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Committee restores supervised-use rules for restricted pesticides in House Bill 10 amendment
Summary
The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee accepted an amendment to House Bill 10 that reinstates supervised application rules for restricted-use pesticides, requires training standards set by the director of agriculture, and expands the statutory definition of "immediate family."
The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee accepted an amendment to House Bill 10 that restores prior rules allowing trained service personnel and immediate family members to apply restricted-use pesticides under the direct supervision of a licensed applicator, with training required as prescribed by the director of agriculture.
The change, offered in amendment AM 130-67-98 and explained to the committee by Vice Chair Kaler, reenacts provisions removed earlier by House Bill 96 and adds a training requirement: the amendment requires that trained service personnel and immediate family members be "trained in accordance with the standards prescribed by the director of agriculture." Tony Segers, representing Ohio Plant — an association of pesticide, landscape, agriculture, nursery and turf companies…
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