SB 18-188

Senate Bill 18-188 updates Colorado’s Agricultural Marketing Act by including millet as an agricultural commodity. It also changes how notices about marketing orders are communicated, giving the commissioner of agriculture more flexibility in deciding how and when to announce these changes instead of requiring them to be posted in a specific office or newspaper. This bill has been signed into law, meaning its updates are now official state policy affecting farmers who grow millet and those involved in agricultural marketing orders.

Official Summary

The bill adds millet to the definition of an agricultural commodity in the 'Colorado Agricultural Marketing Act of 1939'. The bill removes the requirement that marketing order issuance, suspension, amendment, or termination be posted in the office of the commissioner of agriculture and published in a newspaper. Instead, the commissioner will determine the manner and time of public announcement of marketing order issuance, suspension, amendment, or termination. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More

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