SPONSOR: Sassmann
Beginning January 1, 2025, this bill prohibits the Department of Agriculture from issuing a registration-inspection certificate, and requires suspension of any certificate, if a nursery or nursery dealer knowingly or intentionally imports, exports, buys, sells, transports, distributes, or propagates a plant portion or seeds of a burning bush, callery pear, climbing euonymus, Japanese honeysuckle, or sericea lespedeza. Burning bush and callery pear plants acquired by a licensed nursery before that date will be exempt from enforcement until January 1, 2028.
Statutes affected: