Legislature falters as California becomes national hot spot for West Nile virus.

Comments on the spread of the West Nile virus in California. Efforts of lawmakers to ensure that local mosquito abatement programs received the funding they need; Request for the federal government to make emergency grants available to the state immediately to help quell the outbreak; Agreement of Government Arnold Schwarzenegger and members of the Legislature to exempt local mosquito abatement and vector control districts from fund shifts that could have cost them $13 million for the fiscal year.