The Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite Act of 2009 was introduced by GK Butterfield, a North Carolina congressman. The legislation apparently does not authorize new appropriations and does not create new government programs or bureaucracies.

It does establish a state bed bug inspection grant program which the states can use to help fund inspections of lodging facilities. It expands an existing program managed by the Department of Health and Human Services which provides funds to states for the control of rodents and cockroaches. The legislation would allow some of the funds to be used to destroy the odious bed bugs. It also directs the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate the public health implications of those little critters known as bed bugs.

Well, the legislation doesn’t provide a bed bug sniffing Beagle for every home but since it will allow the allocation of some already existing funds to be used to destroy bed bugs it sounds like a good addition to the fight against bed bugs. NJ, NY residents may want to contact their congressman and find out if he is going to support the legislation.

If you have bed bugs ask a NJ, NYC bed bugs pest control professional to eliminate them.