Assembly Bill No. 630–Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining
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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. NRS 457.250 is hereby amended to read as follows:
457.250 1. The chief administrative officer of each health care
facility in this state shall make available to the state health officer or his
representative the records of the health care facility for every case of
malignant neoplasms which are specified by the state board of health as
subject to reporting.
2. The health division shall abstract from the records of the health care
facility or shall require the health care facility to abstract from their own
records such information as is required by the state board of health. The
health division shall compile the information timely and not later than 6
months after it abstracts the information or receives the abstracted
information from the health care facility.
3. The board shall by regulation adopt a schedule of fees which must
be assessed to the health care facility for each case from which
information is abstracted by the health division or by the health care
facility pursuant to subsection 2. The fee assessed to a facility which
abstracts information from its own records must not exceed one-third of
the amount assessed to facilities for which the health division abstracts.
4. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor [.]
and shall be punished by a fine of $1,000, and may be further punished
by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 6 months.
Sec. 2. The amendatory provisions of this act do not apply to offenses
committed before July 1, 2001.
Sec. 3. This act becomes effective on July 1, 2001.
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