Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Agriculture

Event Details

Status:

Completed

Event Date:

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Start Time:

10:30 AM

Location:

B-2 and Virtual

Event Description

Joint Committee on Agriculture Public Hearing

The public is invited to participate in this hybrid hearing, which will be livestreamed on the General Court website, https://malegislature.gov/. Hearings will be recorded and posted publicly on the Joint Committee on Agriculture page: https://malegislature.gov/Committees/Detail/J38/Hearings

The Chair will limit testimony to three minutes per individual and reserves the right to call public officials out of turn. To register to testify virtually, you must provide contact information on this linked form by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 11^th. Once registered, you will receive further instructions on how to participate. All those wishing to testify in person may sign up at the hearing but are encouraged to sign up ahead of time at the link above.

For those testifying remotely, you will receive a Microsoft Teams link with more information prior to the start of the hearing.

Written testimony can be submitted via email at jointcmte-Agriculture@malegislature.gov or physically mailed to the House Chair:

CHAIR NATALIE M. BLAIS

JOINT COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

ATTN: JACOB KAMINSKY

24 BEACON ST ROOM 473F

BOSTON MA 02133

At the discretion of the Chairs, written testimony received by the committee will be made publicly available. The committee may limit availability or redact testimony that includes sensitive personal information, information about minors, or information that may jeopardize the health, wellness or safety of the testifier or others.

All matters filed in the House that are listed are required to be reported on by July 12, 2025, subject to extensions consistent with House Rule 27.

This hearing will be chaired by House Chair Natalie Blais. If you have any questions regarding the hearing, legislation, format of the hearing or reasonable accommodations required to ensure people with disabilities can participate fully in the committee process, please email: Jacob.Kaminsky@mahouse.gov. House Chair Blais’ office can be reached via telephone: (617) 722-2210.

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Item Name	Start Time	Duration	Webcast
Joint Committee On Agriculture - 5-13-2025	5/13/2025 10:30 AM	02:19:37

Food System 10:30am - 1:00pm

Bill	Bill Title	Sponsor
H.130	An Act relative to membership updates for the Massachusetts Food Policy Council	Hannah Kane
S.52	An Act relative to membership updates for the Massachusetts Food Policy Council	Joanne M. Comerford
H.120	An Act supporting the Commonwealth’s food system	Patricia A. Duffy
H.119	An Act to address the impact of climate change on farms and fisheries	Mindy Domb
S.60	An Act to address the impact of climate change on farms and fisheries	Dylan A. Fernandes
H.142	An Act establishing healthy soil performance guidelines	David T. Vieira
H.125	An Act establishing healthy soil performance guidelines	Jessica Ann Giannino
S.65	An Act establishing healthy soil performance guidelines	Paul W. Mark
H.111	An Act promoting equity in agriculture	Natalie M. Blais
S.53	Resolve promoting equity in agriculture	Joanne M. Comerford
S.57	An Act establishing the official marine invertebrate of the Commonwealth	Julian Cyr
H.139	An Act relative to rodeos	Adam J. Scanlon
H.137	An Act clarifying the definition of agriculture	Lindsay N. Sabadosa
S.70	An Act clarifying the definition of agriculture	Jacob R. Oliveira
H.135	An Act protecting the viability of farms in the Commonwealth	Steven J. Ouellette
H.134	An Act relative to agricultural crop and property destruction	Norman J. Orrall
H.133	An Act promoting dairy farms	Rita A. Mendes
H.131	An Act to open the Massachusetts lobster fishery	Patrick Joseph Kearney
H.127	An Act prohibiting the aquaculture of any species of octopus for the purpose of human consumption	Christopher Hendricks
H.123	An Act relative to reimbursement of the marine recreational fisheries development fund	Ann-Margaret Ferrante
H.118	Resolve providing for an investigation by a special commission relative to the strengths and sustainability of the Commonwealth’s emergency food network	Mindy Domb
H.116	An Act relative to the Massachusetts Food Policy Council	Antonio F. D. Cabral
H.115	An Act to create the department of marine fisheries resources	Antonio F. D. Cabral
H.113	Resolve to make America healthy again	Nicholas A. Boldyga
S.74	An Act relative to reimbursement of the Marine Recreational Fisheries Development Fund	Bruce E. Tarr
S.67	An Act to reimburse the George L. Darey Inland Fisheries and Game Fund	Michael O. Moore
S.59	An Act relative to farming in the town of Sutton	Ryan C. Fattman

	Document
	Hearing 1 All House Bill Summaries
	H111 Resolve promoting equity in agriculture
	H113 Resolve to make America healthy again
	H115 An Act to create the department of marine fisheries resources
	H116 An Act relative to the Massachusetts Food Policy Council
	H118 Resolve providing for an investigation by a special commission relative to the strengths and sustainability of the Commonwealth’s emergency food network
	H119 An Act to address the impact of climate change on farms and fisheries
	H120 An Act supporting the Commonwealth’s food system
	H123 An Act relative to reimbursement of the marine recreational fisheries development fund
	H125 An Act establishing healthy soil performance guidelines
	H127 An Act prohibiting the aquaculture of any species of octopus for the purpose of human consumption
	H130 An Act relative to membership updates for the Massachusetts Food Policy Council
	H131 An Act to open the Massachusetts lobster fishery
	H133 An Act promoting dairy farms
	H134 An Act relative to agricultural crop and property destruction
	H135 An Act protecting the viability of farms in the Commonwealth
	H137 An Act clarifying the definition of agriculture
	H139 An Act relative to rodeos
	H142 An Act establishing healthy soil performance guidelines

Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Agriculture

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