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OH HB357
Bill
Status
5/27/2010
Primary Sponsor
Barbara Boyd
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AI Summary
HB 357 Summary
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Authorizes the Governor to declare a "health exigency" (illness or health condition posing substantial risk to public health) and issue necessary orders; includes epidemics, pandemics, and quarantine/isolation incidents.
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Permits state agencies to require employees showing symptoms listed in a health exigency declaration to leave the workplace immediately; employees may use accrued leave, unpaid leave, or donated leave and retain benefits while on unpaid leave.
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Modifies the Intrastate Mutual Aid Compact to expand mutual aid assistance beyond formally declared emergencies to include exercises, training activities, planned events, and incidents requiring additional resources.
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Authorizes emergency medical services personnel (certified by the state board) to deliver drugs during declared public health emergencies per guidelines developed by the Department of Health.
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Exempts certain infectious waste facilities (those owned/operated by generators treating only their own wastes, crematories, and animal waste processors) from environmental protection regulation requirements.
Legislative Description
To modify the laws governing the Intrastate Mutual Aid Compact, to authorize the Governor to declare the existence of a health exigency, to permit state agencies to require their employees to leave their workplaces when they demonstrate symptoms related to a health exigency, to specify that certain persons involved with infectious wastes may be exempt from regulation under the environmental protection laws, to authorize certain emergency medical services personnel to deliver drugs during an emergency that affects the public health, and to modify the conditions under which certain emergency medical services may be provided.
Public health exigencies/emergencies
Last Action
To Health, Human Services, & Aging
5/28/2010