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For ease of reference, see links below for target resources based on Northwest, Plains, Midwest, West/Southwest, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic/Northeast regions.

Bills for 2025*

Federal—FY26 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill

The Interior and Environment Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee voted Tuesday, July 15 [8-5], on a bill that includes language that provides total pesticide immunity language that will block farmers and consumers from suing chemical manufacturers when they fail to disclose the harm that their products cause and block states from providing information on product harm beyond EPA-approved language. The language prohibits EPA from approving a pesticide product label or taking action inconsistent with a human health assessment or carcinogenicity classification previously approved by the EPA—freezing the EPA's position on a pesticide in place for decades, and eliminating the ability to hold the company accountable.

(The language is found here. Search on Sec. 453.) The markup of the bill was live-streamed on the House Committee's website. The subcommittee list is below!

Update from July 21, 2025, at 4 PM: Representative Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1) moved forward with amendments to strike sections 453 and 507 of the FY26 Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill, which is a provision that provides immunity for pesticide manufacturers from farmer and consumer lawsuits seeking compensation from product harm.

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Update from July 23, 2025, at 10 AMThe FY26 Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill passed out of the Appropriations Committee with sections 453 and 507 included, via a voice vote.

Update from July 25, 2025, at 11 AM: The Senate Appropriations Committee convened a full markup on July 24 [26-2], which thankfully did not include these toxic provisions when the bill passed out of Committee. Please stay tuned for updates!

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Moving forward, it is vital to keep this language out of the Senate version, which allows for a strategically strong position at the House-Senate conference. Contacting your elected officials in Congress to either remove (House) or prevent inclusion of (Senate) sections 453 and 507 from the final bill helps to educate and raise public awareness on the critical issue that protects access to the courts for those harmed by pesticides.

North Carolina

See here for the pesticide immunity bill language, Section 19 of SB 639, introduced in the North Dakota Legislature as an amended section on April 30.

See here for the pesticide immunity bill language, Section 17 of SB 401—the same text as in Section 19 of SB 639!

Status: SB 639 passed the Senate on June 17. The bill was referred to the Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Standing Committee on June 18!

The House Agriculture and Energy Committee met at 11 AM ET on June 18 to oppose a "gut and replace" version of THE SAME PESTICIDE IMMUNITY TEXT in SB 401, Section 17, in a bipartisan vote [21-13].

The committee reconvened at 11 AM ET on June 25, and SB 401 moved forward without the pesticide immunity language.

*Unfortunately, the Senate did not concur on June 26, meaning that SB 639 will now go to a closed-door process (conference committee) as early as Tuesday, July 22—stay tuned for further updates!

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Missouri

See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, HB 544/SB 14, in the Missouri legislature. 

Status: HB 544/SB 14 and HB 1116  failed to pass the Missouri Senate before the end of the 2025 legislative session.

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Georgia

See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, SB 144/HB 424, introduced in the Georgia legislature.

Status: Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) signed SB 144/HB 424 into law on May 9, 2025.

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North Dakota

See here for the latest pesticide immunity bill text, HB 1318, in the North Dakota legislature.

Status: Governor Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) signed HB 1318 into law on April 24, 2025.

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Iowa

See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, SF 394 (Previously Senate Study Bill 1051), in the Iowa legislature.

Status: SSB 1051 was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 19. The bill was renumbered as SF 394 on February 20. SF 394 narrowly passed the Senate on March 26 [26-21].

The bill failed to move forward after the House Speaker reported that there were not sufficient votes to move forward "at this time." (as of May 15). 

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Florida

See here for the latest pesticide immunity bill text, HB 129/SB 992 in the Florida legislature.

Status: HB 129 and SB 992 were defeated after the House and Senate "Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration" on May 3.

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Tennessee

See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, HB 809/SB 527, in the Tennessee legislature.

Status: The House Judiciary Committee on April 8 deferred action on HB 809 until 2026, effectively defeating HB 809/SB 527 for this year's legislative session.

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Idaho

See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, HB 303, introduced in the Idaho legislature

Status: HB 303 was defeated after failing to move forward before the end of the legislative session on April 4.

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Oklahoma

See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, HB 1755/SB 1078, in the Oklahoma legislature. 

Status: The bill was defeated after failing to move forward to a second reading on Thursday, March 27Stay tuned for any last-minute developments before the end of the legislative session on May 30. 

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Montana

See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, HB 522, introduced in the Montana legislature.

Status: The bill was defeated after failing to move past the second reading. [49-50]

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Mississippi

See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, HB 1221/SB 2472, introduced in the Mississippi legislature.

Status: The bill was defeated after failing to move out of committee.

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Wyoming

See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, HB 285, introduced in the Wyoming legislature.

Status: The bill was defeated after failing to move out of committee.

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*Updated as of July 25, 2025

Bills Tracked from 2024

Farm Bill (House GOP Draft introduced in Spring 2024): “[P]rohibit any State, instrumentality or political subdivision thereof. . . from directly or indirectly imposing or continuing in effect any requirements for, or penalize or hold liable any entity for failing to comply with requirements with respect to, labeling or packaging that is in addition to or different from the labeling or packaging approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.” (SEC. 10204. UNIFORMITY OF PESTICIDE LABELING REQUIREMENTS, p. 790). 

Idaho (Introduced in Spring 2024): “ Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, for any pesticide registered by the United States environmental protection agency under the federal insecticide, fungicide and rodenticide act (FIFRA), the label approved by the United States environmental protection agency in registering the pesticide or a label consistent with the most recent human health assessment performed under FIFRA or consistent with United States environmental protection agency carcinogenicity classification for the pesticide under FIFRA shall be sufficient to satisfy any requirements for a warning regarding health or safety or any other provision or doctrine of state law, including without limitation state tort law or relevant common law.” 

Iowa (Introduced in Spring 2024): “This bill provides for a defense from civil liability associated with the use of pesticides that are registered with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acting under the federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (federal Act). The bill provides that a label provides sufficient warning if it complies with any one of three criteria: 

(1) it was approved by the EPA, 

(2) it is consistent with the most recent human health assessment performed under the federal Act, or  

(3) it is consistent with the EPA’s carcinogenicity classification for the pesticide. 

In each case, the label is sufficient to satisfy any requirements for a warning regarding health or safety under Code chapter 20633 (“Pesticide Act of Iowa”), and any other provision of state law or any other common law duty to warn.” 

Missouri (Introduced in Spring 2024): “For purposes of this section, any pesticide registered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), a pesticide label approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, or a pesticide label consistent with the most recent human health assessment performed under FIFRA, or consistent with the United States Environmental Protection Agency carcinogenicity classification of the pesticide under FIFRA, shall be sufficient to satisfy any requirement for a warning label regarding health or safety or any other provision of current law.