Bill Text: NH HB1172 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibiting state agencies from spraying pesticides targeting mosquitoes before dusk.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-11 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 03/11/2020 House Journal 7 P. 20 [HB1172 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2020-HB1172-Introduced.html
HB 1172 - AS INTRODUCED
2020 SESSION
20-2222
06/08
HOUSE BILL 1172
AN ACT prohibiting state agencies from spraying pesticides targeting mosquitoes before dusk.
SPONSORS: Rep. Rice, Hills. 37; Rep. Hinch, Hills. 21; Rep. Notter, Hills. 21; Rep. Nunez, Hills. 37; Sen. Morse, Dist 22; Sen. Carson, Dist 14
COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture
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ANALYSIS
This bill prohibits state agencies managing land from allowing the use of pesticides to control mosquitoes before dusk.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20-2222
06/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty
AN ACT prohibiting state agencies from spraying pesticides targeting mosquitoes before dusk.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Public Health; Mosquito Control Policy for State Agencies. Amend RSA 142-A:3, VII to read as follows:
VII.(a) State agencies managing land shall allow the use of pesticides to control adult mosquitoes, in accordance with applicable law and rules, in areas where a public health threat has been declared by the commissioner pursuant to RSA 141-C and the land:
[(a)] (1) Is adjacent to areas of high public use;
[(b)] (2) Has areas where topographical and other conditions result in high adult mosquito populations;
[(c)] (3) Is located within a focal area determined by the department to have a risk of a human outbreak of arboviral disease which warrants the use of pesticides to control adult mosquitoes as set forth in the arboviral illness response plan adopted by the department; and
[(d)] (4) Is managed in accordance with general integrated pest management practices.
(b) No state agency managing land shall allow the use of pesticides to control mosquitoes before dusk.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
