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| 3 | 3 | | 2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE |
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| 4 | 4 | | 2023 SENATE BILL 358 |
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| 5 | 5 | | July 13, 2023 - Introduced by Senators AGARD, SMITH, CARPENTER, HESSELBEIN, |
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| 6 | 6 | | LARSON, ROYS and SPREITZER, cosponsored by Representatives SNODGRASS, |
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| 7 | 7 | | CONSIDINE, C. ANDERSON, J. ANDERSON, ANDRACA, BEHNKE, CABRERA, BALDEH, |
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| 8 | 8 | | BARE, BILLINGS, CONLEY, EMERSON, HAYWOOD, HONG, JACOBSON, JOERS, MOORE |
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| 9 | 9 | | OMOKUNDE, OHNSTAD, ORTIZ-VELEZ, PALMERI, RATCLIFF, SHANKLAND, SHELTON, |
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| 10 | 10 | | SINICKI, STUBBS, SUBECK and VINING. Referred to Committee on Labor, |
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| 11 | 11 | | Regulatory Reform, Veterans and Military Affairs. |
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| 12 | 12 | | AN ACT to create 94.51 of the statutes; relating to: labeling plants as beneficial |
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| 13 | 13 | | to pollinators. |
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| 14 | 14 | | Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau |
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| 15 | 15 | | This bill prohibits a person that provides plants or that sells plants at retail |
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| 16 | 16 | | from labeling or advertising the plant as being beneficial to pollinators if the plant |
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| 17 | 17 | | has been treated with an insecticide that contains warnings about pollinator hazards |
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| 18 | 18 | | on its label. |
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| 19 | 19 | | For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as |
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| 20 | 20 | | an appendix to this bill. |
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| 21 | 21 | | The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do |
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| 22 | 22 | | enact as follows: |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. 94.51 of the statutes is created to read: |
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| 24 | 24 | | 94.51 Pollinator labeling. (1) In this section: |
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| 25 | 25 | | (a) “Plant” means an annual plant, bedding plant, or other plant and includes |
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| 26 | 26 | | plant material and nursery stock, as defined under s. 94.10 (1) (f). |
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| 27 | 27 | | (b) “Pollinator” means an insect that pollinates flowers. |
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| 36 | 36 | | SECTION 1 SENATE BILL 358 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (c) “Systemic insecticide” means an insecticide that is absorbed by a plant and |
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| 38 | 38 | | moves through the plant's vascular system. |
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| 39 | 39 | | (2) No person that sells a plant at retail or provides a plant to an end user may |
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| 40 | 40 | | label or advertise the plant as being beneficial to pollinators if the plant has been |
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| 41 | 41 | | treated with a systemic insecticide that has a pollinator protection box on its label |
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| 42 | 42 | | or that has a pollinator, bee, or honeybee precautionary statement in the |
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| 43 | 43 | | environmental hazards section of its label. |
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| 44 | 44 | | SECTION 2.0Effective date. |
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| 45 | 45 | | (1) This act takes effect on the first day of the 7th month beginning after |
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| 46 | 46 | | publication. |
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