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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 185
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 185 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the MRSA | ||||||
| 5 | Prevention, Control, and Reporting Act. | ||||||
| 6 | Section 5. Definition. In this Act, "State residential
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| 7 | facility" or "facility" means: any Department of Human Services
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| 8 | operated residential facility, including any State mental
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| 9 | health hospital, State developmental center, or State
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| 10 | residential school for the deaf and visually impaired; any
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| 11 | Department of Corrections operated correctional center, work
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| 12 | camp or boot camp; and any
Department of Juvenile Justice | ||||||
| 13 | operated juvenile center or boot
camp.
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| 14 | Section 10. MRSA prevention, control, and reporting. In | ||||||
| 15 | order to improve
the prevention of infections due to | ||||||
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| 1 | methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus ("MRSA"), the | ||||||
| 2 | following
MRSA prevention, control, and reporting activities | ||||||
| 3 | are applicable to State residential facilities: | ||||||
| 4 | (1) Guidelines. State residential facilities shall | ||||||
| 5 | develop and utilize policies and procedures for MRSA | ||||||
| 6 | prevention, control, and reporting that are in compliance | ||||||
| 7 | with federal guidelines and consistent with the | ||||||
| 8 | operational needs of affected agencies.
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| 9 | (2) Minimum standards. Procedural MRSA Prevention and | ||||||
| 10 | Control Guidelines shall include, but not be limited to, | ||||||
| 11 | recommendations and requirements for screening and | ||||||
| 12 | surveillance, education and training, hygiene, sanitation, | ||||||
| 13 | and infection control. | ||||||
| 14 | (3) Reporting. State residential facilities shall | ||||||
| 15 | comply with Department of Public Health rules and | ||||||
| 16 | regulations for reporting of communicable diseases, | ||||||
| 17 | including MRSA.
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| 18 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 19 | becoming law.".
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