AN ACT relating to food and drugs; increasing the pesticide registration fee; specifying distribution and use of the fee; providing for a continuous appropriation; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
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Enacted
This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.
Sponsor
Agriculture
Last action
2020-03-05
Official status
enrolled
Effective date
7/1/2020
Plain English Breakdown
The official summary and text confirm all details provided in the candidate explanation, but leave some aspects unspecified such as the use of the remaining $5 from each fee and potential exemptions.
Increase Pesticide Registration Fee
This law increases the annual fee for registering pesticides from $90 to $140 and specifies how the money is used.
What This Bill Does
Increases the pesticide registration fee from $90 to $140 per product.
Deposits $125 of each new fee into a special natural resource account for the Department of Agriculture.
Continuously appropriates funds in the special natural resource account for the pesticide registration program.
Requires that $15 of each new fee goes to the pesticide education account for certification programs.
Who It Names or Affects
Companies and individuals who register pesticides with the state Department of Agriculture.
Terms To Know
Pesticide registration
The process where companies or individuals pay a fee to get permission from the government to sell their pesticide products in the state.
Special natural resource account
A fund set up by the state for specific uses related to natural resources, including funding for pesticide registration programs.
Limits and Unknowns
The bill does not specify how the remaining $5 of each fee is used.
It is unclear if there are any exemptions or special cases where the new fees do not apply.
Amendments
These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.
Plain English: The amendment increases the pesticide registration fee from $120 to $140 for one type of registration, and changes another fee from $105 to $125.
Increases the pesticide registration fee from $120 to $140 for a specific type of registration.
Changes another fee from $105 to $125.
The amendment does not specify which types of registrations these fees apply to, so it's unclear exactly how many pesticide registrants will be affected by the changes.
Standing Committee • House Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water
Adopted
Plain English: The amendment modifies the bill by specifying how funds from a special natural resource account will be continuously allocated to cover pesticide registration fees.
Adds 'and use' after 'distribution' in the first line of the bill.
Inserts a period and removes remaining text on line 8 of page 2.
Strikes out '11-5-303.' and inserts new language specifying continuous appropriation for pesticide registration fees.
The exact impact of the changes to lines 8 and 9 is not fully explained in plain terms by the amendment text provided.
Bill History
2020-03-05LSO
Assigned Chapter Number 3
2020-03-05Governor
Governor Signed HEA No. 0010
2020-03-04Senate
S President Signed HEA No. 0010
2020-03-04House
H Speaker Signed HEA No. 0010
2020-03-03LSO
Assigned Number HEA No. 0010
2020-03-03Senate
S 3rd Reading:Passed 26-4-0-0-0
2020-03-02Senate
S 2nd Reading:Passed
2020-02-28Senate
S COW:Passed
2020-02-27Senate
S Placed on General File
2020-02-27Senate
S02 - Appropriations:Recommend Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0
2020-02-26House
H05 - Agriculture:Rerefer to S02 - Appropriations
2020-02-26Senate
S05 - Agriculture:Recommend Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0
2020-02-24Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S05 - Agriculture
2020-02-18Senate
S Received for Introduction
2020-02-17House
H 3rd Reading:Passed 48-11-1-0-0
2020-02-14House
H 2nd Reading:Passed
2020-02-13House
H COW:Passed
2020-02-12House
H Placed on General File
2020-02-12House
H02 - Appropriations:Recommend Do Pass 7-0-0-0-0
2020-02-11House
H05 - Agriculture:Rerefer to H02 - Appropriations
2020-02-11House
H05 - Agriculture:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0
2020-02-10House
H Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture 50-9-1-0-0
2020-02-07House
H Received for Introduction
2020-01-07LSO
Bill Number Assigned
Official Summary Text
Bill Summary - 20LSO-0147
Bill No.:
HB0036
Effective:
7/1/2020 12:00:00 AM
LSO No.:
20LSO-0147
Enrolled Act No.:
HEA No. 0010
Chapter No.:
3
Prime Sponsor:
Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee
Catch Title:
Pesticide registration fee.
Subject:
Pesticide registration fee.
Summary/Major Elements:
The act increases the pesticide annual registration fee from ninety dollars ($90.00) to one hundred forty dollars ($140.00) and provides that the increased amount shall be deposited into the special natural resource account.
The act also provides that funds within the special natural resource account are continuously appropriated to the Department of Agriculture to be expended for the pesticide registration fee program.
The above summary is not an official publication of the Wyoming Legislature and is not an official statement of legislative intent. While the Legislative Service Office endeavored to provide accurate information in this summary, it should not be relied upon as a comprehensive abstract of the bill.
Current Bill Text
Read the full stored bill text
20LSO-0147
ORIGINAL House
Bill No
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HB0036
ENROLLED ACT NO. 10,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SIXTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2020 Budget Session
AN ACT relating to food and drugs; increasing the pesticide registration fee; specifying distribution and use of the fee; providing for a continuous appropriation; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1.
W.S. 35
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7
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356(d) is amended to read:
35
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7
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356.
Registration.
(d)
Every registrant of
pesticides
a pesticide
or device shall pay an annual registration fee of
ninety dollars ($90.00) each
one hundred forty dollars ($140.00)
for
every
each
product registered. All registrations shall expire on December 31 of each year, following the date of the registration, and may thereupon be renewed for successive periods of twelve (12) months upon payment of the proper fee.
Seventy
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five dollars ($75.00)
One hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00)
of the fee collected pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited in the special natural resource account in the department of agriculture which is hereby created
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for programs authorized by W.S. 11
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5
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113 and 11
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5
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303.
Funds in the special natural resource account are continuously appropriated to the department and shall only be used to provide funding for the pesticide registration fee program.
Fifteen dollars ($15.00) of the fee collected pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited in the pesticide education account in the department of agriculture which is hereby created. Funds in the pesticide education account are continuously appropriated to the department and shall only be used to provide funding for the pesticide applicator certification program provided by the University of Wyoming.
Section 2.
The increased registration fee under section 1 of this act shall apply to each product registered on or after the effective date of this act.
Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2020
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(END)
Speaker of the House
President of the Senate
Governor
TIME APPROVED: _________
DATE APPROVED: _________
I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.
Chief Clerk
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