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Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedMarch 14, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeMarch 14, 2024
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 19, 2024
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 2412
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 2412 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 2412 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary People using pesticides that are registered with the EPA would have more protection from being sued if they follow the product's label. A label is considered a sufficient warning if it meets certain federal health or safety standards. These new protections do not apply to products made by state-owned companies from China.1
Read the official explanation
GENERAL. This bill provides for the use of certain pesticides regulated by the United States environmental protection agency (EPA) under the federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (federal Act) and the “Pesticide Act of Iowa” administered by the department of agriculture and land stewardship under Code chapter 206 (state Act). PESTICIDE LABELING. The bill provides for a defense from civil liability associated with the use of pesticides that are registered with the EPA acting under the federal Act. _____ is consistent with the EPA’s carcinogenicity classification for the pesticide. In each case, the label is sufficient to satisfy any requirements for a warning regarding health or safety under the state Act, and any other provision of state law or any other common law duty to warn. However, this provision of the bill does not apply to a product made by a Chinese state-owned enterprise.
Senate subcommittee
Named March 14, 2024. On March 18, 2024 it recommended passage. [].
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96 written public comments to its subcommittee: March 18, 2024 (96) · on the Legislature’s site
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