Legislation to lift restrictions on potato package weights is headed to Gov. Tom Corbett to be signed into law.

The governor expects to sign the bill within 10 days, said spokesman Allen Zieglar.The state senate on Wednesday unanimously approved the bill, sponsored by Sen. David FG. Argall, R-Berks-Carbon-Lehigh-Monroe-Northampton-Schuylkill.The House on Nov. 21 also unanimously approved the measure.The legislation would allow spuds to be sold in packages of any weight. Now, the state requires them to be packed in bags of less than three pounds; three pounds; five pounds; 10, 15, 20, 25, 50 and multiples of 100 pounds.The bill is needed to keep Pennsylvania potato growers competitive with other states, which don't restrict package weights.The state is 18th in the nation for potato production. Its 9,000 acres of potato fields produce 2.2 billion pounds of spuds a year a $37.5 million business, says Joel Rotz of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau.Argall proposed the bill after hearing complaints from Schuylkill County potato grower Sterman Masser, which produces about 280 million pounds of potatoes a year."This is another example of undue government intrusion that only frustrates consumers and taxpayers with another unnecessary bureaucracy," Argall has said.