Bill Text: CA AB1963 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Pesticides: paraquat dichloride.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Enrolled) 2024-08-29 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 51. Noes 16.). [AB1963 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1963-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 02, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Friedman |
January 29, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law requires the Department of Pesticide Regulation to prepare and submit quarterly reports due 60 days after the end of each quarter to specified Senate and Assembly committees and the Office of the Surgeon General that provide information, as prescribed, regarding granular chlorpyrifos use, monitoring, and exposure during the quarter.
This bill would require the department to post the quarterly reports to its internet website.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 3.7 (commencing with Section 105245) is added to Part 5 of Division 103 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:CHAPTER 3.7. Paraquat
105245.
For purposes of this chapter, “pesticide” has the same meaning specified in Section 12753 of the Food and Agricultural Code.105246.
Commencing January 1, 2026, it is unlawful for a person to use a pesticide that contains, or for a person or entity to manufacture, sell, deliver, hold, or offer for sale in commerce any product that contains, the active ingredient paraquat dichloride in the state.SEC. 2.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.(a)Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, beginning with the first quarter of 2021, the Department of Pesticide Regulation shall prepare and submit quarterly reports, due 60 days after the end of each quarter, to the Senate Committee on Health, the Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement, the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality, the Assembly Committee on Health, the Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment, the Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials, and the Office of the Surgeon General that provide all of the following information:
(1)The amount of chlorpyrifos in granular form used in the quarter, reported in pounds and by location of use.
(2)Potential reasons for any increase or decrease in the use of chlorpyrifos in granular form in the quarter as compared to the same quarter of the previous year.
(3)A description of how the Department of Pesticide Regulation monitors exposure to the use of chlorpyrifos in granular form with a particular emphasis on dermal and inhalation exposure, and any information relating to that exposure during the quarter.
(b)The department shall post the quarterly reports on its internet website to allow public access to the information.