Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act
Latest action · Oct 3, 2002 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 631.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 22, 2002
- Passed HouseOct 1, 2002
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Allows grants for control programs only to localities that have: (1) conducted an assessment of the needs for a program, with such assessment including an entomological survey of potential mosquito breeding areas; and (2) developed, based on the assessment, a plan for carrying out a control program. Requires each locality receiving a grant for a control program to make available matching funds in an amount not less than 1/3 of the cost of the program. Allows the Secretary to waive the matching requirement in the case of extraordinary economic conditions in a locality. Requires a locality receiving a grant to submit a report to the Secretary and to the State in which the locality is located describing the control program and its effectiveness. Limits the amount of a grant for a control program to a maximum of $100,000 for one year, and prohibits a locality from receiving more than one such grant.
Permits the Secretary, acting through the Director, to make grants, not to exceed $10,000 for one year, to localities for conducting assessments and plans for control programs. Limits the number of such grants a locality may receive to one.
Allows the Secretary, acting through the Director, to make grants to States for the purpose of coordinating control programs, with preference for States that have one or more localities with high incidences of mosquito-borne disease or with substantial populations of infected mosquitoes.
Requires States receiving grants to: (1) have developed, or to have agreed to develop, a plan for coordinating control programs in the State which takes into account any assessments or plans for control programs that have been conducted or developed in the State; (2) agree to monitor control programs in the State to ensure they are carried out in accordance with such plan; and (3) submit a report to the Secretary describing the activities of the State under the grant and evaluating whether the control programs of localities were effectively coordinated with each other. Limits such a grant to a maximum of $10,000 for one year, and prohibits a State from receiving more than one grant.
Permits the Secretary to provide training and technical assistance to localities with respect to the planning, development, and operation of control programs and assessments and plans, either directly or through award of grants or contracts to public and private entities.
Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 3) Requires the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to conduct or support research into methods to control the population of insects that transmit dangerous diseases to humans.
Cosponsors 48
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 22, 2002 to Sep 9, 2002; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-LA | W. J. (Billy) Tauzin | Original | May 22, 2002 |
| D-MI | John D. Dingell | May 23, 2002 | |
| R-LA | John Cooksey | Jun 4, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Jun 13, 2002 | |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | Jun 13, 2002 | |
| R-LA | David Vitter | Jun 13, 2002 | |
| D-FL | Karen L. Thurman | Jun 13, 2002 | |
| R-NJ | Marge Roukema | Jun 13, 2002 | |
| D-HI | Patsy T. Mink | Jun 13, 2002 | |
| R-LA | Richard H. Baker | Jun 13, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Steve Israel | Jun 13, 2002 | |
| R-NJ | Christopher H. Smith | Jun 20, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Joseph Crowley | Jun 20, 2002 | |
| R-FL | Mark Foley | Jun 20, 2002 | |
| R-LA | Jim McCrery | Jun 21, 2002 | |
| D-TX | Gene Green | Jun 26, 2002 | |
| D-PA | Michael F. Doyle | Jun 26, 2002 | |
| D-AS | Eni F. H. Faleomavaega | Jun 27, 2002 | |
| D-TN | Harold E. Ford Jr. | Jun 27, 2002 | |
| D-MD | Albert Russell Wynn | Jul 9, 2002 | |
| D-TN | Bart Gordon | Jul 9, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Gary L. Ackerman | Jul 9, 2002 | |
| D-MI | Lynn N. Rivers | Jul 9, 2002 | |
| R-TX | Ralph M. Hall | Jul 9, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Jul 15, 2002 | |
| D-AR | Marion Berry | Jul 16, 2002 | |
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Jul 18, 2002 | |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Jul 18, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Jul 26, 2002 | |
| R-MD | Constance A. Morella | Jul 26, 2002 | |
| D-CT | John B. Larson | Jul 26, 2002 | |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| R-MS | Charles W. "Chip" Pickering | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| D-ND | Earl Pomeroy | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| D-MO | Karen McCarthy | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| D-TX | Ken Bentsen | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| R-MN | Mark R. Kennedy | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| R-NY | Peter T. King | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| R-NC | Robin Hayes | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| D-MS | Ronnie Shows | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| D-TX | Jim Turner | Sep 9, 2002 | |
| R-IL | John Shimkus | Sep 9, 2002 | |
| D-TX | Martin Frost | Sep 9, 2002 | |
| D-AR | Mike Ross | Sep 9, 2002 | |
| D-CT | Rosa L. DeLauro | Sep 9, 2002 | |
| R-NY | Vito Fossella | Sep 9, 2002 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred May 22, 2002Markup Sep 5, 2002Reported Sep 13, 2002 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jun 26, 2002 |
Actions 14
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 3, 2002Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 631.
- Oct 2, 2002Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
- Oct 1, 2002Mr. Tauzin moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Oct 1, 2002Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6789-6793)
- Oct 1, 2002DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4793.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S9860 | Harry Reid D-NV | Oct 2, 2002 |
| House · Senate | Debate and remarks H6785, H6789–H6793, S9681Text printed H6789 | Christopher John D-LA, Danny K. Davis D-IL, Fred Upton R-MI, John Boozman R-AR, John D. Dingell D-MI, John Shimkus R-IL, Ken Bentsen D-TX, Mark E. Souder R-IN, Mary L. Landrieu D-LA, Michael Bilirakis R-FL, Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX, W. J. (Billy) Tauzin D-LA | Oct 1, 2002 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2
- Sep 10, 2002H.R. 4793, Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on September 5, 2002</p>
- Sep 10, 2002H.R. 4793, Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health ActCost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on September 5, 2002
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 107-233 | RESPONDING TO WEST NILE VIRUS: PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATIONS AND FEDERAL RESPONSE106 pages | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Oct 3, 2002 |
Titles 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To authorize grants through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for mosquito control programs to prevent mosquito-borne diseases.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act
- Short Titles as Reported to House
- Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act
- Short Titles as Passed House
- Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Animals
- Economics and Public Finance
- Entomological research
- Equipment and supplies
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to medical research
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Health
- Health planning
- Insect control
- Medical laboratories
- Medical research
- Mosquitoes
- Parasitic diseases
- Preventive medicine
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Surveys
- Virus diseases
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 3, 2002Placed on Calendar Senate
- Oct 1, 2002Engrossed in House
- Sep 13, 2002Reported in House
- May 22, 2002Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
