Plain English Summary
This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina agricultural laws, including updating water protection plans, creating a feral swine control working group, allowing denial of special use permits that harm agricultural production, repealing a violation points system for swine farms, modifying composting rules, allowing school absences for agricultural events, increasing penalties for crop theft and aquaculture violations, and making various technical updates to pesticide registration, public weighmaster licensing, and propane assessments.
Arguments in Favor
Supporters argue this bill helps farmers by providing water infrastructure support and conservation incentives during droughts, establishes coordinated feral swine management to reduce agricultural damage, allows communities to protect farmland from incompatible development, reduces regulatory burdens on composting and aquaculture operations, and increases penalties to deter crop and aquaculture theft. They also note it supports agricultural youth by allowing school absences for livestock shows and equestrian events.
Arguments Against
Opponents may contend that allowing denial of special use permits based on agricultural impact could restrict legitimate business development and property rights, that repealing the swine farm violation points system reduces oversight of environmental compliance, that modernizing composting rules could affect environmental protections, and that some increased penalties for aquaculture violations represent stricter enforcement. Some may also question whether the feral swine working group has adequate funding and enforcement authority.
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Sponsors
Primary Sponsor
Senator · District 2
Primary Sponsor
Senator · District 11
Primary Sponsor
Senator · District 9
Cosponsors (13)
Senator · District 31
Senator · District 46
Senator · District 1
Senator · District 29
Senator · District 33
Senator · District 3
Senator · District 25
Senator · District 7
Senator · District 48
Senator · District 4
Senator · District 44
Senator · District 24
Senator · District 30
Vote Breakdown (3 roll calls)
Final Vote
On: Amendment 2 Motion 1 To Table
Party Breakdown