INSECTS

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of Commerce: establish a grant program to assist States in inspecting hotel rooms for bed bugs (see H.R. 2248), H5168 [5MY]

Dept. of HHS: establish a Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee (see H.R. 1179), H2834 [25FE]

———establish the Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee (see S. 1352), S7070 [25JN]

EPA: implement integrated pest management systems to minimize pesticide use in schools and provide parents and employees with notices of such use (see H.R. 4159), H13385 [1DE]

Foreign trade: require report on invasive agricultural pests and diseases and sanitary and phytosanitary barriers to trade before beginning negotiations to enter into a free trade agreement (see S. 594), S3074 [12MR]

Forest Service: reduce risk of catastrophic wildfire through the facilitation of insect and disease infestation treatment of national forests and adjacent lands (see H.R. 4398), H15501 [16DE]

———reduce risk of catastrophic wildfire through the facilitation of insect and disease infestation treatment of national forests and adjacents lands (see S. 2798), S11492 [18NO]

Petitions and memorials

Texas: fever tick eradication in South Texas, E2154 [31JY]

Remarks in House

Fire prevention: declare areas where insect infestation has created an extreme risk for wildfire eligible for Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Fund funding, H4036 [26MR]

———include containment activities in response to insect infestation in the supplemental funding source for catastrophic emergency wildland fire suppression activities, H4033 [26MR]

———require the cohesive wildland fire management strategy to include a system to study effects of invasive species and implement fire safety programs focused on eradication of such species, H4036, H4037 [26MR]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of Agriculture: add New York to list of States combating infestation of trees with emerald ash borer, S8727, S8728 [4AU]

Dept. of HHS: establish the Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee (S. 1352), S7076 [25JN]

Foreign trade: require report on invasive agricultural pests and diseases and sanitary and phytosanitary barriers to trade before beginning negotiations to enter into a free trade agreement (S. 594), S3088 [12MR]

Forest Service: reduce risk of catastrophic wildfire through the facilitation of insect and disease infestation treatment of national forests and adjacents lands (S. 2798), S11496 [18NO]

Summaries

National Forest Insect and Disease Emergency Act (S. 2798), S11498 [18NO]

Texts of

S. 594, Agriculture Smart Trade Act, S3089 [12MR]

S. 2798, National Forest Insect and Disease Emergency Act, S11497 [18NO]