BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | ACR 51| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- THIRD READING Bill No: ACR 51 Author: Wood (D) Introduced:3/23/15 Vote: 21 ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 79-0, 4/16/15 (Consent) - See last page for vote SUBJECT: West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week SOURCE: Mosquito Vector Control Association of California DIGEST: This resolution declares the week of April 19, 2015, through April 25, 2015, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week. ANALYSIS: This resolution makes the following legislative findings: 1)West Nile virus is a mosquito-borne disease that can result in debilitating cases of meningitis and encephalitis and death to humans, horses, avian species, and other wildlife. 2)In 2014, West Nile virus resulted in 29 human deaths in California, a 93% increase over 2013, and 798 individual cases in 31 counties, nearly doubling the number of cases during 2013, of which 543 developed neuroinvasive disease. The California Department of Public Health and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predict West Nile virus ACR 51 Page 2 will again pose a public health threat in California in 2015. 3)Adequately funded mosquito and vector control, disease surveillance, and public awareness programs, coupled with best management practices on public and private lands, are the best ways to prevent outbreaks of West Nile virus and other diseases borne by mosquitoes and other vectors. 4)The public's awareness of the health benefits associated with safe, professionally applied mosquito and vector control methods will support these efforts, as well as motivate the state and the public to eliminate mosquito and vector breeding sites on public and private property. 5)Public awareness can result in: (a) reduced production of mosquitoes and other vectors on residential, commercial, and public lands by responsible parties, avoidance of the bites of mosquitoes and other vectors when the risk of West Nile virus and other disease transmission is high, detection of human cases of mosquito- and vector-borne diseases that may otherwise be misdiagnosed for lack of appropriate laboratory testing, and the formation of mosquito or vector control agencies where needed; and (b) action to provide adequate funding for existing mosquito and vector control agencies or to create control agencies in areas where there are no existing controls. 6)West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week will increase the public's awareness of the threat of West Nile virus and other diseases and the activities of the various mosquito and vector research and control agencies working to minimize the health threat within California, and will highlight the educational programs currently available. This resolution declares the week of April 19, 2015, through April 25, 2015, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week. ACR 51 Page 3 Prior Legislation ACR 132 (Eggman, Resolution Chapter 48, Statutes of 2014) declared the week of April 20, 2014, through April 26, 2014, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week. ACR 21 (Salas, Resolution Chapter 17, Statutes of 2013) declared the week of April 21, 2013, through April 27, 2013, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week. FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.:NoLocal: No SUPPORT: (Verified4/20/15) Mosquito Vector Control Association of California (source) Blood Centers of California OPPOSITION: (Verified4/20/15) None received ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 79-0, 4/16/15 ACR 51 Page 4 AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen, Patterson, Perea, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, Wood, Atkins NO VOTE RECORDED: Quirk Prepared by: Karen Chow / SFA / (916) 651-1520 4/22/15 16:20:24 **** END ****