Legislative
Involvement
Legislative Issues
Stopped a bill to cover or
net live haul trucks.
Passed legislation making it
illegal to discharge a weapon within 300 yard of
a poultry house without permission of owner.
Passed the Right to Farm or Nuisance
Bill.
Introduced and passed legislation
that would grant sales tax exemptions on building
materials, equipment and electricity used in the
housing and production of poultry.
Stopped a bill requiring all
dead birds to be incinerated.
Revised legislation requiring
special storm water management building license
be obtained when building a poultry house to read, “Only
if the poultry house is over an acre in size.”
Stopped bill making it illegal
to take, catch or kill a game bird that has been
released from a cage.
Passed State funding for the
NPIP.
Passed the Farm Animals & Research
Facilities Protection Act.
Stopped legislation that would
impose a user fee on water for all individuals
not on well water. This would amount to an increase
of approximately $.50 per month per family. However
businesses such as our integrators would have been
required to pay as such as $150,000 per year.
Stopped a bill that would prohibit
trucks that weigh over 24,000 lbs from operating
on secondary highways.
Stopped four separate attempts
in the House version of the Appropriations Bill
to repeal our sales tax exemptions including electricity,
building materials, equipment, and other exempt
products such as natural and LP gas.
Stopped a bill that would require
all self-propelled farm equipment (i.e. tractors,
combines, etc.) to purchase liability insurance
same as autos.
Passed a bill requiring all ratites
entering the state to have a certificate of health
insurance indicating they are free from diseases
that would affect the poultry industry.
Introduced and Passed in the
State Budget Bill $5,097,000 to build a new Clemson
University diagnostic laboratory, replacing the
old Pontiac facility.
Stopped a Senate amendment that
would have placed more restrictive setbacks on
poultry operations.
Passed the Confined Livestock & Poultry
Regulation with as little negative impact to the
poultry industry as possible
Passed in the State Budget Bill
$200,000.00+ to obtain state meat inspection for
quail at no cost to the company.
Passed legislation that would
include food producers and processors as essential
water users should the state be declared in extreme
drought.
Passed the Right to Farm bill
that prohibits counties from passing more restrictive
ordinances than the DHEC regulations for permitting
of animal agriculture facilities require.
EVERY effort is being made to
keep us visible throughout the state for the betterment
of your industry. We urge you to support the SCPF
through dues, purchase of annual conference tickets
and SCPF PAC contributions.
