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Article: Senate delays vote on cheese exchange bill Agriculture officials say shift would cost $411,000
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 29, 1997
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The state Senate delayed a vote Tuesday on a bill that would set
up the first state monitoring and regulation of the National Cheese
Exchange after state agriculture officials estimated that the bill
would cost $411,000.
But a final Senate vote will come Thursday, if the measure can be
formally approved by the Legislature's budget committee before then,
said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Chvala (D-Madison).
In 1996, the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer
Protection estimated that the same new regulations on the cheese
exchange in Green Bay would cost only $2,700, Chvala and other angry
senators said.
The increase in the estimate of what the bill would cost delayed
the vote ...