As Reported by House Health, Retirement, and Aging Committee 1
123rd General Assembly 4
Regular Session Sub. H. B. No. 35 5
1999-2000 6
REPRESENTATIVES TAYLOR-WILLAMOWSKI-HAINES-VESPER-PADGETT 8
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To amend section 3707.15 of the Revised Code to 10
require a person that employs an illegal alien 12
with a contagious or infectious disease to pay to 13
the municipal corporation, township, or county in
which the alien is employed any expense caused by 14
the disease unless the person has complied with 16
the requirements of federal immigration law and
to eliminate the requirement that a person who 18
maintains a work camp pay to a municipal
corporation, township, or county where the camp 19
is located any expenses caused by contagious or 20
infectious diseases that originate or exist in 21
the camp. 22
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO: 24
Section 1. That section 3707.15 be amended to read as 28
follows: 29
Sec. 3707.15. AS USED IN THIS SECTION, "ALIEN" MEANS AN 39
INDIVIDUAL WHO IS NOT A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES. 40
Any person, partnership, or corporation that maintains a 42
work camp THAT EMPLOYS AN ALIEN WHO IS NOT LEGALLY PRESENT IN THE 44
UNITED STATES AND HAS A CONTAGIOUS OR INFECTIOUS DISEASE 46
CONTRACTED BEFORE OR DURING EMPLOYMENT shall pay to the municipal 47
corporation, township, or county in which such camp THE ALIEN is 48
maintained EMPLOYED any expense caused by THE contagious or 49
infectious diseases which originate or exist in such camp DISEASE 51
UNLESS THE PERSON DEMONSTRATES THE PERSON HAS COMPLIED WITH THE 52
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REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 101(a) OF THE "IMMIGRATION REFORM AND 54
CONTROL ACT OF 1986," 100 STAT. 3360, 8 U.S.C.A. 1324a, AS 58
AMENDED.
Section 2. That existing section 3707.15 of the Revised 62
Code is hereby repealed.