Assembly Bill No. 472–Assemblymen Humke and Koivisto

 

March 19, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services

 

SUMMARY—Requires establishment and carrying out of program to control diseases that may be transmitted by arthropods or rodents. (BDR 40‑1281)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: Yes.

                                    Effect on the State: Yes.

 

CONTAINS UNFUNDED MANDATE (§ 1)

(Not Requested by Affected Local Government)

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to public health; requiring each health authority to establish and carry out a program to survey and control diseases that may be transmitted by arthropods or rodents; requiring a board of county commissioners to pay the costs of carrying out such a program in that county; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1    Section 1. Chapter 441A of NRS is hereby amended by adding

1-2  thereto a new section to read as follows:

1-3    1.  Each health authority shall establish and carry out a program to

1-4  survey and control diseases that may be transmitted to humans, domestic

1-5  animals or livestock by arthropods or rodents, including, without

1-6  limitation:

1-7    (a) Encephalitis;

1-8    (b) Hantavirus;

1-9    (c) Lyme disease; and

1-10    (d) Plague.

1-11    2.  The board of county commissioners of each county shall, upon

1-12  request, pay to a health authority the expenses incurred by the health

1-13  authority in carrying out the program in that county.

1-14    3.  As used in this section, “arthropods” includes, without limitation:

1-15    (a) Mosquitoes;

1-16    (b) Fleas; and

1-17    (c) Ticks.

2-1    Sec. 2.  The provisions of subsection 1 of NRS 354.599 do not apply

2-2  to any additional expenses of a local government that are related to the

2-3  provisions of this act.

2-4    Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2001.

 

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