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Prohibiting the pesticide dicamba, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 21, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 27, 2020
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill amends Code chapter 206 regulating certain pesticides, by prohibiting a person from offering for sale, selling, purchasing, applying, or using the herbicide dicamba, which is used to kill broad-leafed weeds. The prohibition is effective January 1, 2021. The Code chapter currently prohibits chlordane (Code section 206.32) and daminozide (Code section 206.33). A person violating the bill’s prohibition is guilty of a serious misdemeanor (Code section 206.22). A serious misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than one year and a fine of at least $315 but not more than $1,875.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 27, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part