2001 REGULAR SESSION (71st) A AB630 469
Adoption of this amendment will REMOVE the unfunded mandate from AB630.
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Amend the bill as a whole by deleting sections 1 through 4 and adding new sections, designated sections 1 and 2, following the enacting clause, to read 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.
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. To the extent of legislative appropriations available for this purpose, the board shall reduce the fees charged to a health care facility pursuant to this subsection if the required information is submitted in a timely manner.
4. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sec. 2. 1. There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund to the Health Division of the Department of Human Resources for the support of the system for the reporting of information on cancer maintained by the state health officer:
For the fiscal year 2001-2002........................................................................................... $100,000
For the fiscal year 2002-2003........................................................................................... $100,000
2. The money appropriated pursuant to subsection 1 must be used to subsidize the fees that are assessed to health care facilities that make timely submissions of information from their records regarding cases of cancer which occur in this state.
3. Any balance of the sums appropriated by subsection 1 remaining at the end of the respective fiscal years must not be committed for expenditure after June 30 of the respective fiscal years and reverts to the state general fund as soon as all payments of money committed have been made.”.
Amend the bill as a whole by renumbering sec. 5 as sec. 3.
Amend the title of the bill to read as follows:
“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.”.
Amend the summary of the bill to read as follows: