As Reported by the Senate Health, Human Services           1            

                       and Aging Committee                         2            

123rd General Assembly                                             5            

   Regular Session                          Am. Sub. H. B. No. 35  6            

      1999-2000                                                    7            


        REPRESENTATIVES TAYLOR-WILLAMOWSKI-HAINES-VESPER-          9            

             PADGETT-DAMSCHRODER-SENATOR ARMBRUSTER                10           


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                          A   B I L L                                           

             To amend section 3707.15 of the Revised Code to       14           

                require a person that employs an illegal alien     16           

                with a contagious or infectious disease to pay to  17           

                the municipal corporation, township, or county in               

                which the alien is employed any expense caused by  18           

                the disease unless the person has complied with    20           

                the requirements of federal immigration law, to                 

                eliminate the requirement that a person that       22           

                maintains a work camp pay to a municipal                        

                corporation, township, or county where the camp    23           

                is located any expenses caused by contagious or    24           

                infectious diseases that originate or exist in     25           

                the camp, and to declare an emergency.             26           




BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:        28           

      Section 1.  That section 3707.15 of the Revised Code be      31           

amended to read as follows:                                        33           

      Sec. 3707.15.  AS USED IN THIS SECTION, "ALIEN" MEANS AN     43           

INDIVIDUAL WHO IS NOT A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES.              44           

      Any person, partnership, or corporation that maintains a     46           

work camp THAT EMPLOYS AN ALIEN WHO IS NOT LEGALLY PRESENT IN THE  48           

UNITED STATES AND HAS A CONTAGIOUS OR INFECTIOUS DISEASE           50           

CONTRACTED BEFORE OR DURING EMPLOYMENT shall pay to the municipal  51           

corporation, township, or county in which such camp THE ALIEN is   52           

maintained EMPLOYED any expense caused by THE contagious or        53           

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infectious diseases which originate or exist in such camp DISEASE  55           

UNLESS THE PERSON DEMONSTRATES THE PERSON HAS COMPLIED WITH THE    56           

REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 101(a) OF THE "IMMIGRATION REFORM AND      58           

CONTROL ACT OF 1986," 100 STAT. 3360, 8 U.S.C.A. 1324a, AS         62           

AMENDED.                                                                        

      Section 2.  That existing section 3707.15 of the Revised     66           

Code is hereby repealed.                                                        

      Section 3.   This act is hereby declared to be an emergency  68           

measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public     69           

peace, health, and safety.  The reason for such necessity is that  70           

the greatest impact of this act will occur during each summer's    71           

agricultural growing season, and for 1999, that growing season is  72           

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