Bill Text: CA AB1042 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Pesticide treated seed: labeling.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-09-22 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 348, Statutes of 2024. [AB1042 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB1042-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  July 03, 2024

Amended  IN  Senate  June 19, 2024

Amended  IN  Senate  June 10, 2024

Amended  IN  Senate  June 15, 2023

Amended  IN  Assembly  March 16, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1042

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Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Kalra)

February 15, 2023

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An act to amend Section 52484 of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to agriculture.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1042, as amended, Bauer-Kahan. Treated Pesticide treated seed: labeling.

Existing law, the California Seed Law, regulates seed sold in California. The California Seed Law prohibits any person from shipping, delivering, transporting, or selling agricultural or vegetable seed that is treated after harvest with any substance that is likely to be poisonous or toxic to human beings or animals unless it is labeled with specified information, including the chemical or generic name of the treatment material, as provided. The California Seed Law requires, when more than one substance is applied to the agricultural or vegetable seed, the seed to be labeled for the substance with the higher level of toxicity and each substance applied to the seed to be noted on the label.

This bill would would, beginning January 1, 2027, additionally require the label for certain pesticide treated seeds to include the numerical amount of treatment material applied per seed. The bill would require the agricultural or vegetable seed to be labeled for each substance applied. specified information, including the pesticide’s registration number from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, if applicable, and the application rate by weight of seed.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 52484 of the Food and Agricultural Code is amended to read:

52484.

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 52486, it is unlawful for any person to ship, deliver, transport, or sell agricultural or vegetable seed that is treated after harvest with any substance that is likely to be poisonous or toxic to human beings or animals unless there is conspicuously shown on the analysis tag or label, on a separate tag or label attached to each container, or on each container all of the following information:

(1) “TREATED SEED” and the signal word for the category of treatment material, all in capital letters.

(2) The chemical or generic name of the treatment material.

(3)The numerical amount of treatment material applied per seed.

(4)

(3) An appropriately worded statement as to the hazards to humans and animals.

(5)

(4) An appropriately worded statement of practical treatment, if present.

(b) This information shall be derived from the technical chemical label of each substance applied to the seed.

(c) When more than one substance is applied, each substance shall be noted on the label and the seed shall be labeled for each substance applied. with the signal word for the substance with the highest level of toxicity.

(d) (1) For pesticide treated seeds, the label shall include, for each pesticide, all of the following information:

(A) The registration number from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, if applicable.

(B) The registration number from the Department of Pesticide Regulation, if available.

(C) The application rate by weight of seed.

(2) This subdivision shall become effective January 1, 2027.

(3) This subdivision shall only apply to seeds shipped, delivered, transported, or sold within the state.