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          Date of Hearing:   May 13, 2009

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Kevin De Leon, Chair

                    AB 1069 (Monning) - As Amended:  May 4, 2009 

          Policy Committee:                              AgricultureVote:5  
          - 3

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires that existing telephone hotlines, used for  
          reporting adverse health affects associated with aerial  
          pesticide spraying, be toll free, staffed by public health  
          personnel knowledgeable about the pesticide being sprayed, and  
          that all health complaints be entered into a database. 

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Currently, the California Department of Food and Agriculture  
          (CDFA) has a $650,000 contract with Office of Environmental  
          Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to carryout the activities,  
          including a toll-free health hotline, as described in the bill.  
          OEHHA's contract for the toll-free health hotline is $200,000.  
          Therefore, there are no new costs associated with this  
          legislation. 

           COMMENTS  

           Rationale  . The author believes that more clarity is needed in  
          current law (AB 2763, Laird; Statutes of 2008), regarding the  
          hotline when pest eradication efforts are undertaken.  AB 1069  
          does this by further specifying the requirements of the hotline  
          operators and their duties. Specifically, this bill codifies  
          CDFA's current practice of staffing the toll free hotline with  
          public health personnel and requiring the hotline staff to enter  
          health complaints into an existing database. 



           Analysis Prepared by  :    Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916)  








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