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Code is hereby repealed.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.