An Act To
Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 1648
Committee Amendment CA_A_S342 (Senate)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 605, L.D. 1648, Bill, "An Act To 
Amend the Law Recognizing Local Control Regarding Food Systems and Require 
Compliance with Federal and State Food Safety Regulations" 
Amend the bill in section 1 in §282 by striking out all of subsections 1 and 2 (page 1, 
lines 33 to 35 and page 2, lines 1 to 5 in L.D.) and inserting the following: 
11. 
Direct producer-to-consumer transaction. 
11Direct producer-to-consumer 
transaction
means a face-to-face transaction involving food or food products at the site 
of production of those food or food products. 
2. Food or food products. 
11Food or food products
means food or food products 
intended for human consumption, including, but not limited to, milk or milk products, 
meat or meat products, poultry or poultry products, fish or fish products, seafood or 
seafood products, cider or juice, acidified foods or canned fruits or vegetables. 
3. State food law. 
11State food law
means any provision of this Title or Title 22 that 
regulates direct producer-to-consumer transactions.' 
Amend the bill in section 1 by striking out all of §284 (page 2, lines 23 to 30 in L.D.) 
and inserting the following: 
1§284. Home rule authority 
Pursuant to the home rule authority granted to municipalities by Title 30-A. section 
3001 and by the Constitution of Maine, Article VIII, Part Second, and notwithstanding 
any provision of state food law to the contrary, except as contained in section 285, a 
municipality may adopt ordinances regarding direct producer-to-consumer transactions 
and the State shall recognize such ordinances by not enforcing those state food laws with 
respect to those direct producer-to-consumer transactions that are governed by the 
ordinance.
Amend the bill in section 1 in §285 in the first 2 lines (page 2, lines 32 and 33 in 
L.D.) by striking out the following: 
11In every political subdivision of the State, including 
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a municipality that adopts or amends an ordinance pursuant to section 284" and inserting 
the following: 'Notwithstanding any provision in this chapter to the contrary' 
Amend the bill in section 1 by striking out all of §286 (page 3, lines 1 to 7 in L.D.) 
and inserting the following: 
1§286. Compliance with food safety regulations 
An individual who grows, produces, processes or prepares food or food products for 
purposes other than direct producer-to-consumer transactions in a municipality that 
adopts or amends an ordinance pursuant to section 284 shall grow, produce, process or 
prepare the food or food products in compliance with all applicable state and federal food 
safety laws, rules and regulations.' 
Amend the bill by inserting after section 5 the following: 
'Sec. 6. 
Authority to report a bill. 
The Joint Standing Committee on 
Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry may report out a bill relating to the Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 7, chapter 8-F to the Second Regular Session of the 128th 
Legislature.' 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment does the following: 
1. It clarifies the scope of the bill to ensure that local food ordinances must relate to 
direct producer-to-consumer transactions involving food or food products intended for 
human consumption. 
It also provides definitions of "direct producer-to-consumer 
transaction" and "food or food products"; 
2. It clarifies that the state laws in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 7 and Title 22 
that regulate direct producer-to-consumer transactions involving food or food products 
are the state laws whose application such local ordinances may affect; and 
3. It makes other clarifying amendments to the bill and adds a provision authorizing 
the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to report out a 
bill to the Second Regular Session of the 128th Legislature relating to the food 
sovereignty law. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: I 0/20/17 feac 
LD 1648 
LR 2419(02) 
An Act To Amend the Law Recognizing Local Control Regarding Food Systems and Require 
Compliance with Federal and State Food Safety Regulations 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment '1,;' ( S - 3~ ~) 
Committee: Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Clarifying language avoids federal action 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
This bill provides clarifying language that will help the State avoid any potential fiscal impacts, resulting from 
current law, of federal termination of the State's implementation of the meat and poultry inspection program and 
transference of such inspection to the USDA-Food Safety and Inspection Service. 
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