Loading chat...
IN HB1156
Bill
Status
1/7/2019
Primary Sponsor
Gregory Porter
Click for details
AI Summary
-
Repeals existing state and local programs for pest and vector abatement under IC 16-41-33, effective July 1, 2019
-
Authorizes the state department of health executive board to adopt rules for controlling pests and vectors, replacing previous language limited to "fly and mosquito breeding places"
-
Prohibits lodging establishment owners, lessees, superintendents, or managers from furnishing beds or bedding infested with pests or vectors
-
Requires infested lodging establishment rooms to be thoroughly fumigated, disinfected, and renovated until pests and vectors are entirely exterminated
-
Defines "pest" as an arthropod, vertebrate, or microorganism of health significance to humans, and "vector" as an arthropod responsible for transmitting pathogens from a host to another animal or human
Legislative Description
Bed bug abatement. Repeals statutes concerning state and local programs for pest and vector abatement. Allows: (1) the executive board of the state department of health to adopt rules; and (2) the board of a municipal corporation and the health and hospital corporation to adopt ordinances and rules; concerning the control of pests and vectors. Provides that the owner, lessee, superintendent, or manager of an establishment subject to the lodging establishment laws may not furnish beds or bedding infested with pests or vectors. Requires that a lodging establishment room that has an infested bed or infested bedding must be thoroughly fumigated, disinfected, and renovated until the pests and vectors are entirely exterminated. Makes conforming amendments.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
1/7/2019