Failure-to-Warn
Tools Hub for Advocates
For ease of reference, see links below for target resources based on Northwest, Plains, Midwest, West/Southwest, Southeast, and MidAltantic/Northeast regions.
Bills for 2025*
Oklahoma
See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, HB 1755/SB 1078, in the Oklahoma legislature. See here for the amended version of the House bill text as of February 28. See here for the most recent version of the Senate bill text as of March 4.
Status: HB 1755 was referred to the House Rules Committee on March 4 after a public hearing in the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee was withdrawn from the record on the same day.
The Oklahoma Senate could hear SB 1078 next week. The legislative deadline for this bill to move forward in the process is Thursday, March 27.
Georgia
See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, SB 144/HB 424, introduced in the Georgia legislature.
Status: SB 144 and HB 424 were voted out of the Senate Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Committee and House Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Committee on February 19. SB 144 was voted through the Senate on Tuesday, March 4 [42-12].
SB 144 has passed the House [101-58]. This marks a first major setback; however, there is the opportunity to contact the Governor’s office to not sign, but VETO this legislation!
North Dakota
See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, HB 1318, in the North Dakota legislature.
Status: The bill passed the House on January 24 and was received by the Senate on January 27. HB 1318 was referred to the Senate Agriculture and Veteran Affairs Committee on February 13, with a public hearing scheduled for March 6, however it was canceled with little notice. A public hearing was scheduled on Friday, March 14 at 8:30 am CST in the Senate Agriculture and Veterans Affairs Committee. The Committee met on March 21, but held off from voting until the week of March 24-28. There will be an update provided as soon as information becomes available.
Missouri
See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, HB 544/SB 14, in the Missouri legislature.
Status: HB 544 passed the House on February 20 [85-72].
SB 14 was referred to the Senate Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee on March 13. SB 14 is on the informal calendar for perfection (the bill can be raised at any time for a final vote!)
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.
Florida
See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, HB 129/SB 992 in the Florida legislature.
Status: HB 129 was referred to the Civil Justice and Claims Subcommittee as of January 15. The House bill was filed for first reading on March 4.
SB 992 was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 28. The Senate bill was introduced on March 4. There is a committee meeting on Tuesday, March 25, however SB 992 is not on the published agenda at this time.
Tennessee
See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, HB 809/SB 527, in the Tennessee legislature.
Status:
HB 809 passed out of the Agricultural and Natural Resources Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee on March 12. HB 809 passed out of the Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee on March 18. The bill was referred to House Judiciary Committee, with a public hearing scheduled for Wednesday, March 26 at 12 pm CST.
SB 527 was passed out of the Senate Energy, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Committee on March 12. The bill was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee, a public hearing scheduled for Monday, March 24 at 12 pm CST.
Idaho
See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, HB 303, introduced in the Idaho legislature
Status: HB 303 was filed on February 21, with a public hearing expected at a moment's notice in the House Agriculture Committee.
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]
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.
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.
*Updated as of March 21, 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.