2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
LRB-3183/1
MCP:cjs
May 30, 2025 - Introduced by Senators Smith, Habush Sinykin, Carpenter, Drake, Hesselbein, Larson, Ratcliff, Roys, Spreitzer, Wall, Wirch and Dassler-Alfheim, cosponsored by Representatives Snodgrass, Behnke, DeSanto, Miresse, Anderson, Arney, Bare, Billings, Clancy, Cruz, DeSmidt, Doyle, Fitzgerald, Joers, Johnson, Madison, Mayadev, Moore Omokunde, Palmeri, Phelps, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Sheehan, Sinicki, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio, Vining, Andraca, J. Jacobson and Udell. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs.
SB294,1,2
1An Act to create 94.51 of the statutes; relating to: labeling plants as
2beneficial to pollinators. Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill prohibits a person that provides plants or that sells plants at retail from labeling or advertising the plant as being beneficial to pollinators if the plant has been treated with an insecticide that contains warnings about pollinator hazards on its label.
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:
SB294,13Section 1. 94.51 of the statutes is created to read: SB294,1,4494.51 Pollinator labeling. (1) In this section: SB294,1,65(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). SB294,2,1
1(b) “Pollinator” means an insect that pollinates flowers. SB294,2,32(c) “Systemic insecticide” means an insecticide that is absorbed by a plant and 3moves through the plant’s vascular system. SB294,2,84(2) No person that sells a plant at retail or provides a plant to an end user may 5label or advertise the plant as being beneficial to pollinators if the plant has been 6treated with a systemic insecticide that has a pollinator protection box on its label 7or that has a pollinator, bee, or honeybee precautionary statement in the 8environmental hazards section of its label. SB294,2,1110(1) This act takes effect on the first day of the 7th month beginning after 11publication.
