As Reconsidered and Passed by the Senate               1            

123rd General Assembly                                             4            

   Regular Session                          Am. Sub. H. B. No. 35  5            

      1999-2000                                                    6            


        REPRESENTATIVES TAYLOR-WILLAMOWSKI-HAINES-VESPER-          8            

    PADGETT-DAMSCHRODER-SENATORS ARMBRUSTER-BLESSING-CARNES-       9            

 DRAKE-GARDNER-LATTA-MUMPER-NEIN-OELSLAGER-SCHAFRATH-WACHTMANN-    10           

                  WATTS-WHITE-SPADA-ARMBRUSTER                     11           


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             To amend section 3707.15 of the Revised Code to       15           

                require a person that employs an illegal alien     17           

                with a contagious or infectious disease to pay to  18           

                the municipal corporation, township, or county in               

                which the alien is employed any expense caused by  19           

                the disease unless the person has complied with    21           

                the requirements of federal immigration law, to                 

                eliminate the requirement that a person that       23           

                maintains a work camp pay to a municipal                        

                corporation, township, or county where the camp    24           

                is located any expenses caused by contagious or    25           

                infectious diseases that originate or exist in     26           

                the camp, and to declare an emergency.             27           




BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:        29           

      Section 1.  That section 3707.15 of the Revised Code be      32           

amended to read as follows:                                        34           

      Sec. 3707.15.  AS USED IN THIS SECTION, "ALIEN" MEANS AN     44           

INDIVIDUAL WHO IS NOT A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES.              45           

      Any person, partnership, or corporation that maintains a     47           

work camp THAT EMPLOYS AN ALIEN WHO IS NOT LEGALLY PRESENT IN THE  49           

UNITED STATES AND HAS A CONTAGIOUS OR INFECTIOUS DISEASE           51           

CONTRACTED BEFORE OR DURING EMPLOYMENT shall pay to the municipal  52           

corporation, township, or county in which such camp THE ALIEN is   53           

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maintained EMPLOYED any expense caused by THE contagious or        54           

infectious diseases which originate or exist in such camp          55           

DISEASE.  AN EMPLOYER IS NOT SUBJECT TO THIS SECTION IF THE        56           

EMPLOYER DEMONSTRATES THAT THE ALIEN WAS EMPLOYED IN COMPLIANCE    57           

WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 101(a) OF THE "IMMIGRATION        58           

REFORM AND CONTROL ACT OF 1986," 100 STAT. 3360, 8 U.S.C.A.        60           

1324a, AS AMENDED, UNLESS THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT THE EMPLOYER      61           

COMPLIED WITH THE ACT KNOWING THAT THE ALIEN IS NOT LEGALLY        62           

PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES.                                      63           

      Section 2.  That existing section 3707.15 of the Revised     67           

Code is hereby repealed.                                                        

      Section 3.   This act is hereby declared to be an emergency  69           

measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public     70           

peace, health, and safety.  The reason for such necessity is that  71           

the greatest impact of this act will occur during each summer's    72           

agricultural growing season, and for 1999, that growing season is  73           

now upon us.  Therefore, this act shall go into immediate effect.