HI HCR231

Department of Agriculture and Department of Health jointly conduct a study on short-term and long-term effects of chlorpyrifos pesticide on farmworkers, with special focus on pregnant or possibly pregnant farmworkers.

Study must examine consultant information, raw data, availability of medical services, records of pregnant farmworkers' exposures, and recommendations on other agency participation and potential new environmental department establishment.

EPA November 2016 assessment found chlorpyrifos has no safe uses, with unsafe exposure levels in food, water, pesticide drift at 300 feet from fields, and all workers mixing/applying the pesticide receiving unsafe exposure even with protective equipment.

California added chlorpyrifos to its list of chemicals causing reproductive and developmental toxicity on December 15, 2017, and requires warning labels for exposures above safe levels beginning December 15, 2018.

Department of Agriculture and Department of Health must submit report with findings, recommendations, and proposed legislation by twenty days prior to Regular Session of 2019.