HB0285 • 2025

Pesticide warning labels.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; providing standards for a pesticide manufacturer's or seller's duty to warn consumers or the public about pesticide risks as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor: Representative Strock
Last action: 2025-03-03
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The candidate explanation is accurate based on the provided official source material. However, it includes terms like 'Peer-reviewed' which were not mentioned in the official text.

Pesticide Warning Labels Act

The bill sets standards for pesticide manufacturers and sellers to warn consumers about the risks of pesticides.

What This Bill Does

Creates a new rule that requires pesticide makers or sellers to warn people about the dangers of using their products.
States that if a pesticide has a label approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it is assumed that the warning is correct and complete.
Allows this assumption to be challenged only with strong scientific evidence showing the EPA-approved warnings are incorrect or incomplete.

Who It Names or Affects

Pesticide manufacturers
Sellers of pesticides
Consumers who use pesticides

Terms To Know

EPA: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which sets rules for environmental safety.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass, so the new rules are not currently active.
It does not specify what happens if someone successfully challenges an EPA-approved warning label.

Bill History

2025-03-03 House
H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4
2025-02-07 House
H No report prior to CoW Cutoff
2025-01-28 House
H Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture
2025-01-27 House
H Received for Introduction
2025-01-25 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0762
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0762
Introduced
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0285

Pesticide warning labels.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Strock and Campbell, K and Senator(s) Boner

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; providing standards for a pesticide manufacturer's or seller's duty to warn consumers or the public about pesticide risks as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 35
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360(c) and by creating a new subsection (e) is amended to read:

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Liability for damage; warning labels; service of process.

(c)

Except as provided by subsection (e) of this section, n
othing in this act shall be construed to relieve any person from liability for any damage to the person or lands of another caused by the use of pesticides even though such use conforms to the rules and regulations of this act.

(e)

The duty of a manufacturer or seller of a pesticide to warn a consumer or the public about the risks associated with the pesticide shall be presumed to be satisfied if the pesticide bears the label approved by the United States environmental protection agency under the Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. § 136 et seq., and the pesticide is registered by the department. This presumption may be rebutted only by a showing that the weight of scientific evidence does not support the scientific basis on which the required warning is premised and that the manufacturer or seller knew or should have known at the time the pesticide was sold that the required warning was not supported by the

weight of scientific evidence. At a minimum, evidence to rebut the presumption shall be academically peer reviewed, published in a recognized academic journal, capable of replication and reflected by a reliable application of scientific principles and methods to the risks associated with the use of the product.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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