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H0072...............................................by AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS
WEIGHMASTERS - Amends existing law to delete the prohibition against
issuing weighmaster licenses to applicants who have been convicted of any
felony within five years or who have paid any fine or completed any
sentence of confinement for any felony within five years.
01/19 House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
01/22 Rpt prt - to Agric Aff
02/13 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/14 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
02/16 3rd rdg - PASSED - 54-9-7
AYES -- Barraclough, Barrett, Bieter, Bolz, Bradford, Campbell,
Chase, Clark, Collins, Crow, Cuddy, Denney, Ellsworth, Eskridge,
Field(13), Field(20), Gagner, Gould, Hadley, Hammond, Harwood,
Henbest, Higgins, Jaquet, Jones, Kellogg, Kendell, Kunz, Lake,
Langford, Loertscher, McKague, Meyer, Montgomery, Mortensen, Moss,
Moyle, Pearce, Pischner, Pomeroy, Raybould, Robison, Sali, Schaefer,
Sellman, Shepherd, Smith, Smylie, Stevenson, Stone, Swan, Trail,
Young, Mr. Speaker
NAYS -- Bedke, Bruneel, Callister, Ellis, Hornbeck, Ridinger,
Roberts, Tilman, Wood
Absent and excused -- Bell, Black, Boe, Deal, Mader, Marley, Wheeler
Floor Sponsor -- Langford
Title apvd - to Senate
02/19 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Agric Aff
03/08 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/09 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/20 3rd rdg - PASSED - 35-0-0
AYES -- Andreason, Branch, Boatright, Brandt, Bunderson, Burtenshaw,
Cameron, Danielson, Darrington, Davis, Deide, Dunklin, Frasure,
Geddes, Goedde, Hawkins, Ingram, Ipsen, Keough, King-Barrutia, Lee,
Lodge, Noh, Richardson, Risch, Sandy, Schroeder, Sims, Sorensen,
Stegner, Stennett, Thorne, Wheeler, Whitworth, Williams,
NAYS -- None
Absent and excused -- None
Floor Sponsor -- Deide
Title apvd - to House
03/21 To enrol
03/22 Rpt enrol - Sp signed - Pres signed - to Gov
03/23 Governor signed
Session Law Chapter 145
Effective: 07/01/01
|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ||||
Fifty-sixth Legislature First Regular Session - 2001
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE BILL NO. 72
BY AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
1 AN ACT
2 RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; AMENDING SECTION 71-402, IDAHO
3 CODE, TO DELETE THE PROHIBITION AGAINST ISSUING WEIGHMASTER LICENSES TO
4 APPLICANTS WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY FELONY WITHIN FIVE YEARS OR HAVE
5 PAID ANY FINE OR COMPLETED ANY SENTENCE OF CONFINEMENT FOR ANY FELONY
6 WITHIN FIVE YEARS.
7 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
8 SECTION 1. That Section 71-402, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
9 amended to read as follows:
10 71-402. LICENSING OF WEIGHMASTERS. Any person acting as a public weigh-
11 master of grains, dry peas, potato starch, dry beans, leguminous and all other
12 small seeds, hay, wool, bulk potatoes, bulk fertilizers, sugar beets and feeds
13 (not including minerals) or any of them shall make application to the director
14 of the department for a weighmaster's license. Application for a weighmaster's
15 license shall be in writing on a form prescribed by the director. Each appli-
16 cant shall furnish satisfactory evidence of good moral character, ability to
17 weigh accurately and to make correct weight tickets. Upon receipt of the
18 application with satisfactory evidence of qualifications, on or before July 1,
19 1949, and annually thereafter, and a license fee of ten dollars ($10.00), the
20 director shall issue an annual weighmaster's license. No weighmaster's license
21 shall be issued to any applicant for such license who is under the age of
22 eighteen (18) or who has been convicted of any felony within five (5) years or
23 has paid any fine or completed any sentence of confinement for any felony
24 within five (5) years, or to any person whose license issued under this act
25 has been revoked.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 10478
Amend Title 71, Chapter 4, Section 71-402 Idaho Code to eliminate
the language referring to conviction of a felony. The amendment
will delete language that serves no real purpose and that has been
in the "Weighmaster's Licensing Act" since 1949 when the law was
first enacted.
FISCAL NOTE
None
CONTACT:
Name: Lee Stacey, Acting Administrator, Department of Agriculture
Phone: (208) 332-8670
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