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q LEGISLATIVE COHMTTTSS REPORT (Presented At Zr.ecutive Committee Meet ing 4/26/49) V.innssota Hou.se Bills 669 and 13S4 providing for formula labeling, licensing sad registration of paint, water paint, enamel, lacquer and varr'sh, Registration fee, $5 for each product .hut not to emceed $25 annually, H3 1334,a substitute for the earlier hill, defeated in Committee, This leaves the old foimula labeling*unchanged. It applies only to paint. Mcntr-na Senate Bill SS providing for formula labeling of paint and va fcated in Committee, sh. Bo- Morth Dakota Souse Bill 16 providing for licensing and examination of painting con tractors and journeymen, and r egi strati on of apprentices by Commission of 5 ap pointees, one of whoa would be nominated by master painters and 2 by journeymen,. Annual license fees. .Surety bonds of $1,000 required of contractors to protect public against fraud and inconpetency. Sill indefinitely postponed in Committee, Legislature adjourned. Maryland House Bill 102 requiring toys, playthings and children's furniture to be labeled if the finish contains lead or other substances of a poisonous nature, Passed, Connecticut Senate Bill 6o4 provides for registration and licensing of painting contractors, "0 examination. Senate Committee reported unfavorably, Killed* Arizona Senate Bill 63 proposed to license and examine contractors and subcontractors and to revoke licenses. Reported favorably, but no action taken before adjournment. 7th - Three Mils to license contractors and subcontractors and to require bonds, *11 died in committee or adversely reported before adjournment, (S, So, 111 & 145) Oregon House Bill 182 provides for licensing of general contractors and subcon tractors, Mould deny unlicensed contractors benefits of Mechanics1 Lien Law, Still pending. Florida House Bill 331 to impose tax of 50^ por ton on any titanium bearing ore mined,. Trade-Mark Legislation requiring state registration-to secure protection, introduced in Indio.ua, 'Washington, Hew Mezico, Ohio, Maryland and ITew Hampshire, Doubtful con: t i tat i onality. Opposed vigorously by Trade-Mark Association with various in;;--tries including ours supporting the opposition. Three of these 6 bills killed or withdrav/n, Cne unlikely to be reported out, Maryland legislature adjourned. Ho action reported from Hew Hampshire, Tvng nuts and.oil`are the subjects of several bills before Congress, H,R, 29 by Colmar and HR. 34l by Gathings would provide parity for tung nuts. The bills are identical, A hearing before a subcommittee of Committee on Agriculture will be held May 9* Senate Bill, 1644 introduced by Senators Pepper and Holland, & com- pn-Mon to the Coiner - Gathings bills is before Committee of Agriculture and Hcrastry, NCA 0 03152 N 3917 (Legislative Committee Heport) -2- E. 30 by Coiner would inpose a duty of 5 cents on tung oil, now on the free list, Before Connittee on Ways and Means# S. 15S4 introduced by Senators Gillette and Wherry is to provide aid in stabilising agriculture prices by an equalizing fee on inported fat^s and oils, and an offset on e:ports of fats and oils# Whenever the average wholesale price of the principal domestic fats and oils is less than the average parity price, there would be collected in addition to any other duties and taxes when imported, the difference between such average wholesale price and average parity price, but not exceeding 10 per pound# Before Senate Committee on Finance# Belated, generally, to regulations affe ting the labeling of paint is a report to be made at the Annual Meeting of the rational Fire Protection Association as follows: "Luring the year only a few comments and criticisms of the Recommended Standard for Labeling of Containers of Flammable Mixtures have been received, (See Advance Reports 13^8, page 67; Proceedings 1348, page 118) It is the recommendation of the Committee that the tentative status of this standard be continued for another year*" M. Q. H# NCA 0 031 53