Bill Text: IA HF508 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa House Bill 508 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act providing for certification requirements for persons actively involved in the operation of a commercial manure service. (Formerly HF 353)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-03 - Referred to Agriculture. H.J. 753. [HF508 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF508-Introduced.html

House File 508 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON
                                     AGRICULTURE

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO HF 353)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing for certification requirements for persons
  2    actively involved in the operation of a commercial manure
  3    service.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 459.315, subsection 2, paragraph a, Code
  1  2 2015, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    a.  A person required to be certified as a commercial manure
  1  4 service representative must be certified by the department
  1  5 each year. The person shall be certified after completing
  1  6 an educational program which shall consist of an examination
  1  7 required to be passed by the person or three two hours of
  1  8 continuing instructional courses which the person must attend
  1  9 each year in lieu of passing the examination.
  1 10                           EXPLANATION
  1 11 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 12 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 13    BILL'S PROVISIONS.  This bill reduces from three to two
  1 14 the number of hours of continuing education that a commercial
  1 15 manure service representative must attend in lieu of passing
  1 16 an examination, in order to be certified by the department of
  1 17 natural resources (DNR).  The continuing education hours would
  1 18 equal the number of hours of required attendance by confinement
  1 19 site manure applicators.
  1 20    BACKGROUND.  The provision amended by the bill (Code section
  1 21 459.315) is part of the "Animal Agriculture Compliance Act"
  1 22 (Code section 459.101).  There are two classes of persons
  1 23 required to be certified in order to manage manure:  (1)
  1 24 persons associated with a service engaged in the business of
  1 25 transporting, handling, storing, or applying manure, and (2)
  1 26 persons involved in livestock production and specifically
  1 27 confinement feeding operations who are engaged in the
  1 28 application of manure originating from their operations (see
  1 29 Code section 459.102 defining a "commercial manure service
  1 30 representative" and "confinement site manure applicator").
  1 31 In both cases, the person must either pass an examination or
  1 32 annually attend a designated number of continuing instruction
  1 33 courses.  A commercial manure service representative is
  1 34 required to attend three hours and a confinement site
  1 35 manure applicator is required to attend two hours. The Iowa
  2  1 cooperative extension service in agriculture and home economics
  2  2 of Iowa state university of science and technology cooperates
  2  3 in administering the continuing instruction courses.
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