid the committee at ease. At 11:24 AM, the Chair called the committee back to order. HB 4245 (Rep. Alexander) A bill to amend 2000 PA 92, entitled "Food law," by amending section 4105 (MCL 289.4105), as amended by 2016 PA 188. The Chair laid HB 4076 before the committee: Representative Alexander moved to adopt substitute (H-1) to HB 4076. The motion prevailed 10-0-0: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Neyer, Wortz, Lightner, Alexander, Fox, Kunse, Pavlov, Dievendorf, Rheingans and Skaggs. Nays: None. Pass: None. At 11:27 AM, the Chair laid the committee at ease. At 11:27 AM, Majority Vice Chair Wortz called the committee back to order. Representative Neyer testified in support of HB 4076. Questions and discussion followed. At 11:39 AM, Majority Vice Chair Wortz laid the committee at ease. At 11:40 AM, the Chair called the committee back to order. Representative Pavlov moved to adopt the meeting minutes from March 20, 2025. There being no objection, the motion prevailed with unanimous consent. The following person submitted a card in opposition to HB 4076, but did not wish to speak: Valerie Schey, representing the VEGMichigan. The following people submitted a card in support of HB 4076, but did not wish to speak: Pepin Tuma, representing the Good Food Institute. Rebecca Park, representing the Michigan Farm Bureau. Representative Fox moved to excuse Representative Paiz from the meeting. There being no objection the motion prevailed by unanimous consent. There being no further business before the committee, Chair Neyer adjourned the meeting at 11:42 AM. Representative Jerry Neyer, Chair Brittany Middaugh Committee Clerk bmiddaugh@house.mi.gov HB 4076 (Rep. Neyer) A bill to amend 2000 PA 92, entitled "Food law," by amending section 7129 (MCL 289.7129).
- Location
- Room 308, House Office Building
- Media count
- 2
- Meeting date
- 2025-04-17
- Meeting id
- meeting-83
- Meeting state
- held
- Minutes url
- Open official source ↗
- Quorum state
- quorum not determined
- Scheduled start
- 2025-04-17 10:30:00.000000
- Session name
- 2025-2026
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Michigan Legislative Activity and Evidence Dataset, release 2026-07-28.3, “Agriculture,” /meetings/meeting-83.
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