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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 360

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Relating to: ban on the use of certain insecticides by the Department of Natural Resources.

Bees Natural resources department of — Environmental protection Pests Public land

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill prohibits, with limited exceptions, the Department of Natural

Resources from using any insecticide from the neonicotinoid class on land

maintained by DNR. Under the bill, this prohibition does not apply to uses of this

insecticide that are 1) pursuant to existing cooperative farming agreements or

contracts or 2) for forest insect control on forested lands, state forest nurseries, or

seed orchards or in designated zones of infestation.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Andraca (D) , Baldeh (D) , Behnke (R) , C. Anderson (D) , Cabrera (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Emerson (D) , Haywood (D) , Hong (D) , J. Anderson (D) , Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Shankland (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Vining (D)

8 cosponsors

Agard (D) , Billings (D) , Carpenter (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Larson (D) , Pfaff (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D)

Full history

  1. Jul 27, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Snodgrass, Considine, C. Anderson, J. Anderson, Andraca, Baldeh, Behnke, Cabrera, Conley, Emerson, Haywood, Hong, Jacobson, Joers, Moore Omokunde, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Shankland, Shelton, Sinicki, Stubbs, Subeck, Vining and Madison; cosponsored by Senators Pfaff, Agard, Carpenter, Hesselbein, Larson, Roys and Spreitzer

  2. Jul 27, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture

  3. Oct 2, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Billings added as a coauthor

  4. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1