HB 2476 is the latest bill brought to a state house over the past two years by the pharmaceutical and German chemical giant Bayer, as part of Bayer’s efforts to secure product liability shields for all pesticide manufacturers, foreign and domestic, for all 57,000 EPA registered pesticide products. Under federal and state law, the term “pesticide” includes all herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, and more, that are used not just in agriculture, but homes, schools, offices, on playgrounds and parks and golf courses.

Everyone, everywhere, is exposed to these products.

HB 2476 impacts every single Kansan.

This bill has been introduced in legislatures across the country and has strong lobbyist support. We need the grassroots to show up to stop this bill!

ACT NOW TO OPPOSE HB 2476: 

Contact the Senate and tell them to vote NO on HB2476!

Find contact information here.

Sample Script:

I’m calling because I am concerned about the implications of HB2476, a bill about pesticide labeling requirements. This bill will hand all labeling requirements over to the EPA, removing local Kansas control and autonomy. It will modify the Kansas Agricultural Chemicals Act and eliminate the basis for failure-to-warn claims in Kansas courts, leaving no legal recourse for Kansans harmed by these products. This bill will benefit big chemical companies like Bayer, ChemChina, and other multinational chemical manufacturers with global litigation exposure while your constituents, Kansas families, Kansas workers, and Kansas taxpayers, bear the risk. Pesticides include products that are used not just in agriculture, but homes, schools, offices, on playgrounds and parks and golf courses. These products affect all Kansans. Please protect Kansans and vote no on HB2476.

Sample Email:

Dear [Legislator],

As a Kansas resident, I am concerned about the implications of HB2476, a bill concerning pesticide labeling requirements. Pesticides include all herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, and more, that are used not just in agriculture, but homes, schools, offices, on playgrounds and parks and golf courses. All Kansans are exposed to these products, including me and you. 

I’m concerned because HB 2476 modifies the Kansas Agricultural Chemicals Act (K.S.A. 2-2201 et seq.) by treating EPA-approved pesticide labels as automatically meeting all state warning or labeling requirements, including any common-law duty to warn — eliminating the basis for failure-to-warn claims in Kansas courts.

That means if a person alleges harm and claims the label was inadequate, the label is deemed adequate under Kansas law, because the bill says so. If Kansas law says the warning was legally sufficient, the case gets dismissed — leaving no legal recourse for Kansans harmed by these products.

This bill will benefit big chemical companies like Bayer, ChemChina, and other multinational chemical manufacturers with global litigation exposure while your constituents, Kansas families, Kansas workers, and Kansas taxpayers, bear the risk. 

Given these concerns, I urge you to vote no on HB2476.

Sincerely, 

[Your Name]

[City, KS]

Consider attaching this document, explaining in depth how HB2476 creates a liability shield, to your email.