General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 67
January Session, 2021 LCO No. 226
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
SEN. KASSER, 36th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING PESTICIDE REGULATION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
1 That the general statutes be amended to require the Department of
2 Energy and Environmental Protection to restrict the use of pesticides on
3 private and public properties to those substances deemed non-
4 carcinogenic by the World Health Organization's International Agency
5 for Research on Cancer, enable municipalities to restrict the use of
6 pesticides on such properties and require said department to establish a
7 publicly available electronic database for the registration of pesticide
8 use in the state .
Statement of Purpose:
To eliminate the use of toxic pesticides that affect the environment and
human health.
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