88th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Tuesday, November 10, 2026
SF 2050: Prohibiting the pesticide dicamba, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions
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 it does
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.
Sponsors
Not listed
Cost
No fiscal note
Senate subcommittee · named January 27, 2020
- Sen. Jerry Behn (R)
- Sen. Claire Celsi (D)
- Sen. Tom Shipley (R) · tom.shipley@legis.iowa.gov
Lobbying · 1 for, 1 against
For: Iowa Chapter of Sierra Club
Against: Bayer U.S. LLC
In plain words
- January 21, 2020Filed in the Senate and sent to the Natural Resources and Environment committee
- January 27, 2020Senate subcommittee named: Behn, Celsi and Shipley
From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Tuesday, November 10, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/88/SF2050