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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2879
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend SENATE BILL 2879 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | the title with the following:
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| 4 | "AN ACT concerning mosquito abatement districts."; and | ||||||
| 5 | by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | ||||||
| 6 | following:
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| 7 | "Section 5. The Mosquito Abatement District Act is amended | ||||||
| 8 | by changing
Section 8 as
follows:
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| 9 | (70 ILCS 1005/8)
(from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 81)
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| 10 | Sec. 8. The board of trustees of any mosquito abatement | ||||||
| 11 | district shall, in
its work, advise and cooperate with the | ||||||
| 12 | Department of Public Health of the
State, and the board of | ||||||
| 13 | trustees of such district shall submit to such
Department, on | ||||||
| 14 | or before January 1st of each year, a report of the work
done | ||||||
| 15 | and results obtained by the district during the preceding year.
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| 16 | The board of trustees of any mosquito abatement district, | ||||||
| 17 | or its designee,
shall conduct routine
surveillance of | ||||||
| 18 | mosquitoes to detect the presence
of mosquito-borne
diseases of | ||||||
| 19 | public health significance. The surveillance shall be | ||||||
| 20 | conducted in
accordance with mosquito
abatement and
control | ||||||
| 21 | guidelines as set forth by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control | ||||||
| 22 | and
Prevention. Areas reporting
disease in humans shall be | ||||||
| 23 | included in the surveillance activities. Mosquito
abatement | ||||||
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| 1 | districts
shall report to the local certified public health | ||||||
| 2 | department the results of
any positive mosquito
samples | ||||||
| 3 | infected with any arboviral infections, including, but not
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| 4 | limited
to: West Nile
Virus, St. Louis Encephalitis, and | ||||||
| 5 | Eastern Equine Encephalitis. Reports shall
be made to the local
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| 6 | certified public health department's director of environmental | ||||||
| 7 | health, or a
designee of the department, within 24 hours
after | ||||||
| 8 | receiving a positive report. The report shall include the type | ||||||
| 9 | of
infection, the number of
mosquitoes collected in the | ||||||
| 10 | trapping device, the type of trapping device used,
and
the type | ||||||
| 11 | of
laboratory testing used to confirm the infection.
Any | ||||||
| 12 | trustee of a mosquito abatement district, or designee of the | ||||||
| 13 | board of
trustees of a mosquito abatement district, that fails | ||||||
| 14 | to
comply with the
requirements of this Act is guilty of a | ||||||
| 15 | Class A Misdemeanor.
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| 16 | (Source: Laws 1927, p. 694.)
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| 17 | Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | ||||||
| 18 | Section 8.28 as
follows:
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| 19 | (30 ILCS 805/8.28 new)
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| 20 | Sec. 8.28. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | ||||||
| 21 | of this
Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | ||||||
| 22 | implementation of
any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | ||||||
| 23 | the 93rd General Assembly.
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| 24 | Section 99. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.".
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