- House Committee Substitute -

HCS/SS/SCS/SBs 837, 866, 972 & 990 - This act allows the Missouri Qualified Fuel Ethanol Producer Incentive Fund to be administered on a fiscal year. If ethanol producers fail to receive all grants earned during the 60 consecutive month period of qualification due to lack of appropriations, they shall receive the full amount from the fund for which they were eligible. Producers shall continue to be eligible for up to 24 additional months or until they have received the maximum amount of funding that they were eligible for during the original 60-month period.

This act allows available tax credits to include the newly defined "eligible new generation processing entities".

The act also makes it a Class A misdemeanor to knowingly release swine to live in a wild state, public or unfenced private land. Hogs not conspicuously identified by ear tags may be killed without liability on public lands or on private lands with the permission of the landowner.

This act creates the "Pesticide Project Fund". The annual pesticide registration fee of fifty dollars shall be deposited in the fund. Twenty percent of the fund shall be used for administration of the Pesticide Project Fund and the Pesticide Registration Program and eighty percent shall be distributed for the purposes of pesticide education efforts, training, monitoring and other pesticide related issues. This fund shall be administered by the Plant Industries Division within the Department of Agriculture.

This act charges wine producers six cents per gallon on the sale of wine. The moneys collected are to be credited to the Marketing Development Fund for the use of the division of the Department of Agriculture concerned with the research and advisement of grapes and grape products in Missouri. The act also increases the pro rata charge per ton of grapes or 160 gallons of grape juice processed by commercial producers in the state from $3 to $6.

This act creates the "Missouri Qualified Biodiesel Producer Incentive Fund", which provides incentives for qualified biodiesel producers.

This act repeals the law relating to the repurchase of industrial, maintenance, and construction power equipment and outdoor power equipment used for lawn, garden, golf course, landscaping, or grounds maintenance upon cancellation of contracts. The act replaces the term "farm implements" in the definition of inventory with the terms "equipment" and "implements" in the law relating to the repurchase of farm machinery inventory on the termination of a dealership. This act requires wholesalers, manufacturers, or distributors to repurchase equipment, implements, machinery, and attachments at 100% of the net cost and to repurchase repair parts at 95% of the current net price at the termination of a contract, with some exceptions.

This act revises current weights and measures law. This act repeals certain interest and penalty provisions for unpaid receivables and replaces them with an administrative hearing.

This act removes the requirement of sellers of motor fuel to notify buyers of the type of oxygenate.

This act bans MTBE from being sold or stored in the state after July 31, 2005.

This act exempts grain elevators and feed mills from elevator lift inspection.

SARAH MORROW