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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SCR 121
Author: Wieckowski (D)
Amended: 4/21/16
Vote: 21
SENATE FLOOR: 36-0, 4/11/16
AYES: Allen, Beall, Berryhill, Block, Cannella, De León,
Fuller, Gaines, Galgiani, Glazer, Hall, Hancock, Hernandez,
Hertzberg, Hill, Hueso, Huff, Jackson, Lara, Leno, Leyva, Liu,
McGuire, Mendoza, Mitchell, Monning, Moorlach, Morrell,
Nguyen, Nielsen, Pan, Pavley, Roth, Vidak, Wieckowski, Wolk
NO VOTE RECORDED: Anderson, Bates, Runner, Stone
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 76-0, 4/28/16 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT: West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control
Awareness Week
SOURCE: Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California
DIGEST: This resolution declares the week of April 17, 2016,
to April 23, 2016, inclusive, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito
and Vector Control Awareness Week in California.
Assembly Amendments make technical changes.
ANALYSIS: This resolution makes the following legislative
findings:
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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)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.
3)Professional mosquito and vector control based on scientific
research has made great advances in safely reducing mosquito
and vector populations and the diseases they transmit.
4)Established mosquito- and vector-borne diseases, such as
plague, Lyme disease, flea-borne typhus, and encephalitis, new
and emerging vector-borne diseases, such as hantavirus and
babesiosis, and travel-associated mosquito-borne disease
threats, such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, can cause
illness and sometimes death in California.
5)Mosquito and vector control districts throughout the State of
California work closely with the United States Environmental
Protection Agency and the State Department of Public Health to
reduce pesticide risks to humans, animals, and the environment
while protecting human health from mosquito- and vector-borne
diseases and nuisance attacks.
6)Educational programs have been developed to include schools,
civic groups, private industry, and government agencies, in
order to meet the public's need for information about West
Nile virus, other diseases, and mosquito and vector biology
and control.
7)Public awareness can result in 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
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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.
8)Public awareness can result in 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.
9)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 17, 2016, to April
23, 2016, inclusive, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector
Control Awareness Week in California.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:NoLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified4/29/16)
Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California (source)
Blood Centers of California
OPPOSITION: (Verified4/29/16)
None received
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ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 76-0, 4/28/16
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Arambula, Atkins, Baker,
Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke,
Calderon, Campos, Chang, Chau, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper,
Dababneh, Dahle, 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, Mayes, McCarty,
Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell,
Patterson, Quirk, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago,
Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber,
Wilk, Williams, Wood, Rendon
NO VOTE RECORDED: Chávez, Daly, Mathis, Olsen
Prepared by: Karen Chow / SFA / (916) 651-1520
4/29/16 12:39:28
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