Bill Text: CA AB1042 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Pesticides: seeds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2023-06-30 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB1042 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB1042-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1042

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Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan

February 15, 2023

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An act to add and repeal Section 11502.6 of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to pesticides.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1042, as introduced, Bauer-Kahan. Department of Pesticide Regulation: Sustainable Pest Management Workgroup.

Existing law, added by the Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1991, creates the Department of Pesticide Regulation and authorizes the Director of Pesticide Regulation, among other things, to adopt regulations for the issuance and renewal of licenses and certificates for pest control operations.

This bill would require the department, by July 1, 2024, to establish a Sustainable Pest Management Workgroup that would identify pathways to minimize the use of toxic pesticides and expand the use of integrated pest management practices, among other things. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2026.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 11502.6 is added to the Food and Agricultural Code, to read:

11502.6.

 (a) To protect the environment and public health from the harmful effects of pesticides, and to accelerate the systemwide adoption of safer and sustainable pest control practices, the Department of Pesticide Regulation shall establish a Sustainable Pest Management Workgroup by July 1, 2024. The department may augment an existing task force or workgroup to accomplish the requirements of this section.

(b) The functions and duties of the workgroup shall include all of the following:

(1) Identify pathways to minimize the use of toxic pesticides and expand the use of integrated pest management practices.

(2) Better protect public and environmental health.

(3) Engage, educate, and promote collaboration to achieve the goals of paragraphs (1) and (2).

(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2026, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2026, deletes or extends that date.