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SF 1459 Senate Long Description

1E Relating to agriculture; making certain policy and technical changes; requiring the commissioner to prepare the permitting efficiency report annually; increasing agriculture best management practices loan program amounts; modifying the waste pesticide collection program disposal site requirement and cooperative agreements; modifying pesticide control record keeping, and incident response requirements; modifying fertilizer, soil and plant amendment licensee incident response plan requirements; specifying requirements for discontinuance of specialty fertilizer and soil and plant amendments registration; modifying seed law definitions, and content labeling requirements; modifying hybrid seed corn classification and official seed samples laboratory testing procedures; requiring the commissioner to determine prohibited weed seeds and restricted noxious weed seeds and the allowable occurrence rate; specifying conditions for the commissioner to grant seed law exceptions; adding certain native grasses and wildflower seeds to permit categories; including equipment and facilities in tag notice withdrawal from distribution orders under food law and specifying certain emergency powers of the commissioner; modifying minimum wage requirements for agricultural employees and modifying the definition of employee; requiring public grain warehouse operators to report on open storage and grain stored for feed processing; repealing incident response plan availability, the definition of pollinator lethal insecticide, and the agricultural growth, research, and innovation program sunset provision
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