Perhaps no other organization in the country is better positioned to know the best time for drawing a new map of current state raw milk laws and policies than the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).

The bipartisan group, based in Denver, closely tracks state and territorial legislative sessions, and it has chosen this moment as they are adjourning to report on what it simply calls “State Milk Laws.” The 2015 legislative season is over in most Midwestern, Western, and border states, and others are rapidly reaching their adjournment dates.

This was a busy state legislative season for raw milk. Doug Farquhar, the lawyer who follows raw milk action at the state legislative level for NCSL, says there were at least 29 raw milk bills in 19 states this time, and eight of those sought to make retail sales legal.

Raw milk bills in 2015 either have not gotten that far, or don’t really do that much. One that did get to the governor’s desk was West Virginia Senate Bill 30, but Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin vetoed it April 2 because he said it “would pose a serious risk to public health.”

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert did sign House Bill 104 into law, allowing access to raw milk through ownership of so-called cow shares. Meanwhile, South Dakota Gov. Dennis M. Daugaard signed Senate Bill 45 prohibiting raw milk sales at farmer’s markets or farm-owned stores. Raw milk sales on SD dairy farms remain legal.

Oregon adopted