A group of senators has introduced legislation to combat California’s Proposition 12, the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act.
“The last thing we need is a big state like California imposing its will on ag-heavy states like Kansas with regulations that will also restrict our ability to trade among the states,” said Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), a sponsor of the act. “If California wants to regulate agriculture in its own state, that’s fine, but California’s rules should not apply to Kansas, whose legislatures never approved of these regulations.”
The bill would prohibit the government of a state from imposing standards on agricultural products sold in interstate commerce.
The bill is cosponsored by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Cornyn (R-TX), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Eric Schmidt (R-MO), Tedd Budd (R-NC) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN).
