Amendment No. 613

Senate Amendment to Senate Bill No. 132 (BDR 53-925)

Proposed by: Committee on Commerce and Labor

Amendment Box: Replaces Amendment No. 27.

Resolves Conflicts with: N/A

Amends: Summary: Title: Preamble: Joint Sponsorship:

ASSEMBLY ACTION Initial and Date | SENATE ACTION Initial and Date

Adopted Lost | Adopted Lost

Concurred In Not | Concurred In Not

Receded Not | Receded Not

Amend the bill as a whole by renumbering section 1 as sec. 3 and adding new sections designated sections 1 and 2, following the enacting clause, to read as follows:

"Section 1. Chapter 616A of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:

"Police officer" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 617.135.

Sec. 2. NRS 616A.025 is hereby amended to read as follows:

616A.025 As used in chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 616A.030 to 616A.360, inclusive, and section 1 of this act have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.".

Amend section 1, pages 1 and 2, by deleting lines 11 through 13 on page 1 and lines 1 through 12 on page 2, and inserting:

"(c) Preventive treatment administered as a precaution to a police officer or fireman who was exposed to a contagious disease:

(1) Upon battery by an offender; or

(2) While performing the duties of a police officer or fireman,

if the exposure is documented by the creation and maintenance of a report concerning the exposure pursuant to subsection 1 of section 5 of this act.".

Amend the bill as a whole by deleting sec. 2 and renumbering sections 3 through 5 as sections 4 through 6.

Amend sec. 3, page 4, by deleting lines 10 through 25 and inserting:

"(c) The exposure to a contagious disease of a police officer or fireman who was exposed to the contagious disease:

(1) Upon battery by an offender; or

(2) While performing the duties of a police officer or fireman,

shall be deemed to be an injury by accident sustained by the police officer or fireman arising out of and in the course of his employment if the exposure is documented by the creation and maintenance of a report concerning the exposure pursuant to subsection 1 of section 5 of this act. As used".

Amend sec. 4, pages 4 and 5, by deleting lines 32 through 40 on page 4 and lines 1 through 18 on page 5, and inserting:

"1. If a police officer or fireman is exposed to a contagious disease:

(a) Upon battery by an offender; or

(b) While performing the duties of a police officer or fireman,

the employer of the police officer or fireman shall create and maintain a report concerning the exposure that includes, without limitation, the name of each police officer or fireman, as applicable, who was exposed to the contagious disease and the name of each person, if any, to whom the police officer or fireman was exposed.

2. If the employment of a police officer or fireman is terminated, voluntarily or involuntarily, the employer of the police officer or fireman shall, at the time of termination and at 6 and 12 months after the date of termination, provide to the police officer or fireman a blood test to screen for contagious diseases, including, without limitation, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus. If a blood test administered pursuant to this subsection and provided to the employer reveals that a former police officer or fireman has a contagious disease or the antibodies associated with a contagious disease, the police officer or fireman is eligible, during his lifetime, to receive compensation for such a disease and any additional diseases or conditions that are associated with or result from the contagious disease pursuant to chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, and chapter 617 of NRS. The former employer of a police officer or fireman shall pay all the costs associated with providing blood tests required pursuant to this subsection.".

Amend the bill as a whole by deleting sections 6 through 8 and renumbering sections 9 and 10 as sections 7 and 8.

Amend the title of the bill to read as follows:

"AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; providing for the availability of benefits to certain police officers and firemen for exposure to a contagious disease; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.".