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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
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                     2023 SENATE BILL 360
    July 13, 2023 - 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. Referred to
         Committee on Labor, Regulatory Reform, Veterans and Military Affairs.
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 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.
    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 on land that is acquired and maintained by
6   the department as provided under s. 23.09 (2) (d).
7        (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to insecticides from the neonicotinoid class
8   that are used pursuant to a cooperative farming agreement or contract that the
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    SENATE BILL 360                                                               SECTION 1
1   department entered into prior to the effective date of this subsection .... [LRB inserts
2   date].
3        (c) Paragraph (a) does not apply to insecticides from the neonicotinoid class
4   that are used for forest insect control on forested lands, state forest nurseries, or seed
5   orchards or in designated zones of infestation as provided under s. 26.30 (7) (a).
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