SB 419 Summary

• Amends Oklahoma statutes on entomology and plant industry by modifying license, permit, and registration requirements for nursery stock dealers, pesticide applicators, and pesticide producers.

• Removes the reexamination requirement for license renewals; applicants may renew licenses without penalty if proper applications are filed by specified deadlines, with late applications subject to double renewal fees instead of mandatory reexamination.

• Increases annual pesticide registration fee allocation for unwanted pesticide disposal programs from $100,000 to $300,000 annually, deposited into the State Department of Agriculture Unwanted Pesticide Disposal Fund.

• Clarifies statutory language throughout by replacing references to "subarticle" with "section" and updates department name references to "Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry."

• Effective date: November 1, 2015.