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2021 ASSEMBLY BILL 472
July 26, 2021 - Introduced by Representatives SNODGRASS, CONSIDINE, ANDERSON,
ANDRACA, BALDEH, BEHNKE, BILLINGS, CABRERA, CONLEY, HEBL, HESSELBEIN,
HONG, NEUBAUER, OHNSTAD, POPE, SHANKLAND, SHELTON, SINICKI, SPREITZER,
STUBBS and VINING, cosponsored by Senators AGARD, SMITH, CARPENTER,
LARSON, ROYS, L. TAYLOR and WIRCH. Referred to Committee on Agriculture.
1 AN ACT to create 29.601 (4m) of the statutes; relating to: ban on the use of
2 certain insecticides by the Department of Natural Resources.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill prohibits, with limited exceptions, the Department of Natural
Resources from using any insecticide from the neonicotinoid class within a one-mile
radius of any pollinator habitat located 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.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
3 SECTION 1. 29.601 (4m) of the statutes is created to read:
4 29.601 (4m) USE OF INSECTICIDES. (a) The department may not use any
5 insecticide from the neonicotinoid class within a one-mile radius of any pollinator
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ASSEMBLY BILL 472 SECTION 1
1 habitat located on land that is acquired and maintained by the department as
2 provided under s. 23.09 (2) (d).
3 (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to insecticides from the neonicotinoid class
4 that are used pursuant to a cooperative farming agreement or contract that the
5 department has entered into prior to the effective date of this subsection .... [LRB
6 inserts date].
7 (c) Paragraph (a) does not apply to insecticides from the neonicotinoid class
8 that are used for forest insect control on forested lands, state forest nurseries, or seed
9 orchards or in designated zones of infestation as provided under s. 26.30 (7) (a).
10 (END)