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To enact sections 3701.137 and 3707.012 of the | 1 |
Revised Code to establish the Bed Bug Awareness, | 2 |
Education, and Prevention Program and to require | 3 |
boards of health to adopt vermin control policies | 4 |
under which bedbug infestations are treated in the | 5 |
same manner as other infestations and to make an | 6 |
appropriation. | 7 |
Section 1. That sections 3701.137 and 3707.012 of the Revised | 8 |
Code be enacted to read as follows: | 9 |
Sec. 3701.137. (A) As used in this section: | 10 |
(1) "Hotel" means every establishment kept, used, maintained, | 11 |
advertised, or held out to the public as a place where sleeping | 12 |
accommodations are offered to guests, in which five or more rooms | 13 |
are used for the accommodation of such guests, whether the rooms | 14 |
are in one or several structures. | 15 |
(2) "Residential dwelling" means a building used or intended | 16 |
to be used as a personal residence by the owner, part owner, or | 17 |
lessee of the building, or any person authorized by such a person | 18 |
to use the building as a personal residence. | 19 |
(B) The bed bug awareness, education, and prevention program | 20 |
is hereby established in the department of health. The department | 21 |
shall administer the program with the assistance of and in | 22 |
consultation with the Ohio state university department of | 23 |
entomology and Ohio state university extension. | 24 |
(C) The department of health shall make available on its web | 25 |
site information on the increasing incidences of bed bug (cimex | 26 |
lectularius) infestation and post notices that bed bugs are a pest | 27 |
of significant public health importance. The director of health | 28 |
shall do all of the following: | 29 |
(1) Educate hotel owners, residential dwellers, and citizens | 30 |
of this state on the difference between bed bugs and similar types | 31 |
of vermin so they can be easily recognized and treated | 32 |
accordingly; | 33 |
(2) Encourage hotel owners and residential dwellers to | 34 |
closely monitor floors, carpets, bed linens, and mattresses for | 35 |
signs of infestation to facilitate effective, timely treatment to | 36 |
prevent the spread and incidence of infestation; | 37 |
(3) Assist in and promote the development of safe and | 38 |
effective treatment methods or options to eradicate bed bug | 39 |
infestation in hotels and residential dwellings. | 40 |
(D) The department shall make available to the public a | 41 |
toll-free telephone number for any person seeking to report an | 42 |
incidence of bed bug infestation or to request information. The | 43 |
department may make the toll-free number available by maintaining | 44 |
a toll-free telephone line specifically for accepting calls | 45 |
regarding bed bugs or by using a toll-free telephone line that the | 46 |
department maintains for accepting calls regarding other matters. | 47 |
(E) The department shall adopt rules as necessary to | 48 |
implement this section. The rules shall be adopted in accordance | 49 |
with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. | 50 |
Sec. 3707.012. As used in this section, "board of health" | 51 |
means the board of health of a city or general health district or | 52 |
the authority having the duties of a board of health under section | 53 |
3709.05 of the Revised Code. | 54 |
Each board of health shall adopt policies for the prevention, | 55 |
detection, and eradication of vermin in public places, including | 56 |
residential facilities other than private dwellings. Under each | 57 |
policy, bedbug infestations shall be treated in the same manner as | 58 |
other vermin infestations. | 59 |
Section 2. On July 1 of each fiscal year, or as soon as | 60 |
possible thereafter, the Director of Budget and Management shall | 61 |
transfer $167,500 in cash from the Environmental Education Fund | 62 |
(Fund 6A10), used by the Environmental Protection Agency, to the | 63 |
General Revenue Fund. | 64 |
Section 3. All items in this section are hereby appropriated | 65 |
as designated out of any moneys in the state treasury to the | 66 |
credit of the General Revenue Fund. For all appropriations made in | 67 |
this act, those in the first column are for fiscal year 2012 and | 68 |
those in the second column are for fiscal year 2013. The | 69 |
appropriations made in this act are in addition to any other | 70 |
appropriations made for the FY 2012-FY 2013 biennium. | 71 |
Appropriations |
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General Revenue Fund | 73 |
GRF | 440463 | Bed Bug Awareness | $ | 167,500 | $ | 167,500 | 74 | ||||
TOTAL GRF General Revenue Fund | $ | 167,500 | $ | 167,500 | 75 | ||||||
TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS | $ | 167,500 | $ | 167,500 | 76 |
BED BUG AWARENESS | 77 |
The foregoing appropriation item 440463, Bed Bug Awareness, | 78 |
shall be used to implement and administer the Bed Bug Awareness, | 79 |
Education, and Prevention Program created in section 3701.137 of | 80 |
the Revised Code. | 81 |
Within the limits set forth in this act, the Director of | 82 |
Budget and Management shall establish accounts indicating the | 83 |
source and amount of funds for each appropriation made in this | 84 |
act, and shall determine the form and manner in which | 85 |
appropriation accounts shall be maintained. Expenditures from | 86 |
appropriations contained in this act shall be accounted for as | 87 |
though made in the main operating appropriations act of the 129th | 88 |
General Assembly. The appropriations made in this act are subject | 89 |
to all provisions of the main operating appropriations act of the | 90 |
129th General Assembly that are generally applicable to such | 91 |
appropriations. | 92 |
Section 4. The sections of law contained in this act, and | 93 |
the items of which they are composed, are not subject to the | 94 |
referendum. Therefore, under Ohio Constitution, Article II, | 95 |
Section 1d and section 1.471 of the Revised Code, the sections of | 96 |
law contained in this act, and the items of which they are | 97 |
composed, go into immediate effect when this act becomes law. | 98 |