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          Date of Hearing:   April 22, 2010

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                                Nancy Skinner, Chair
                 ACR 135 (Smyth) - As Introduced:  February 19, 2010
           
          SUBJECT  :   West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control  
          Awareness Week.

           SUMMARY  :   Declares April 26 through April 30, 2010, as West  
          Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week.   
          Specifically,  this resolution  makes the following legislative  
          findings:  

          1)Mosquitoes and other vectors, including but not limited to  
            ticks, Africanized honeybees, rats, fleas, and flies, continue  
            to be a source of human suffering, illness, death and a public  
            nuisance in California and around the world.

          2)The State Department of Public Health and the Centers for  
            Disease Control and Prevention predict West Nile virus will  
            again pose a grave public health threat in California in 2010;  
            and the Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California  
            has designated the week of April 26 through April 30, 2010, as  
            West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness  
            Week.

          3)The public's awareness of the health benefits associated with  
            safe, professionally applied mosquito and vector control  
            methods will support efforts to reduce pesticide risk, as well  
            as, motivate the public to eliminate mosquito and vector  
            breeding sites on private, commercial and public lands.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   None

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California (MVCAC)

           Opposition 
           
          None on file.









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          Analysis Prepared by  :    Anna McCabe / RLS. / (916) 319-2800