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Agriculture Committee, Kentucky General Assembly

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The Agriculture Committee is an interim joint committee of the Kentucky General Assembly that no longer fell within Ballotpedia's coverage scope as of March 8, 2021.

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Function

In 2014, the Kentucky State Legislature described the function of this committee as outlined below.

The Agriculture Committee studies "matters pertaining to crop, livestock, poultry and their marketing, disease control and warehousing; tobacco; stockyards; agricultural cooperatives and marketing associations; agriculture weights and measures; veterinarians."[1][2]

Membership

2015 legislative session

The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2015 legislative session.

Agriculture Members, 2015
Democratic members (18)Republican members (21)
Thomas McKee, Co-ChairPaul Hornback, Co-Chair
Johnny BellC. Embry, Jr.
Will CourseyCarroll Gibson
Mitchel Denham, Jr.Chris Girdler
Dennis ParrettDavid Givens
James Glenn, Jr.Stan Humphries
Martha KingWhitney Westerfield
Terry MillsKim King
Sannie OverlyMichael Meredith
Thomas RinerLynn Bechler
Rita SmartDavid Osborne
Dorsey RidleyRyan Quarles
Robin WebbSteven Rudy
Derrick GrahamDavid Givens
James KayMyron Dossett
Dean SchamoreDavid Hale
John ShortThomas Turner
Wilson StoneRichard Heath
Damon Thayer
Suzanne Miles
James Tipton

2011-2012

The following table describes committee membership for the 2011 legislative session.

2009-2010

The following table describes committee membership for the 2009 legislative session.

External links

Footnotes

  1. Kentucky State Legislature, "Agriculture Committee," accessed January 31, 2014
  2. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.