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Major Accomplishments

2020

COLORADO - The LHPWG prepared a Memo in Opposition to Passage of Colorado Senate Bill 20-189 and was submitted to the CO Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources (Senator Coram, Senator Danielson, Senator Donovan, Senator Rodriguez and Senator Sonnenberg]. The Bill, if passed, would have overturned existing Pesticide Preemption Legislation and it would have allowed counties, cities and towns to regulate the use of pesticides in Colorado. 

The Bill did not pass.

2019

NEW YORK - The LHPWG lobbied against passage of New York Assembly Bill 4568 (NY SB 2130) which would have mandated the nitrogen content of specialty fertilizers applied in on Long Island, New York (Nassau County and Suffolk County). The bill required 1) a 50% slow release nitrogen content and 2) limited the total nitrogen content of the product to 10% by weight.  This Bill would have set a dangerous precedent and would have required the industry to formulate a new products for two counties in New York.

The Bill did not pass.

 

2018

CALIFORNIA - The LHPWG lobbied against passage of Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Act (CA SB 623) which would have raised the Mill Assessment on specialty fertilizers by (0.006) which is a 300% increase to raise money to pay for drinking water treatment plants throughout California for the next fifteen years.

This would have had a drastic effect on the specialty fertilizer industry; i.e., a specialty fertilizer company that paid a Mill Assessment of $1,000.00 per year would have paid $3,000.00 per year for the next 15 years had the Bill passed.

In this example, had the Bill passed the company would pay $45,000.00 in assessments as opposed to the current $15,000.00 in assessment.

Thanks to the LHPWG's efforts, the Bill did not pass.