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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
July 26, 2021 - Introduced by Representatives Snodgrass, Considine, Anderson,
Andraca, Baldeh, Behnke, Billings, Cabrera, Conley, Hebl, Hong,
Neubauer, Ohnstad, Pope, Shelton, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Subeck and
Vining, cosponsored by Senators Agard, Smith, Carpenter, Larson, Roys,
L.
Taylor and Wirch. Referred to Committee on Agriculture.
AB473,1,2
1An Act to create 94.51 of the statutes;
relating to: labeling plants as beneficial
2to pollinators.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill prohibits a person who sells plants at retail or provides plants from
labeling or advertising the plant as being beneficial to pollinators if the plant has
been treated with and contains a certain concentration of insecticides that contain
warnings about pollinator hazards on their labels.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
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3Section
1. 94.51 of the statutes is created to read:
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494.51 Pollinator labeling.
(1) In this section:
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(a) “Plant” means an annual plant, bedding plant, or other plant and includes
6plant material and nursery stock, as defined under s. 94.10 (1) (f).
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(b) “Pollinator” means an insect that pollinates flowers.
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1(c) “Systemic insecticide” means an insecticide that is absorbed by a plant and
2moves through the plant's vascular system.
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3(2) No person that sells a plant at retail or provides a plant to an end user may
4label or advertise the plant as being beneficial to pollinators if all of the following
5apply:
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(a) The plant has been treated with a systemic insecticide that has a pollinator
7protection box on its label or that has a pollinator, bee, or honeybee precautionary
8statement in the environmental hazards section of its label.
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(b) The plant has in its flowers a concentration of the insecticide described
10under par. (a) that is greater than the no observed adverse effect level as established
11by the federal Environmental Protection Agency for acute oral toxicity for adult
12honeybees.
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13Section
2.
Effective date.
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(1)
This act takes effect on the first day of the 7th month beginning after
15publication.
