Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources

Event Details

Status:

Completed

Event Date:

Monday, October 27, 2025

Start Time:

1:00 PM

Location:

A-1 and Virtual

Event Description

Pesticides and Pollinators

The Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources will hold a hybrid public hearing to accept written and oral testimony on the below-listed legislation. This hearing will be chaired by Senate Chair Becca Rausch. Please be advised that the docket is subject to change by agreement of the Chairs.

Persons seeking to provide oral testimony, whether in person or remotely, should pre-register by 10:00 a.m. on Friday, October 24, 2025, using this online form: https://forms.office.com/g/QSjDgWHnyE. Persons seeking to testify remotely must pre-register by the stated deadline; further instructions on how to participate will be provided after registration. Oral testimony is limited to 3 minutes per person. Oral testimony from panels is limited to 8 minutes total, to be distributed at the discretion of the panelists. Individuals and panels may testify only once, and testimony may cover multiple bills; all testimony must be completed within the stated time limits. The Chairs may reduce the testimony time limits at their discretion.

Written testimony does not require pre-registration and may be submitted via email to: JointCommittee.Environment@malegislature.gov. Written testimony should be submitted not later than two (2) weeks following the hearing date.

All above-listed matters filed in the House are required to be reported on by December 26, 2025, subject to extensions consistent with House Rule 27.

The public is invited to participate in this hybrid hearing, which will be livestreamed on the General Court website: https://malegislature.gov/. Hearings will be recorded and posted publicly on the Committee page: https://malegislature.gov/Committees/Detail/J21/Hearings.

At the discretion of the Chairs and per committee rules, written testimony received by the committee will be made publicly available. The committee may limit availability or redact testimony that includes sensitive personal information, information about minors, or information that may jeopardize the health, wellness, or safety of the testifier or others.

The Committee strongly prefers that written testimony be submitted by email, as specified above. If email submission is not possible, written testimony may be submitted in hard copy to:

Senator Becca Rausch, Senate Chair

Representative Christine Barber, House Chair

Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources

State House Room 215

Boston, MA 02133

Questions regarding the hearing, legislation, or reasonable accommodations to ensure people with disabilities can participate fully in the committee process may be directed to Clay Spivey with Chair Rausch at Clayton.Spivey@masenate.gov or 617-722-1555, or Jacob Newman with Chair Barber at Jacob.Newman@mahouse.gov.

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Item Name	Start Time	Duration	Webcast
Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources - 10-27-2025	10/27/2025 1:00 PM	03:37:02

Pesticides and Pollinators 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Bill	Bill Title	Sponsor
H.108	An Act to protect Massachusetts pollinators	James C. Arena-DeRosa
H.124	An Act relative to improving pesticide protections for Massachusetts schoolchildren	Carmine Lawrence Gentile
H.932	An Act relative to the pesticide board	Mindy Domb
H.950	An Act governing the use of pesticides containing the herbicide substance Glyphosate in the Commonwealth	Carmine Lawrence Gentile
H.954	An Act empowering vulnerable municipalities to protect residents and the environment from harmful pesticides	Carmine Lawrence Gentile
H.962	An Act relative to the use of chlorpyrifos in the Commonwealth	Kenneth I. Gordon
H.965	An Act restricting the use of rodenticides in the environment	James K. Hawkins
H.975	An Act authorizing the town of Newbury to adopt a bylaw restricting the use of second generation anticoagulant rodenticides	Kristin E. Kassner
H.981	An Act to protect pollinator habitat	Mary S. Keefe
H.985	An Act establishing an ecologically-based mosquito management program in the Commonwealth to protect public health	Kathleen R. LaNatra
H.995	An Act authorizing the town of Orleans to adopt a pesticide reduction bylaw	Hadley Luddy
H.1033	An Act responding to the threat of invasive species	David M. Rogers
H.1041	An Act to protect pollinators and public health	Lindsay N. Sabadosa
H.4091	An Act authorizing the city of Salem to prohibit the application of second generation anti-coagulant rodenticides within its borders	Manny Cruz
H.4133	An Act to authorize the town of Lexington to prohibit or restrict the application of second generation anticoagulant rodenticides	Michelle L. Ciccolo
H.4172	An Act authorizing the town of Provincetown to prohibit use or sale of second generation anti-coagulant rodenticides	Hadley Luddy
H.4191	An Act authorizing the town of Wellfleet to enact a pesticide reduction bylaw	Hadley Luddy
H.4310	An Act authorizing the town of Belmont to prohibit or restrict the application of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides	David M. Rogers
H.4500	An Act authorizing the town of Concord to ban second generation anticoagulant rodenticides within the town	Simon Cataldo
S.26	An Act authorizing the town of Brookline to prohibit or restrict the application of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides	Cynthia Stone Creem
S.547	An Act establishing an ecologically-based mosquito management program in the Commonwealth to protect public health	Joanne M. Comerford
S.552	An Act authorizing the city of Newton to prohibit the application of second generation anti-coagulant rodenticides within its borders	Cynthia Stone Creem
S.567	An Act relative to the pesticide board	Julian Cyr
S.587	An Act to protect pollinators and public health	James B. Eldridge
S.607	An Act responding to the threat of invasive species	Patricia D. Jehlen
S.617	An Act relative to the pesticide board	Jason M. Lewis
S.625	An Act governing the use of pesticides containing the herbicide substance glyphosate in the Commonwealth	Jason M. Lewis
S.628	Resolve to protect pollinator habitat	Jason M. Lewis
S.644	An Act restricting the use of rodenticides in the environment	Michael O. Moore
S.666	An Act relative to pesticide applications	Bruce E. Tarr
H.4266	An Act authorizing the city of Lowell to prohibit or restrict the application of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides	Vanna Howard
H.4571	An Act authorizing the town of Arlington to prohibit use of second generation anti-coagulant rodenticides by commercial pesticide applicators	Sean Garballey

Present (8)

Jennifer Balinsky Armini (HOU)

Simon Cataldo (HOU)

John R. Gaskey (HOU)

Tara T. Hong (HOU)

Kristin E. Kassner (HOU)

Margaret R. Scarsdale (HOU)

Kenneth P. Sweezey (HOU)

Mark D. Sylvia (HOU)

Absent (3)

Christine P. Barber (HOU) *

Dawne Shand (HOU) *

Jonathan D. Zlotnik (HOU) *

	Document
	H108 Bill Summary
	H124 Bill Summary
	H932 Bill Summary
	H950 Bill Summary
	H954 Bill Summary
	H962 Bill Summary
	H965 Bill Summary
	H975 Bill Summary
	H981 Bill Summary
	H985 Bill Summary
	H995 Bill Summary
	H1033 Bill Summary
	H1041 Bill Summary
	H4091 Bill Summary
	H4133 Bill Summary
	H4172 Bill Summary
	H4191 Bill Summary
	H4266 Bill Summary
	H4310 Bill Summary
	H4500 Bill Summary
	H4571 Bill Summary

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