SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘School Environment 
Protection Act of 2003’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that—
(1) in 1992, the National Parent Teacher Asso-
ciation passed a resolution calling for the reduced 
use of pesticides in schools and calling on policy-
makers to consider all possible alternatives before 
using any pesticides; 
(2) the National Education Association and 
many other national public interest organizations 
have announced support for reducing or eliminating 
pesticide use in schools; 
(3) childhood cancer is continuing to increase at 
the alarming rate of 1 percent per year; 
(4) the overall incidence of childhood cancer in-
creased 10 percent between 1974 and 1991, making 
cancer the leading cause of childhood death from 
disease; 
(5) approximately 4,800,000 children in the 
United States under the age of 18 have asthma, the 
most common chronic illness in children, and the in-
cidence of asthma is on the rise; 
(6) children are more susceptible to hazardous 
impacts from pesticides than are adults;
(7) numerous scientific studies have linked both 
cancer and asthma to pesticide exposure; 
(8) the Environmental Protection Agency has 
recommended the use of an integrated pest manage-
ment system by local educational agencies, which 
emphasizes nonchemical ways of reducing pests, 
such as sanitation and maintenance; 
(9) integrated pest management— 
(A) promotes nonchemical methods of pest 
prevention and management using least toxic 
pesticides after all other methods have been ex-
hausted; and 
(B) requires a notification process by 
which each student, parent, guardian, staff 
member, and teacher shall be notified of a pes-
ticide application; 
(10) parents and guardians have a right to 
know that there is an integrated pest management 
system in their children’s schools; 
(11) an integrated pest management system 
provides long-term health and economic benefits; 
and 
(12) parents and guardians wish to and have a 
right to be notified in advance of any use of a pes-
ticide in their children’s schools.
SEC. 3. INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR 
SCHOOLS. 
The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 
Act is amended—
(1) by redesignating sections 33 and 34 (7 
U.S.C. 136x, 136y) as sections 34 and 35, respec-
tively; and 
(2) by inserting after section 32 (7 U.S.C. 
136w–7) the following: 
‘‘SEC. 33. INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR 
SCHOOLS. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) BOARD.—The term ‘Board’ means the Na-
tional School Integrated Pest Management Advisory 
Board established under subsection (c). 
‘‘(2) CONTACT
PERSON.—The term ‘contact 
person’ means an individual who is—
‘‘(A) knowledgeable about integrated pest 
management systems; and 
‘‘(B) designated by a local educational 
agency as the contact person under subsection 
(f). 
‘‘(3) CRACK AND CREVICE TREATMENT.—The 
term ‘crack and crevice treatment’ means the appli-
cation of small quantities of a pesticide in a building 
into openings such as those commonly found at ex-
pansion joints, between levels of construction, and 
between equipment and floors. 
‘‘(4) 
EMERGENCY.—The 
term 
‘emergency’ 
means an urgent need to mitigate or eliminate a 
pest that threatens the health or safety of a student 
or staff member. 
‘‘(5) FUND.—The term ‘Fund’ means the Inte-
grated Pest Management Trust Fund established 
under subsection (m). 
‘‘(6) INTEGRATED
PEST
MANAGEMENT
SYS-
TEM.—The term ‘integrated pest management sys-
tem’ means a managed pest control system that—
‘‘(A) eliminates or mitigates economic, 
health, and aesthetic damage caused by pests; 
‘‘(B) uses—
‘‘(i) integrated methods; 
‘‘(ii) site or pest inspections; 
‘‘(iii) pest population monitoring; 
‘‘(iv) an evaluation of the need for 
pest control; and 
‘‘(v) 1 or more pest control methods, 
including sanitation, structural repair, me-
chanical and biological controls, other non-
chemical methods, and (if nontoxic options
are unreasonable and have been exhausted) 
least toxic pesticides; and 
‘‘(C) minimizes—
‘‘(i) the use of pesticides; and 
‘‘(ii) the risk to human health and the 
environment associated with pesticide ap-
plications. 
‘‘(7) LEAST TOXIC PESTICIDES.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘least toxic 
pesticides’ means—
‘‘(i) 
boric 
acid 
and 
disodium 
octoborate tetrahydrate; 
‘‘(ii) silica gels; 
‘‘(iii) diatomaceous earth; 
‘‘(iv) nonvolatile insect and rodent 
baits in tamper resistant containers or for 
crack and crevice treatment only; 
‘‘(v) microbe-based insecticides; 
‘‘(vi) botanical insecticides (not in-
cluding synthetic pyrethroids) without toxic 
synergists; 
‘‘(vii) biological, living control agents; 
and 
‘‘(viii) materials for which the inert 
ingredients are nontoxic and disclosed.
‘‘(B) EXCLUSIONS.—The term ‘least toxic 
pesticides’ does not include a pesticide that is 
determined by the Administrator to be an 
acutely or moderately toxic pesticide, car-
cinogen, mutagen, teratogen, reproductive toxin, 
developmental neurotoxin, endocrine disrupter, 
or immune system toxin, and any application of 
the pesticide using a broadcast spray, dust, 
tenting, fogging, or baseboard spray applica-
tion. 
‘‘(8) LIST.—The term ‘list’ means the list of 
least toxic pesticides established under subsection 
(d). 
‘‘(9) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—The term 
‘local educational agency’ has the meaning given the 
term in section 14101 of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8801). 
‘‘(10) PERSON.—The term ‘person’ means—
‘‘(A) an individual that attends, has chil-
dren enrolled in, works at, or uses a school; 
‘‘(B) a resident of a school district; and 
‘‘(C) any other individual that may be af-
fected by pest management activities of a 
school.