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                            (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 cancer; revising the provisions governing certain records of a health care facility relating to cancer; making a fine mandatory for a violation of such provisions; 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. The

1-10  health division shall compile the information timely and not later than 6

1-11  months after it abstracts the information or receives the abstracted

1-12  information from the health care facility.

1-13    3.  The board shall by regulation adopt a schedule of fees which must

1-14  be assessed to the health care facility for each case from which information

1-15  is abstracted by the health division or by the health care facility pursuant to

1-16  subsection 2. The fee assessed to a facility which abstracts information

1-17  from its own records must not exceed one-third of the amount assessed to

1-18  facilities for which the health division abstracts.

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

1-20  and shall be punished by a fine of $1,000, and may be further punished

1-21  by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 6 months.

2-1    Sec. 2.  The amendatory provisions of this act do not apply to offenses

2-2  committed before July 1, 2001.

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

 

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