SB2938 - MOSQUITO ABATE DIST-POWERS
Amends the Mosquito Abatement District Act. Provides that the board has powers relating to the surveillance and monitoring of ticks and the surveillance, monitoring, and extermination of mosquitoes and rats. Further amends the Mosquito Abatement District Act. Provides that the board of trustees of a mosquito abatement district, or its designee, for the limited purposes of cooperation with the Department of Public Health, shall conduct routine surveillance of Department-identified vectors to detect the presence of vector-borne diseases of public health significance. Limits the scope of the surveillance, and requires a mosquito abatement district, or its designee, to notify a forest preserve district or conservation district prior to or within 48 hours after accessing the respective forest preserve district's or conservation district's land for surveillance required by the Department. Requires the district to report to the Department of Public Health, in addition to the local certified public health department, the results of any positive mosquito, tick, or vector samples infected with arboviral or bacterial infections. Requires the report to include the number of vectors collected in the trapping device. Expands an illustrative list of arboviral or bacterial infections.