Signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to hold at least one public hearing and seek an evaluation of health and environmental risks prior to conducting an eradication plan that possibly involves the aerial spraying of pesticides.

Highlights:

- Expands the information that must be contained in the mandatory 72-hour notice of pesticide spraying that the Department of Food and Agriculture must submit to residents and physicians to include the active ingredients and inert materials of the pesticide [sec. 3 (e)]. - Specifies that the public hearing include a presentation by the Department of Food and Agriculture to consider all of the alternatives to aerial spraying, and that such presentation be open to public comment [sec. 2 (a)]. - Specifies that the health and environmental risk evaluations be prepared by the Department of Pesticide Regulation and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment [sec. 2 (b)].

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to hold at least one public hearing and seek an evaluation of health and environmental risks prior to conducting an eradication plan that possibly involves the aerial spraying of pesticides.

Highlights:

- Expands the information that must be contained in the mandatory 72-hour notice of pesticide spraying that the Department of Food and Agriculture must submit to residents and physicians to include the active ingredients and inert materials of the pesticide [sec. 3 (e)]. - Specifies that the public hearing include a presentation by the Department of Food and Agriculture to consider all of the alternatives to aerial spraying, and that such presentation be open to public comment [sec. 2 (a)]. - Specifies that the health and environmental risk evaluations be prepared by the Department of Pesticide Regulation and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment [sec. 2 (b)].

Full Bill Text