Mike
Well-known member
HB254
By Representative Galliher
RFD Agriculture and Forestry
Rd 1 10-JAN-06
SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, information collected by the State Department of Agriculture and Industries from livestock farmers in order to implement and maintain a database consistent with the United States Department of Agriculture's National Animal Identification System would not necessarily be confidential. Also under existing law, the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Industries has no specific authority to keep confidential any personal information about individual farming operations that the commissioner may choose to collect in the interest of public health, safety, and welfare.
This bill would authorize the department to develop and implement an animal identification system consistent with the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal Identification System. This bill would provide that information collected by the department to implement and maintain the animal identification system would be confidential with certain exceptions. This bill would authorize the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Industries to make confidential certain information the commissioner may collect in the interest of public health, safety, and welfare.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
To authorize the State Department of Agriculture and Industries to develop and implement an animal identification system; to provide that the information collected to implement and maintain the system is confidential; and to authorize the department to make confidential certain information the commissioner may collect in the interest of public health, safety, and welfare.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. (a) The Department of Agriculture and Industries may develop and implement an animal identification program that is consistent with the United States Department of Agriculture's National Animal Identification System.
(b) The department may require all persons subject to the identification program to provide all information necessary as determined by the department to implement and maintain the program.
(c) All information collected by the department pursuant to this section is confidential and shall not be subject to public disclosure except by order of a court of competent jurisdiction or as authorized by rule of the department.
Section 2. In the interest of public health, safety, and welfare, the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Industries may collect information, from time to time, regarding the existence, operation, or business of livestock, milk and dairy products, eggs, cotton, poultry, commercial feed, grain, seed, fertilizer, plants and trees, pesticides, or any other subject regulated by the department pursuant to Title 2 of the Code of Alabama 1975. In order to collect the information without revealing the personal information about individual farming operations, the commissioner may make the information collected pursuant to this section confidential except as otherwise provided by law.
Section 3. All laws or parts of laws which conflict with this act are repealed.
Section 4. This act shall become effective on the first day of the third month following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.
By Representative Galliher
RFD Agriculture and Forestry
Rd 1 10-JAN-06
SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, information collected by the State Department of Agriculture and Industries from livestock farmers in order to implement and maintain a database consistent with the United States Department of Agriculture's National Animal Identification System would not necessarily be confidential. Also under existing law, the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Industries has no specific authority to keep confidential any personal information about individual farming operations that the commissioner may choose to collect in the interest of public health, safety, and welfare.
This bill would authorize the department to develop and implement an animal identification system consistent with the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal Identification System. This bill would provide that information collected by the department to implement and maintain the animal identification system would be confidential with certain exceptions. This bill would authorize the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Industries to make confidential certain information the commissioner may collect in the interest of public health, safety, and welfare.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
To authorize the State Department of Agriculture and Industries to develop and implement an animal identification system; to provide that the information collected to implement and maintain the system is confidential; and to authorize the department to make confidential certain information the commissioner may collect in the interest of public health, safety, and welfare.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. (a) The Department of Agriculture and Industries may develop and implement an animal identification program that is consistent with the United States Department of Agriculture's National Animal Identification System.
(b) The department may require all persons subject to the identification program to provide all information necessary as determined by the department to implement and maintain the program.
(c) All information collected by the department pursuant to this section is confidential and shall not be subject to public disclosure except by order of a court of competent jurisdiction or as authorized by rule of the department.
Section 2. In the interest of public health, safety, and welfare, the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Industries may collect information, from time to time, regarding the existence, operation, or business of livestock, milk and dairy products, eggs, cotton, poultry, commercial feed, grain, seed, fertilizer, plants and trees, pesticides, or any other subject regulated by the department pursuant to Title 2 of the Code of Alabama 1975. In order to collect the information without revealing the personal information about individual farming operations, the commissioner may make the information collected pursuant to this section confidential except as otherwise provided by law.
Section 3. All laws or parts of laws which conflict with this act are repealed.
Section 4. This act shall become effective on the first day of the third month following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.
