Bill Text: OR HB2637 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to Ixodes pacificus ticks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB2637 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HB2637-Introduced.html

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     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

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                         House Bill 2637

Sponsored by Representative HARKER (Presession filed.)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Requires Oregon Health Authority to publish and update, at
least once every five years, map of this state that identifies
each location where Ixodes pacificus tick has been identified.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to Ixodes pacificus ticks.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + (1) The Oregon Health Authority shall publish
and update, at least once every five years, a map of this state
that identifies each location where an Ixodes pacificus tick has
been identified.
  (2) For the purpose of publishing and updating the map
described in subsection (1) of this section, the authority shall:
  (a) Publish and disseminate information describing the
identifying factors of an Ixodes pacificus tick;
  (b) Publish and disseminate information notifying the public of
Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases; and
  (c) Prepare and make available for submission an Ixodes
pacificus tick identification form by which a person may inform
the authority of the location of an Ixodes pacificus tick.
  (3) The authority shall adopt rules necessary to implement this
section. + }
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