2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
LRB-3042/1
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May 30, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives Snodgrass, Behnke, DeSanto, Miresse, Anderson, Andraca, Arney, Bare, Billings, Clancy, Cruz, DeSmidt, Doyle, Fitzgerald, Joers, Johnson, Madison, Mayadev, Moore Omokunde, Palmeri, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Sinicki, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio and Vining, cosponsored by Senators Pfaff, Habush Sinykin, Carpenter, Dassler-Alfheim, Drake, Hesselbein, Keyeski, Larson, Ratcliff, Roys, Smith, Spreitzer, Wall and Wirch. Referred to Committee on Agriculture.
AB289,1,2
1An Act to create 29.601 (4m) of the statutes; relating to: ban on the use of
2certain insecticides by the Department of Natural Resources. Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill prohibits, with limited exceptions, the Department of Natural Resources from using any insecticide from the neonicotinoid class on land maintained by DNR. Under the bill, this prohibition does not apply to uses of this insecticide that are 1) pursuant to existing cooperative farming agreements or contracts or 2) for forest insect control on forested lands, state forest nurseries, or seed orchards or in designated zones of infestation.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
AB289,13Section 1. 29.601 (4m) of the statutes is created to read: AB289,1,6429.601 (4m) Use of insecticides. (a) The department may not use any 5insecticide from the neonicotinoid class on land that is acquired and maintained by 6the department as provided under s. 23.09 (2) (d). AB289,2,4
1(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to insecticides from the neonicotinoid class 2that are used pursuant to a cooperative farming agreement or contract that the 3department entered into prior to the effective date of this subsection .... [LRB 4inserts date]. AB289,2,75(c) Paragraph (a) does not apply to insecticides from the neonicotinoid class 6that are used for forest insect control on forested lands, state forest nurseries, or 7seed orchards or in designated zones of infestation as provided under s. 26.30 (7) (a).
