creating a committee to study neonicotinoid seed treatments.
What changed between versions
The entire prohibition on selling, offering for sale, exposing for sale, importing, or using neonicotinoid-treated corn, wheat, or soybean seeds was deleted.
A study committee was created with 3 House members (appointed by the Speaker) and 1 Senate member (appointed by the President) to investigate neonicotinoid seed treatments.
The waiver process allowing a person to request written permission from the commissioner of agriculture to sell or use treated seed was removed.
The committee must study: Quebec's ban results (crop types, yields, costs, environmental changes, waiver use), Cornell College research on effects of discontinuing neonicotinoid treatments, steps New York and Vermont are taking to ensure seed availability, and what seed dealers are doing to meet market needs in those jurisdictions.
The effective date changed from January 1, 2029 (for the prohibition) to upon passage (for the committee), with a report deadline of November 1, 2026.
Fiscal impact changed from indeterminable expenditures with potential judicial and correctional system costs to no fiscal impact on state, county, or local governments.
