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PUBLIC LAW 108–75—AUG. 15, 2003

Public Law 108–75 108th Congress An Act Aug. 15, 2003 [S. 1015] Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act. 42 USC 201 note.

To authorize grants through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for mosquito control programs to prevent mosquito-borne diseases, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act’’. SEC. 2. GRANTS REGARDING PREVENTION OF MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES.

42 USC 247b–20.

42 USC 247b–21.

Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 243 et seq.), as amended by section 4 of Public Law 107–84 and section 312 of Public Law 107–188, is amended— (1) by transferring section 317R from the current placement of the section and inserting the section after section 317Q; and (2) by inserting after section 317R (as so transferred) the following: ‘‘SEC. 317S. MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES; COORDINATION GRANTS TO STATES; ASSESSMENT AND CONTROL GRANTS TO POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS.

‘‘(a) COORDINATION GRANTS TO STATES; ASSESSMENT GRANTS TO POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS.— ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—With respect to mosquito control programs to prevent and control mosquito-borne diseases (referred to in this section as ‘control programs’), the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may make grants to States for the purpose of— ‘‘(A) coordinating control programs in the State involved; and ‘‘(B) assisting such State in making grants to political subdivisions of the State to conduct assessments to determine the immediate needs in such subdivisions for control programs, and to develop, on the basis of such assessments, plans for carrying out control programs in the subdivisions. ‘‘(2) PREFERENCE IN MAKING GRANTS.—In making grants under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall give preference to States that have one or more political subdivisions with an incidence, prevalence, or high risk of mosquito-borne disease, or a population of infected mosquitoes, that is substantial relative to political subdivisions in other States.

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