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Environment Committee advances bill to limit second‑generation anticoagulant rodenticides with narrow exemptions
Summary
The Environment Committee voted to advance House Bill 5217 to the floor. The substitute would ban second‑generation anticoagulant rodenticides beginning in October while exempting public health activities, municipal health departments responding to outbreaks, certain agricultural uses and specified industrial sites; lawmakers questioned municipal transfer station use, EPA guidance and alternatives.
The Environment Committee moved House Bill 5217 to the floor after members debated a substitute that would ban the use of second‑generation anticoagulant rodenticides in the state beginning in October while carving out several exemptions.
The chair summarized the substitute, saying it removes a DEEP requirement to classify certain rodenticides as restricted use and lifts a ban on sales and distribution while creating a specific ban on second‑generation anticoagulants that would take effect in October. Exemptions cited by the chair include public health activities, municipal public health departments responding to outbreaks, protections for water‑supply infrastructure, mosquito control, control of non‑native invasive species, specific responses to rodent infestations, agriculture activities and certain medical‑waste or drug‑ or device‑production facilities.
"Based on the public hearing testimony . . . these second generation anticoagulants are are having unintended consequences that are affecting not only our birds of prey, but also, our local fox,…
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