Florida SB 518: Private Property Rights to Prune, Trim, and Remove Trees

Bill Text

518 
Products Liability Actions Under the Florida Pesticide Law 
2025-11-17T08:40:29Z 
Prohibiting a pesticide-related products liability action based on a manufacturer’s failure to warn if the pesticide’s label meets specified conditions, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 518 

 By Senator Truenow 

 13-00985-26 2026518__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to products liability actions under 
 3 the Florida Pesticide Law; creating s. 487.082, F.S.; 
 4 prohibiting a pesticide-related products liability 
 5 action based on a manufacturer’s failure to warn if 
 6 the pesticide’s label meets specified conditions; 
 7 providing an exception; providing an effective date. 
 8 
 9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 10 
 11 Section 1. Section 487.082, Florida Statutes, is created to 
 12 read: 
 13 487.082 Products liability actions.—A products liability 
 14 action under this part based on a failure to warn may not be 
 15 brought or maintained with respect to any pesticide registered 
 16 with the United States Environmental Protection Agency under the 
 17 Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), 7 
 18 U.S.C. ss. 136 et seq., if the label for such pesticide is: 
 19 (1) Approved by the United States Environmental Protection 
 20 Agency; 
 21 (2) Consistent with the most recent human health risk 
 22 assessment performed under FIFRA; or 
 23 (3) Consistent with the United States Environmental 
 24 Protection Agency’s carcinogenicity classification of the 
 25 pesticide under FIFRA. 
 26 
 27 However, this section does not shield from liability a 
 28 manufacturer that the United States Environmental Protection 
 29 Agency determines knowingly withheld, concealed, misrepresented, 
 30 or destroyed material information regarding the human health 
 31 risks or carcinogenicity of a pesticide in order to obtain or 
 32 maintain approval of the label for the pesticide by the United 
 33 States Environmental Protection Agency. 
 34 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.