Relating to pesticides, by providing for tort liability

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 28, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 30, 2025
3. ✓
   Done: Senate committeeFebruary 19, 2025
4. ✓
   Done: Passes the SenateMarch 26, 202526–21
5. ✕
   Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill provides for a defense from civil liability associated with the use of pesticides that are registered with the United States environmental protection agency (EPA) acting under the federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (federal Act). The bill specifies that a label provides sufficient warning if it complies with any one of three criteria: (1) it was approved by the EPA, (2) it is consistent with the most recent human health assessment performed under the federal Act, or (3) it is consistent with the EPA’s carcinogenicity classification for the pesticide.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Changed since by amendment S-3056; see Amendments. Full bill text

Senate subcommittee

Named January 30, 2025 (as SSB 1051). On February 5, 2025 it recommended passage.

• Sen. Mike Bousselot REmail
• Sen. Tony Bisignano DEmail
• Sen. Tom Shipley REmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§668.12

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Family tree

Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.

• SF 2392 Relating to tort liability involving pesticides
  90th General Assembly · Approved by committee · very similar
  Cleared committee
• SF 2412 Relating to pesticides, by providing for tort liability
  90th General Assembly · Passed Senate · similar
  Passed a chamber

Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.