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*
Georgia
See here for pesticide immunity bill text, SB 144/HB424, introduced in the Georgia legislature.
Status: SB 144 and HB424 were voted out of respective Agriculture and Consumer Affairs committees on February 19.
Montana
See here for pesticide immunity bill text, HB522, introduced in the Montana legislature.
Status: This bill was introduced on February 18 and referred to Senate Agriculture Committee.
Wyoming
See here for pesticide immunity bill text, HB 285, introduced in the Wyoming legislature.
Status: The bill was defeated after failing to move out of committee.
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.
SB 14 passed the Senate Agriculture, Food Production, and Outdoor Recreation on January 30.
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, in the Florida legislature.
Status: HB 129 was referred to several House committees, including the Civil Justice and Claims subcommittee as of January 15.
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 Senate Agriculture and Veteran Affairs committee as of February 13.
Oklahoma
See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, HB 1755, in the Oklahoma legislature.
Status: The bill was defeated after the legislative sponsor pulled the bill after public backlash.
Mississippi
See here for 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.
Tennessee
See here for the pesticide immunity bill text, HB 809/SB 527, in the Tennessee legislature.
Status: HB 809 was referred to the Agricultural and Natural Resources Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee on February 10.
SB527 was filed in the Senate on Senate Energy, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Committee on February 12.
*Updated as of February 20, 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.