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Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1.  7 MRSA §2964  is enacted to read:
§ 2964. Donations of fresh milk to food banks
The minimum price provisions of this chapter do not apply to donations of fresh milk produced and processed within the State by a dealer or producer-dealer to an incorporated nonprofit organization within the State established for the purpose of reducing hunger and increasing food security. Donations under this section may occur only if the fresh milk produced and processed within the State to be donated does not have a wholesale or retail market that will provide a higher monetary value to the dealer or producer-dealer.’
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment, which is the majority report, strikes and replaces the bill. The amendment exempts from the Maine Milk Commission's minimum price requirements donations of fresh milk produced and processed within the State by a dealer or producer-dealer to an incorporated nonprofit organization in the State established for the purpose of reducing hunger and increasing food security. The amendment also provides that these donations may occur only if the fresh milk produced and processed within the State to be donated does not have a wholesale or retail market that will provide a higher monetary value to the dealer or producer-dealer.
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