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VT H0484

Bill

Status

Passed

6/11/2025

Primary Sponsor

Agriculture, Food Resiliency, and Forestry

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025-2026 Session

AI Summary

  • Renames Vermont's "Fertilizer, Lime, Plant Amendment, Plant Biostimulant, and Soil Amendment Law" to the "Fertilizer, Lime, and Beneficial Substances Law," consolidating plant amendments, biostimulants, soil amendments, and inoculants under a single "beneficial substance" category with updated registration and labeling requirements

  • Adds $50 annual fee per pesticide product registration to fund collection and disposal of obsolete pesticides through municipal hazardous waste programs, with a study due December 15, 2025 on sustainable funding options including extended producer responsibility

  • Exempts the Rutland County Agricultural Society from stormwater impact fees and offset requirements under three-acre stormwater permits, provided the Society registers with the Agency of Agriculture

  • Validates the Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation's "Heavy Cut" rule that was inadvertently repealed in 2018, making all heavy cut authorizations from July 1, 2018 through July 1, 2025 valid and enforceable

  • Extends deadlines for household hazardous waste stewardship organization registration (to July 1, 2026), expands the Paint Product Stewardship Program to cover aerosol coatings, coating-related products, and nonindustrial coatings, and delays baseload renewable power portfolio requirements by one year (to November 1, 2028)

Legislative Description

An act relating to miscellaneous agricultural subjects

Last Action

House message: Governor approved bill on June 11, 2025

6/13/2025

Committee Referrals

Finance5/13/2025
Agriculture3/27/2025
Ways and Means3/18/2025

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