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STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE
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H.P. 1134 - L.D. 1770
Resolve, Directing the Board of Pesticides Control to Transition to Electronic
Submission of Pesticides Sales and Use Data
Sec. 1.
That, pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22, section 1471-M, subsection 2,
paragraph D, the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Board of
Pesticides Control shall adopt any rules necessary to implement the transition from paper
to electronic format of reports required to be submitted to the board as required by Title 22,
section 1471-G. The board shall implement a system of electronic data collection that is
efficient for those required to submit reports to the board under Title 22, section 1471-G
and useful to the board and members of the public. Rules adopted pursuant to this section
are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.
Sec. 2. That, no later than March 1, 2024, the director of the
Board of Pesticides Control within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and
Forestry shall submit a report regarding rulemaking and implementation of electronic
reporting under section 1 to the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation
and Forestry, which may report out a bill to the Second Regular Session of the 131st
Legislature based on the report.
APPROVED
JUNE 23, 2023
BY GOVERNOR
CHAPTER
71
RESOLVES