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112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 967 
To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 
and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to support 
efforts to control and eradicate bed bugs with respect to public health, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 9, 2011 
Mrs. SCHMIDT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade 
Act of 1990 and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
Rodenticide Act to support efforts to control and eradi-
cate bed bugs with respect to public health, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bed Bug Management, 
Prevention, and Research Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF RESEARCH PROGRAM TO CON-
TROL AND ERADICATE BED BUGS. 
(a) BED BUG RESEARCH PROGRAM.—Section 1672 
of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 
1990 (7 U.S.C. 5925) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (j) as sub-
section (k); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (h) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(j) BED BUG CONTROL.— 
‘‘(1) AUTHORIZATION AND USE OF GRANTS.— 
The Secretary, in consultation with the task force 
appointed under paragraph (2), shall award grants 
under this subsection for only for the following pur-
poses: 
‘‘(A) Developing more efficacious chemicals 
and chemical methods of detecting, preventing, 
and managing bed bugs. 
‘‘(B) Identifying or discovering affordable 
and effective methods of managing bed bugs, 
including basic and applied biology and dem-
onstration research projects. 
‘‘(2) TASK FORCE.— 
‘‘(A) ESTABLISHMENT.—Pursuant to sub-
section (b)(2)(C), the Secretary shall, not later 
than 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
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the Bed Bug Management, Prevention, and Re-
search Act, appoint a bed bug task force (re-
ferred to in this subsection as the ‘task force’) 
to assist the Secretary in awarding grants 
under this section. 
‘‘(B) COMPOSITION.—The task force shall 
be composed of members or representatives of 
the following: 
‘‘(i) The pest management industry. 
‘‘(ii) The hospitality industry (includ-
ing hotels, motels, and other forms of lodg-
ing or accommodation). 
‘‘(iii) The multi-family housing man-
agement industry. 
‘‘(iv) Public health organizations. 
‘‘(v) Any other group or industry the 
Secretary determines is significantly im-
pacted by bed bugs. 
‘‘(3) INITIAL GRANTS.— 
‘‘(A) REQUESTS
FOR
PROPOSALS.—The 
Secretary shall, not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of the Bed Bug Man-
agement, Prevention, and Research Act and in 
consultation with the task force, publish a re-
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quest for grant proposals for research projects 
for the purposes described in paragraph (1). 
‘‘(B) AWARD OF GRANTS.—Not later than 
180 days after the date of such publication, the 
Secretary shall— 
‘‘(i) evaluate such proposals in con-
sultation with the task force; and 
‘‘(ii) award grants to entities that 
submitted grant proposals for research 
projects the Secretary determines are meri-
torious for the purposes described in para-
graph (1). 
‘‘(C) NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.—The 
Secretary shall notify the task force of any 
award made under subparagraph (B) not later 
than 30 days after awarding such grant. 
‘‘(4) SUBSEQUENT GRANTS.— 
‘‘(A) EVALUATION OF INITIAL GRANTS.— 
The Secretary shall, in consultation with the 
task force, evaluate each research project con-
ducted under any grant awarded under para-
graph (3)(B). 
‘‘(B) AWARD OF GRANTS.—The Secretary 
shall, in consultation with the task force, award 
grants to fund additional research projects that 
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the Secretary determines to be promising or 
necessary based on the evaluation conducted 
under subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(C) NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.—The 
Secretary shall notify the task force of any 
award made under subparagraph (B) not later 
than 30 days after awarding such grant. 
‘‘(5) CONSULTATION AND COORDINATION.—To 
expedite the approval or registration under section 
3, section 18, or section 24 of the Federal Insecti-
cide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136a, 
136p, and 136v) of the methods identified or discov-
ered through research projects funded under this 
section, the Secretary shall consult and coordinate 
with the Administrator of the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency regarding— 
‘‘(A) the awarding of grants under this 
section; and 
‘‘(B) the evaluation of the results of such 
research projects.’’. 
(b) WAIVER OF MATCHING FUNDS REQUIREMENT.— 
Subsection (c)(2) of such section is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of subparagraph 
(A); 
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(2) by striking the period at the end of sub-
paragraph (B) and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph: 
‘‘(C) the project involves a pest that has 
been designated as a pest of public health sig-
nificance by the Environmental Protection 
Agency and the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention, as described in section 2(nn) of 
the 
Federal 
Insecticide, 
Fungicide, 
and 
Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136(nn)).’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Such section is 
further amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘through (i)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘through (j)’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ‘‘through 
(i)’’ and inserting ‘‘through (j)’’. 
SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUN-
GICIDE, AND RODENTICIDE ACT TO IMPROVE 
EFFORTS TO CONTROL AND ERADICATE BED 
BUGS. 
(a) INCLUSION OF BED BUGS IN DEFINITION OF 
VECTOR ORGANISMS.—Section 2(oo) of the Federal Insec-
ticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136(oo)) 
is amended by inserting ‘‘bed bugs,’’ after ‘‘cockroaches,’’. 
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(b) DEFINITION
OF ADVERSE EFFECTS.—Section 
2(bb) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136(bb)) is amended by adding 
before the period at the end of the last sentence the fol-
lowing: ‘‘, such as whether there are insufficient effica-
cious alternative registered pesticides available for the use, 
whether the lack of sufficient efficacious alternative reg-
istered pesticides will reasonably lead to the misuse of 
other pesticides or other inappropriate pest management 
strategies that pose risks to the environment or human 
health, and whether the registration or approval of use 
of the public health pesticide will play a significant part 
in managing pest resistance’’. 
(c) EFFICACY DATA FOR EXEMPTED PESTICIDES.— 
Section 25(b) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136w(b)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new sentences: ‘‘Notwithstanding 
the exemption of a pesticide under this subsection, the Ad-
ministrator shall require the submission of efficacy data 
(and evaluate such data) if the pesticide is labeled for or 
proposed to be labeled for the control of a pest of public 
health significance. The Administrator shall not permit 
the sale or distribution of any product that is marketed, 
distributed, or sold with a claim that such product will 
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control a public health pest if the efficacy data submitted 
under this subsection does not support such claim.’’. 
(d) BED BUG PREVENTION AND MITIGATION PILOT 
PROGRAM.—The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
Rodenticide Act is amended by inserting after section 20 
(7 U.S.C. 136r) the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 20A. BED BUG PREVENTION AND MITIGATION PILOT 
PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) GRANT AUTHORITY.—Using funds appropriated 
to carry out this Act, the Administrator shall award grants 
to three State agencies whose plans have been approved 
by the Administrator in accordance with the requirements 
of section 11 for the purposes of conducting a pilot pro-
gram under which political subdivisions of the State and 
housing authorities in the State use the grant funds to 
supplement on-going bed bug prevention and mitigation 
activities. At least one of the three grants shall be awarded 
to one such State agency that, before November 1, 2009, 
submitted a public health exemption request under section 
18, which proposed a use of a pesticide to control bed 
bugs, but which was voluntarily canceled under section 
6(f). 
‘‘(b) DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS.—As a condition on 
the receipt of the grant under subsection (a), the recipient 
State agency, working in conjunction with the State de-
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partment of health, shall agree to distribute the grant 
funds to political subdivisions and housing authorities— 
‘‘(1) addressing persistent bed bug infestations; 
and 
‘‘(2) whose residents lack the financial re-
sources to adequately mitigate bed bug infestations 
without assistance. 
‘‘(c) TIME FOR AWARD AND DISTRIBUTION.—The 
grants under subsection (a) for a fiscal year shall be 
awarded within 180 days after the appropriation of funds 
for that fiscal year to carry out this Act. Recipient State 
agencies shall begin disseminating grants within 120 days 
receiving the grant funds. 
‘‘(d) USE OF FUNDS.—Grant funds may be used— 
‘‘(1) to retain commercial applicators to per-
form bed bug prevention and mitigation activities 
that are proven to effectively control bed bugs; 
‘‘(2) to purchase and distribute mattress covers; 
‘‘(3) to conduct bed bug monitoring activities; 
and 
‘‘(4) to treat used mattresses and furniture 
using methods proven to control all life stages of bed 
bugs. 
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‘‘(e) DATA COLLECTION.—After the end of fiscal year 
2016, the Administrator shall collect from the recipient 
State agencies the following data: 
‘‘(1) The number of political subdivisions and 
housing authorities receiving grant funds and total 
funds awarded to each political subdivision and 
housing authority. 
‘‘(2) The criteria used to award funds to such 
political subdivisions and housing authorities. 
‘‘(3) The success achieved in reducing bed bug 
infestation and the methods used to manage bed bug 
infestation. 
‘‘(4) Documented results of intervention efforts 
with some measurement of infestation rates both be-
fore and after intervention. 
‘‘(f) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than Janu-
ary 1, 2017, the Administrator shall submit to Congress 
a report setting forth the data collected under subsection 
(e). 
‘‘(g) EXPIRATION
OF
GRANT
AUTHORITY.—No 
grants may be made under subsection (a) after September 
30, 2017.’’. 
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