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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A B I L L
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Code is hereby repealed.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.