Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2003
Latest action · Sep 25, 2003 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedSep 25, 2003
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to revise registration and maintenance fee requirements for pesticides. (Fees collected are used to help defray the administrative costs of pesticide regulation.)
Modifies certain timing requirements as they concern the submission of product-specific data and other regulatory action.
Increases and then decreases the maximum amount of maintenance fees payable by registrants, including small businesses, through FY 2008, with the highest levels of fees occurring during FY 2005 and 2006.
Extends the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) authority to collect maintenance, but not tolerance, fees through FY 2008. (Maintenance fees are assessed on already registered or reregistered pesticides; tolerance fees are assessed on pesticides used on food or animal feed which are subject to more stringent regulatory requirements.)
Directs the Administrator of the EPA to assess and collect covered pesticide registration service fees for applications submitted from FY 2004 onward. (Registration fees would apply to new pesticide applications only.) Provides transitional requirements for pending applications.
Sets forth the Administrator's responsibilities concerning the publication and revision of the schedule of registration service fees, including a mandatory increase by FY 2006.
Permits the waiver or reduction of these fees for minor uses or small businesses. Provides for partial fee refunds when an application is withdrawn or at the Administrator's discretion.
Establishes the Pesticide Registration Fund in the Treasury to collect registration fees. Limits the use of these funds to associated regulatory costs, except for limited earmarks for worker protection and the review of new inert ingredients.
Makes these funds available only to the extent provided in advance through appropriations acts. Prohibits the assessment of registration fees in any year where the amount appropriated for the Office of Pesticide Programs of the EPA is less than the amount appropriated for that Office for FY 2002.
Addresses several issues concerning decision time review periods, including the goal of reducing existing periods, schedule publication requirements, determining their start, and how they are impacted by waiver or reduction requests.
Provides for judicial review if the Administrator fails to make a determination on an application before the expiration of the applicable decision time review period.
Terminates the registration service fee after FY 2010, with a phase out occuring during the final two years.
Cosponsors 21
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 25, 2003 to Oct 31, 2003; 14 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NE | Ben Nelson | Original | Sep 25, 2003 |
| D-WI | Herb Kohl | Original | Sep 25, 2003 |
| R-MO | Jim Talent | Original | Sep 25, 2003 |
| D-LA | John B. Breaux | Original | Sep 25, 2003 |
| D-ND | Kent Conrad | Original | Sep 25, 2003 |
| R-ID | Larry E. Craig | Original | Sep 25, 2003 |
| D-LA | Mary L. Landrieu | Original | Sep 25, 2003 |
| R-ID | Mike Crapo | Original | Sep 25, 2003 |
| R-MN | Norm Coleman | Original | Sep 25, 2003 |
| R-KS | Pat Roberts | Original | Sep 25, 2003 |
| R-IN | Richard G. Lugar | Original | Sep 25, 2003 |
| R-GA | Saxby Chambliss | Original | Sep 25, 2003 |
| D-IA | Tom Harkin | Original | Sep 25, 2003 |
| D-GA | Zell Miller | Original | Sep 25, 2003 |
| D-VT | Patrick J. Leahy | Sep 30, 2003 | |
| R-CO | Wayne Allard | Oct 16, 2003 | |
| R-MT | Conrad R. Burns | Oct 22, 2003 | |
| D-AR | Blanche L. Lincoln | Oct 23, 2003 | |
| R-IL | Peter Fitzgerald | Oct 27, 2003 | |
| R-NM | Pete V. Domenici | Oct 30, 2003 | |
| D-WI | Russell D. Feingold | Oct 31, 2003 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee | Referred Sep 25, 2003 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 25, 2003Introduced in Senate
- Sep 25, 2003Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL32218 | Pesticide Registration and Tolerance Fees: An Overview | Report | Nov 5, 2013 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 3188 | Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2003 | Identical bill | Oct 15, 2003 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to provide for the enhanced review of covered pesticide products, to authorize fees for certain pesticide products, and to extend and improve the collection of maintenance fees.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2003
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Accounting
- Administrative fees
- Administrative remedies
- Affiliated corporations
- Agricultural labor
- Agriculture and Food
- Auditing
- Commerce
- Computer software
- Computers
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Cost effectiveness
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic government information
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Federal employees
- Fees
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Financial statements
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government procurement
- Government publicity
- Government trust funds
- Health
- Internet
- Judicial review
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Licenses
- Occupational health and safety
- Pesticide pollution
- Pesticide regulation
- Pesticide residues
- Pesticides
- Recruiting of employees
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Small business
- Web sites
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 25, 2003Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.