Pesticide Injury Accountability Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-2324
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2025-07-17
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Latest action: action_date: 2025-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2324 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 17, 2025 Mr. Booker introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry A BILL To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to establish a private right of action for injuries caused by pesticides, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act of 2025 . 2. Private right of action for injuries caused by pesticides The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act ( 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. ) is amended— (1) by redesignating sections 34 and 35 ( 7 U.S.C. 136x , 136y) as sections 35 and 36, respectively; and (2) by inserting after section 33 ( 7 U.S.C. 136w–8 ) the following: 34. Private right of action for injuries caused by pesticides (a) In general Any person the property or person of which is injured by a pesticide may bring a civil action in Federal district court against a registrant of the pesticide for monetary damages for injury to the property or person caused by the pesticide. (b) Recoverable damages Monetary damages that may be recovered in a civil action under subsection (a)— (1) include compensatory and punitive damages, at the discretion of the court; and (2) do not include attorney's fees or court costs. (c) Effect Nothing in this section shall preempt any State law claim. .