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          Date of Hearing:   April 19, 2012

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                                Nancy Skinner, Chair
                  ACR 137 (Atkins) - As Introduced:  March 21, 2012
           
          SUBJECT  :   West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control 
          Awareness Week.

           SUMMARY  :  Declares April 22 through April 28, 2012, 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 2012; 
            and the Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California 
            has designated the week of April 22 through April 28, 2012, 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 
           
          None on file.
           
          Opposition 
           
          None on file.









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