Issues

State Issues

National Issues

PA Farm Bureau (PFB) monitors and evaluates legislation before the PA General Assembly that can be helpful or harmful to agriculture and rural living.  PFB works with lawmakers to achieve outcomes that are consistent with its policies, as determined by Farm Bureau’s grassroots policy development process. 

A summary and status of state legislation introduced for the 2012 term can be accessed through the links immediately below.

Senate (pdf)                          
House (pdf)

Current:

• State Agricultural Appropriations for FY 2013-2014
• Pension Reform
• State Highway Funding
• Fair Dealer Law Amendments
• Preventing Unfair Prosecution of Landowners Who Allow Others to Hunt
• Elimination of Scrap and Salvage Materials Theft

Currently
Being
Updated

Implemented:

• Legislation Exempting Farms from Inheritance and Realty Transfer Tax Liability
• EPA Announces Final Approval for Marketing E15 Fuel
• Commercial Drivers License (CDL)
• Act 38 - Illegal Local Ordinances
• Protection of Agricultural Biosecurity Areas
• Equine ACT 93 of 2005 (pdf)
• State Farm Exemption from Federal Commercial Trucking Standards