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Committee reopens hearing on pesticide-labeling bill as stakeholders negotiate amendments
Summary
House Bill 1318 (pesticide labeling) was reopened for additional testimony. Agricultural groups urged protections tied to EPA label determinations; trial attorneys sought preserved legal remedies. Stakeholders proposed clarifying amendments limiting the bill's effect to health-and-safety duty-to-warn claims; committee deferred final action.
The Senate Agriculture and Veterans Affairs Committee reopened testimony on House Bill 1318, a bill focused on pesticide labeling and the legal effect of federal label determinations. The committee heard additional supporters, opponents and clarification from industry and legal representatives but took no final action.
Sarah Lovas, director with the North Dakota Grain Growers Association and an agronomist, testified in support of HB 1318 and described the bill as aimed at whether the pesticide label is sufficient for warning the public, not as a judgment about individual active…
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