Skip to content

Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 360

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

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 Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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: Agard (D) , Carpenter (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Larson (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Taylor (D)

27 cosponsors

Andraca (D) , Baldeh (D) , Bare (D) , Behnke (R) , Billings (D) , 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) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Vining (D)

Full history

  1. Jul 13, 2023 · Senate

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

  2. Jul 13, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Labor, Regulatory Reform, Veterans and Military Affairs

  3. Jul 18, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Madison added as a cosponsor

  4. Apr 15, 2024 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1