HB 2864-S - DIGEST

(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)

     Declares that the marketing of organic foods within this state is affected with a public interest.  It is vital to the continued economic well-being of the citizens of this state, their general welfare, and the environment that its organic agricultural commodities be properly promoted by (1) enabling producers of organic agricultural commodities to help themselves in establishing orderly, fair, sound, efficient, and unhampered marketing, grading, standardizing, and labeling of the organic commodities they produce and (2) working towards stabilizing the organic agricultural industry by increasing consumption of organic agricultural commodities within the state, the nation, and internationally.