SF 394 (LSB 2360SV (2) 91)

SENATE FILE 394

BY  COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

(SUCCESSOR TO SSB 1051)

(As Amended and Passed by the Senate 2025-03-26)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to pesticides, by providing for tort liability.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 668.12, Code 2025, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  5.  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, for any pesticide registered with the United States environmental protection agency under the federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. §136 et seq., the label approved by the United States environmental protection agency in registering the pesticide, or a label consistent with the most recent human health assessment performed under the federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, or a label consistent with the United States environmental protection agency carcinogenicity classification for the pesticide under the federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, shall be sufficient to satisfy any requirements for a warning or labeling regarding health or safety under chapter 206, any other provision or doctrine of state law concerning the duty to warn or label, or any other common law duty to warn. This subsection shall not be interpreted to prohibit a cause of action based on any other provision or doctrine of state law.