Maine's governor will be able to declare a Mosquito State of Emergency if a bill heard Thursday by the Maine legislature's Agriculture Conservation and Forestry committee passes.
Listen to a 23 minute mp3 of the presentation, questions and testimony on LD 292 An Act To Protect the Public Health from Mosquito-borne Diseases.
MOFGA and other healthy Maine ecology interests spoke against the bill.
LD 292 Summary
"This bill authorizes the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to
conduct appropriate mosquito-control activities in response to mosquito-borne
disease public health threats. In addition, the bill authorizes municipalities
to cooperate in controlling mosquitoes through the formation of mosquito-control
districts.
It establishes the Maine Mosquito Control Fund to provide funding for
mosquito-control activities. Finally, the bill authorizes the Commissioner of
Health and Human Services to declare a mosquito-borne disease public health
threat"
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