Bill Text: CA AB1788 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Pesticides: use of second generation anticoagulant rodenticides.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 250, Statutes of 2020. [AB1788 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB1788-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
July 30, 2020 |
Amended
IN
Senate
June 24, 2019 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 02, 2019 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 19, 2019 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Bloom (Coauthor: Assembly Member Friedman) (Coauthor: Senator Stern) |
February 22, 2019 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
(1)Existing
(2)Existing law provides that the above-described provisions do not preempt or supersede any federal statute or the authority of any federal agency.
This bill would additionally provide that these provisions do not preempt or supersede special local need or emergency exemptions for the use of pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.
(3)The bill would also prohibit the use of any pesticide that contains one or more specifically identified anticoagulants on state-owned property.
(4)By
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 12978.7 of the Food and Agricultural Code is amended to read:12978.7.
(a)(1)Brodifacoum.
(2)Bromadiolone.
(3)Difenacoum.
(4)Difethialone.
(b)
(c)
(2)
(3)
(d)
(e)This section does not preempt or supersede any federal statute or the authority of any federal agency, including special local need or emergency exemptions for the use of pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 135 et seq.).
(a)Except as provided in subdivision (d), the use of any pesticide that contains one or more of the following anticoagulants is prohibited on any state-owned property in California:
(1)Chlorophacinone.
(2)Diphacinone.
(3)Warfarin.
(b)State agencies are directed to encourage federal agencies to comply with subdivision (a).
(c)This section does not apply to the use of pesticides for agricultural activities,
as defined in Section 564.
(d)This section does not preempt or supersede any federal statute or the authority of any federal agency.