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MA H124
Bill
Status
Introduced
2/27/2025
Primary Sponsor
Carmine Gentile
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AI Summary
- Expands existing pesticide restrictions to cover additional locations: Department of Children and Families properties, juvenile court facilities, Department of Youth Services facilities, and town youth sports fields
- Extends pesticide protections to properties within 150 feet of covered locations, including abutting properties
- Restricts schools, child care centers, public higher education institutions, and school-age child care programs to using only EPA-exempt pesticides (under 40 C.F.R. 152.25) or products with active ingredients on the USDA National Organic Program list (7 C.F.R. 205.601)
- Allows the department to grant hardship waivers for use of pesticides that do not meet the new restrictions
- Applies pesticide regulations regardless of whether the hiring entity is a public or private property owner, management company, or other person or legal entity
Legislative Description
Relative to improving pesticide protections for Massachusetts schoolchildren
Last Action
Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2/5/2026
Committee Referrals
Ways and Means2/5/2026
Environment and Natural Resources8/7/2025
Agriculture2/27/2025
Full Bill Text
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