Please mark your calendars. The hearing will be held on Tuesday, February 24 at 1 p.m. It’s a joint hearing of the Consumer Affairs, Health and Sanitation Committees on the following bills:
The time is right to contact the Speaker of the New York City Council, Christine Quinn, and ask for her support of policy initiatives against the spread of bed bugs in our city. We want to ask you to continue … Continue reading
We are pleased that Council Member Gale Brewer is acknowledged by The New York Times in today’s editorial as the driving force in an effort to get bed bug legislation on the books in our city—an effort that began in … Continue reading
Council Member Jessica Lappin joined the sponsors of Intro 873, the new bed bug education bill in the New York City Council.
You can listen to it here: Bedbug Victims Hope City Will Take Action in 2009. The bed bug victims part means us. * To read about Intro 873 click here.
We sent letters to the Chair and members of the New York City Council Committee on Health. You can read the letter here. We’ll present additional perspectives and other sets of facts (there are so many problems and challenges to … Continue reading
Via PolitickerNJ, the New Jersey Assembly bill which would make New Jersey landlords financially responsible for bed bug eradication in multi-unit buildings has been referred to the Speaker.
[We lost data over the weekend and some pages, posts and comments were lost. This was posted December 6.] We will be monitoring and updating developments on Intro 873, the bill introduced in the New York City Council on November … Continue reading
Note: Check updates on our efforts on Intro 873 here. I was about to write something that looked back and puzzled over how bed bug bills (both the bold and the timid) go to the Consumer Affairs Committee to die, … Continue reading
We like Nobugs’ take on the recent struggles of New Jersey lawmakers to define an acceptable answer to the question of who should pay for bed bug treatments. Continue reading