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.