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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
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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.
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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
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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
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