Permitting federal pesticide warning or labeling requirements to satisfy any state pesticide warning or labeling requirements.

Plain English Breakdown

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Allowing Federal Pesticide Labels to Meet State Requirements

This bill allows federal pesticide labels to meet state requirements for warnings and labeling if they follow the most recent health assessments or carcinogenicity classifications by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

What This Bill Does

• Allows a pesticide label that follows federal guidelines to also meet state warning and labeling rules.
• Requires the label to be consistent with the latest human health assessment from federal law.
• Permits the label to match the EPA's classification for cancer risk of the pesticide.

Who It Names or Affects

• Pesticide manufacturers who must follow both federal and state regulations.
• State agencies responsible for enforcing pesticide labeling rules.

Terms To Know

pesticide

A chemical used to control pests like insects, weeds, or fungi that can harm crops or livestock.

labeling requirements

Rules about what information must be on a product's label, such as warnings and instructions for use.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not cover claims or causes of action unrelated to warning labels.
• It is unclear how this will affect existing state laws that have stricter labeling requirements than federal ones.

Official Summary Text

Permitting federal pesticide warning or labeling requirements to satisfy any state pesticide warning or labeling requirements.

Current Bill Text

As Amended by House Committee
Session of 2026
HOUSE BILL No. 2476
By Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
Requested by Representative Rahjes
1-20
AN ACT concerning agriculture; relating to pesticides; permitting federal
pesticide warning or labeling requirements to satisfy any state pesticide
warning or labeling requirements.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary and in
accordance with the uniformity requirements of 7 U.S.C. § 136v, any
pesticide that is registered pursuant to K.S.A. 2-2204, and amendments
thereto, or 7 U.S.C. § 136 et seq. and displays a label that meets one of the
following requirements shall be deemed to satisfy any requirement for
warning or labeling regarding health or safety under article 22 of chapter 2
of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, and any other
statutory or common law concerning the duty to warn or label:
(1) The label is consistent with the most recent human health
assessment performed under 7 U.S.C. § 136 et seq.; or
(2) the label is consistent with the United States environmental
protection agency carcinogenicity classification for the pesticide under 7
U.S.C. § 136 et seq.
(b) Nothing in this section shall preclude claims or causes of
action that are unrelated to product warnings or labeling.
(c) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the agricultural
chemical act of 1947, K.S.A. 2-2201 et seq., and amendments thereto.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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