State Legislature

Ag bill refiled without deer provision

The Chairman of the Missouri Senate Ag Committee has pre-filed an updated version of the broad ag bill that Governor Jay Nixon vetoed earlier this year… Senator Brian Munzlinger tells Brownfield Ag News, “I know that through the veto session (in September) the comments that I was hearing from colleagues in both the Senate and the House was that it would be a lot better and they’d try to fast-track all those ag provisions if the deer provision wasn’t in it. So, I did leave that out right now.”

Lawmakers were unable to overturn the governor’s veto in the September veto session. Nixon did not like the provision in the bill that would have moved oversight of domesticated deer from the state Conservation Department to the state Agriculture Department. Munzlinger tells Brownfield he will pursue that change in a stand-alone bill.

He says the Dairy Revitalization Act is a major part of this bill for the 2015 legislative session as it was in the original.