Pesticide Safety: Protecting State Lawsuits for Health Warnings
The House Committee on Agriculture is the next group that must review this bill. It has not moved since July 21, 2026. Most bills like this do not receive a committee vote and often stop moving at this stage.
The bill has rare bipartisan support from both very conservative and very liberal lawmakers, but it faces heavy opposition from the powerful chemical and agriculture industries.
Scores run from -100 (strongly harmful) to +100 (strongly beneficial) for each group, combining impact, certainty, scope, and duration ratings of 1-5. How impact scoring works
Smaller pesticide formulators, distributors, and application businesses face greater legal risk because EPA label approval will no longer count as a complete defense against state lawsuits, only as evidence that helps but does not guarantee they followed the rules. This could raise insurance and legal costs for smaller firms that lack the resources of large chemical corporations.
“registration of a pesticide and the approval of the labeling of such pesticide by the Administrator, shall be prima facie evidence (but not conclusive evidence) that the pesticide and its labeling comply with this Act”
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Americans vs. Poisonous Pesticides Act
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