GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

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SENATE BILL 149

Short Title:  Pesticide Board/At-Large Members.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Jordan; and Carpenter.

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Referred to:  Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources.

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February 7, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE AN ENVIRONMENTALIST AND A FARMWORKER ADVOCATE TO BE APPOINTED TO THE NORTH CAROLINA PESTICIDE BOARD.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 143-436(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	The Pesticide Board shall consist of seven members, to be appointed by the Governor, as follows:
(1)	One member each representing the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and two members representing the North Carolina Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, one of whom shall be the State Health Director or his designee and one of whom shall represent an environmental protection agency.  The persons so selected may be either members of a policy board or departmental officials or employees.
(2)	A representative of the agricultural chemical industry.
(3)	A person directly engaged in agricultural production.
(4)	Two at-large members, from fields of endeavor other than those enumerated in subdivisions (2) and (3) of this subsection, one of whom represents nonprofit, public interest environmental organizations and is recognized as an environmentalist by the environmental community, and one of whom represents nonprofit, public interest farmworker advocacy organizations and is recognized as a farmworker advocate by the farmworker advocacy community."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification and applies to appointments to the North Carolina Pesticide Board made on or after that date.