The Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite Act of 2009 also would require public housing agencies to submit bedbug inspection plans to the federal government. It would add bedbugs to a rodent and cockroach program in the Department of Health and Human Services.

The House Committee on Idiomatic Expressions is also set to hear testimony on the Close But No Cigar Act, the Different Strokes For Different Folks Act, and the Mind Your Own Beeswax Act.