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H. B. No. 201 As IntroducedAs Introduced
128th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2009-2010 |
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Cosponsors:
Representatives Williams, S., Yuko, Slesnick, Letson, Brown, Heard, Domenick, Chandler, Foley, Combs
A BILL
To enact sections 3701.136 and 3707.012 of the
Revised Code to establish the Bed
Bug Awareness,
Education, and Prevention Program, to
require
boards of health to adopt vermin control
policies
under which bedbug infestations are
treated in
the same manner as other infestations,
and to make
an appropriation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 3701.136 and 3707.012 of the Revised
Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 3701.136. (A) As used in this section:
(1) "Hotel" means every establishment kept, used, maintained,
advertised, or held out to the public as a place where sleeping
accommodations are offered to guests, in which five or more rooms
are used for the accommodation of such guests, whether the rooms
are in one or several structures.
(2) "Residential dwelling" means a building used or intended
to be used as a personal residence by the owner, part owner, or
lessee of the building, or any person authorized by such a person
to use the building as a personal residence.
(B) The bed bug awareness, education, and
prevention program
is hereby established in the department of
health. The department
shall administer the program with the assistance of and in
consultation with the
research office of the division of travel
and tourism of the
department of development.
(C) The department shall make
available on its web site
information on the increasing incidences
of bed bug (cimex
lectularius) infestation and post notices that
bed bugs are a
public nuisance dangerous to public health. The
director of
health shall do all of the following:
(1) Educate hotel owners, residential dwellers, and citizens
of this state on the difference between bed bugs and similar types
of vermin so they can be easily recognized and treated
accordingly;
(2) Encourage hotel owners and residential dwellers to
closely monitor floors, carpets, bed linens, and mattresses for
signs of infestation to facilitate effective, timely treatment to
prevent the spread and incidence of infestation;
(3) Assist in and promote the development of safe and
effective treatment methods or options to eradicate bed bug
infestation in hotels and residential dwellings.
(D) The department shall make available
to the public a
toll-free telephone number for any person seeking
to report an
incidence of bed bug infestation or to request
information. The
department may make the toll-free number
available by maintaining
a toll-free telephone line specifically
for accepting calls
regarding bed bugs or by using a toll-free
telephone line that
the department maintains for accepting calls
regarding other
matters.
(E) The department shall adopt rules as necessary
to
implement this section. The rules shall be adopted in
accordance
with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3707.012. As used in this section, "board of health"
means the board of health of a city or general health district or
the city authority having the duties of a board of health under
section 3709.05 of the Revised Code.
Each board of health shall adopt policies for the prevention,
detection, and eradication of vermin in public places, including
residential facilities other than private dwellings. Under each
policy, bedbug infestations shall be treated in the same manner as
other vermin infestations.
Section 2. All items in this section are hereby
appropriated
as designated out of any moneys in the state treasury
to the
credit of the General Revenue Fund Group. For all
appropriations
made in this act, those in the first column are for
fiscal year
2008 and those in the second column are for fiscal
year 2009. The
appropriations made in this act are in addition to
any other
appropriations made for the FY 2008-2009 biennium.
DOH Department of Health
GRF |
440463 |
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Bed Bug Awareness |
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$ |
0 |
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$ |
335,000 |
TOTAL GRF General Revenue Fund |
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$ |
0 |
|
$ |
335,000 |
TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS |
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$ |
0 |
|
$ |
335,000 |
Appropriation item 440463, Bed Bug Awareness, shall be used
to administer sections 3701.136 and 3707.012 of the Revised Code.
Within the limits set forth in this act, the Director of
Budget and Management shall establish accounts indicating the
source and amount of funds for each appropriation made in this
act, and shall determine the form and manner in which
appropriation accounts shall be maintained. Expenditures from
appropriations contained in this act shall be accounted for as
though made in Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly.
The appropriations made in this act are subject to all
provisions of Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly that
are generally applicable to such appropriations.
Section 3. The sections of law contained in this act, and the
items of which they are composed, are not subject to the
referendum. Therefore, under Ohio Constitution, Article II,
Section 1d and section 1.471 of the Revised Code, the sections of
law contained in this act, and the items of which they are
composed, go into immediate effect when this act becomes law.
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