Please send a message to members of the House Professional Registration and Licensing Committee via this Email Petition and ask them to support HB 866. 

Also, please be courteous as this helps to build good relations with the legislature.
 

To be most effective, please follow up the email petition with a phone call, as time permits. 

The vote is scheduled for Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. on March 17!

WHEN:  12:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 17

WHERE:

House Hearing Room 4

201 W Capitol Ave 

WHAT: Hearing before the House Professional Registration and Licensing Committee

WHY: Having people in the room makes an impact on the legislators!

• House Bill 866 would boost the rural economy.
• It should be a consumer right to choose from whom they buy their food.
• Locally produced food has a good track record for safety, whether it's regulated or not.
• There's transparency and traceability with direct transactions.
• Consumers should have the opportunity to know the producer(s) of their food.
• There is an added sense of responsibility when the farmer knows who is consuming the food produced on the farm.
• The bill would improve food security by encouraging local food production and increasing the self-sufficiency for the community.

Use the online petition to email all members of the Missouri House Professional Registration and Licensing Committee, then follow up with phone calls as time permits (see list below). Please be courteous in all communications as this helps to build relationships with the legislature.

To find and contact your own state representative, type in your zip code in the "Find Your Representative" box on the right.

Eric Burlison, Chair

573-751-0136

[email protected]

Chrissy Sommer, Vice Chair

573-751-1452

[email protected]

Kevin Austin

573-751-0232

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Nathan Beard

573-751-9774

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Jon Carpenter

573-751-4787

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Robert Cornejo

573-751-1484

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Lyndall Fraker

573-751-3819

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Diane Franklin

573-751-1119

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Keith Frederick

573-751-3834

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Shelley Keeney

573-751-5912

[email protected]

Michele Kratky

573-751-4220

[email protected]

Gail McCann Beatty

573-751-2124

[email protected]

Mike Moon, HB 866 Sponsor

573-751-4077

[email protected]

Joshua Peters

573-751-7605

[email protected]

Robert Ross

573-751-1490

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Kathryn Swan

573-751-1443

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Rochelle Walton Gray

573-751-5538

[email protected]

John Wiemann

573-751-2176

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