MA H985

Creates a 10-member Mosquito Management Board within the Department of Food and Agriculture, chaired by a Department of Environmental Protection employee, with appointed members serving 4-year terms representing conservation, beekeepers, pollinators, pesticide experts, and ecotoxicology

Requires development of a statewide Integrated Pest Management plan emphasizing preventative measures, surveillance, public education, and source reduction (removing standing water, restoring wetlands) as preferred approaches over chemical treatments

Prohibits aerial application of mosquito-control adulticides and bans use of larvicides or adulticides containing PFAS or other fluorinated compounds

Restricts adulticiding to locations with confirmed mosquito-borne disease detection in the current year and only when disease risk is high or critical as determined by the Department of Public Health

Grants municipalities and landowners the right to opt out of larviciding or adulticiding except during governor-declared public health emergencies with high or critical disease risk findings