(REPRINTED WITH ADOPTED AMENDMENTS)

 

Assembly Bill No. 630–Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining

 

March 26, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining

 

SUMMARY—Revises provisions regarding system for reporting of information on cancer that is maintained by state health officer. (BDR 40‑1456)

 

FISCAL NOTE:    Effect on Local Government: Yes.

                                 Effect on the State: Yes.

 

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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 system for the reporting of information on cancer; directing the state board of health to reduce fees related to the reporting of information by health care facilities under certain circumstances; making an appropriation for support of the system; 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. NRS 457.250 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2    457.250  1.  The chief administrative officer of each health care

1-3  facility in this state shall make available to the state health officer or his

1-4  representative the records of the health care facility for every case of

1-5  malignant neoplasms which are specified by the state board of health as

1-6  subject to reporting.

1-7    2.  The health division shall abstract from the records of the health care

1-8  facility or shall require the health care facility to abstract from their own

1-9  records such information as is required by the state board of health.

1-10    3.  The board shall by regulation adopt a schedule of fees which must

1-11  be assessed to the health care facility for each case from which information

1-12  is abstracted by the health division or by the health care facility pursuant to

1-13  subsection 2. The fee assessed to a facility which abstracts information

1-14  from its own records must not exceed one-third of the amount assessed to

1-15  facilities for which the health division abstracts. To the extent of legislative

1-16  appropriations available for this purpose, the board shall reduce the fees

1-17  charged to a health care facility pursuant to this subsection if the

1-18  required information is submitted in a timely manner.

1-19    4.  Any person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.

1-20    Sec. 2.  1.  There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund

1-21  to the Health Division of the Department of Human Resources for the

2-1  support of the system for the reporting of information on cancer maintained

2-2  by the state health officer:

 

2-3  For the fiscal year 2001-2002.............. $100,000

2-4  For the fiscal year 2002-2003.............. $100,000

 

2-5    2.  The money appropriated pursuant to subsection 1 must be used to

2-6  subsidize the fees that are assessed to health care facilities that make timely

2-7  submissions of information from their records regarding cases of cancer

2-8  which occur in this state.

2-9    3.  Any balance of the sums appropriated by subsection 1 remaining at

2-10  the end of the respective fiscal years must not be committed for

2-11  expenditure after June 30 of the respective fiscal years and reverts to the

2-12  state general fund as soon as all payments of money committed have been

2-13  made.

2-14    Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2001.

 

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