HOUSE BILL REPORT

HB 2554

BYRepresentatives Rayburn, McLean, Youngsman and Rasmussen; by request of Department of Agriculture

Removing dairy farm exception from pesticide recordkeeping requirement.

House Committe on Agriculture & Rural Development

Majority Report:  Do pass.  (11)

      Signed by Representatives Rayburn, Chair; Kremen, Vice Chair; Nealey, Ranking Republican Member; Baugher, Chandler, Doty, Grant, Jesernig, Kirby, Rasmussen and Youngsman.

House Staff:Kenneth Hirst (786- 7105)

AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE & RURAL DEVELOPMENT

JANUARY 25, 1990

BACKGROUND:

The state's Pesticide Application Act requires all persons licensed as pesticide applicators, all persons who apply pesticides to more than one acre of agricultural land in a calendar year, and public entities engaged in the roadside spraying of pesticides to keep certain records regarding the use of those pesticides.  An owner or operator of a dairy farm applying pesticides to the farm is exempted from this requirement.

SUMMARY:

The exemption from recordkeeping requirements regarding pesticide applications which is currently provided by the Pesticide Application Act to a dairy farm owner or operator is repealed.

Fiscal Note:      Requested January 17, 1990.

House Committee ‑ Testified For:    Mike Schwisow, Department of Agriculture.

House Committee - Testified Against:      No one.

House Committee - Testimony For:    The bill corrects an oversight in the 1989 pesticide law.  The records held by dairy operators will be used only in the investigation of complaints.

House Committee - Testimony Against:      None.