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OH HB201

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

6/2/2009

Primary Sponsor

Edna Brown

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Origin

House of Representatives

128th General Assembly (2009-2010)

AI Summary

  • Establishes the Bed Bug Awareness, Education, and Prevention Program administered by the Ohio Department of Health in consultation with the Department of Development's Division of Travel and Tourism.

  • Requires the Department of Health to post information on bed bug infestations as a public health nuisance on its website, educate hotel owners and residents on identifying bed bugs, encourage monitoring of facilities for signs of infestation, and develop safe treatment methods.

  • Mandates the Department of Health maintain a toll-free telephone number for reporting bed bug infestations and requesting information.

  • Requires all boards of health to adopt policies treating bed bug infestations in public places and residential facilities the same manner as other vermin infestations.

  • Appropriates $335,000 from the General Revenue Fund for fiscal year 2009 to administer the bed bug awareness program.

Legislative Description

To establish the Bed Bug Awareness, Education, and Prevention Program, to require boards of health to adopt vermin control policies under which bedbug infestations are treated in the same manner as other infestations, and to make an appropriation.

Bed bug prevention

Last Action

To Finance & Appropriations

6/2/2009

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