| |  Restore Herdshares & Property Rights in Utah Use Email Petition & Contact Ag Committee Utah House Bill 104 (HB 104), Cow-Share Program Amendments, would restore property rights and allow herdshares in Utah that were outlawed in 2007. HB 104 will be heard before the House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee again at 7 a.m. Tuesday morning, March 3. Please contact legislators immediately with this Email Petition and follow up with phone calls or texts! See below for details and this Facebook page for updates.
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Action #1 - Use Email Petition
Please send a message to members of the House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee via this Email Petition and ask them to support HB 104. Also, please be courteous as this helps to build good relations with the legislature.
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Action #2 - Call or Text Legislators To be most effective, please follow up the email petition with a phone call or text, as time permits. The vote is scheduled for Tuesday morning, March 3! Again, please be courteous as this helps to build good relations with the legislature.
Find contact information for the House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee below.
At least six committee members were undecided or opposed the bill at the February 6 hearing. Please be sure to follow up with courteous calls to Reps. Perry, Sagers, Briscoe, Powell, Sandall and Chew (see phone numbers listed below). |
Talking Points Reportedly, the bill has been changed to allow for herdshare programs with no more than two milking cows, ten goats or ten sheep. Most any bill allowing shared ownership of dairy animals is a step forward. - There are only two licensed raw milk dairies in the state of Utah so the supply of legal milk is limited.
- While consuming raw dairy products is legal throughout the U.S., many in Utah do not have access to exercise their right except via herdshares.
- Access to raw dairy is a matter of consumer choice, not a public health issue.
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Contact Info for House Committee Use the online petition to email all members of the Utah House Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Committee then follow up with phone calls as time permits (see list below). Some Utah legislators have cell phones and texting them would be highly effective. Please be courteous in all communications. To contact your own state representative, look for your county in the list (House Roster) or enter your address (Who Represents Me). Lee B. Perry (R) Home Phone: 435-720-7838 Cell Phone: 435-225-0430 Douglas V. Sagers (R) Home Phone: 435-882-0931 Cell Phone: 435-830-3485 Work Phone: 435-843-3754 Joel K. Briscoe (D) Home Phone: 801-583-2281 Cell Phone: 801-946-9791 Melvin R. Brown (R) Home Phone: 435-336-3309 Cell Phone: 435-647-6512 Jack R. Draxler (R) Home Phone: 435-752-1488 Susan Duckworth (D) Home Phone: 801-250-0728 Stephen G. Handy (R) Cell Phone: 801-979-8711 Timothy D. Hawkes (R) Home Phone: 801-294-4494 Mike K. McKell (R) Cell Phone: 801-210-1495 Work Phone: 801-798-9000 Michael E. Noel (R) Work Phone: 435-644-3996 Kraig Powell (R) Work Phone: 435-654-0501 Scott D. Sandall (R) Cell Phone: 435-279-7551 Mike Schultz (R) Cell Phone: 801-859-7713 Scott Chew (R)
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