Bill Text - HB1208 (2020)

Relative to notification of pesticide application in residential property.


Revision: Dec. 2, 2019, 11:39 a.m.

HB 1208 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2346

10/08

 

HOUSE BILL 1208

 

AN ACT relative to notification of pesticide application in residential property.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Vail, Hills. 30; Rep. Horrigan, Straf. 6; Rep. Klee, Hills. 30; Rep. Conley, Straf. 13; Rep. Dutzy, Hills. 30

 

COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires that the Materials Safety Data Sheet for a pesticide application in a residential building be made available to the owner and all occupants.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2346

10/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to notification of pesticide application in residential property.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Section; Pesticides Controls; Required Access to Pesticide Information.  Amend RSA 430 by inserting after section 34-a the following new section:

430:34-b  Required Information on Residential Pesticide Application.  A commercial applicator for hire who applies a pesticide in or on a residential building shall provide copies of the Materials Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for such pesticide to the owner and all occupants of the residential property and shall make available copies of such MSDS at the location of the pesticide application, or shall be provided to any person residing at the residential building upon request.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.