Revises provisions relating to industrial insurance. (BDR 53-550)

Existing law requires the employer of a police officer, firefighter or arson investigator to provide certain testing for tuberculosis, hepatitis and other contagious diseases after the employment of an employee is terminated. Existing law requires the employer to provide: (1) a test to screen for exposure to tuberculosis, at the time of termination and at 3 months after the date of termination; and (2) a blood test or other appropriate test to screen for other contagious diseases, including hepatitis and human immunodeficiency virus, within 30 days after the date of termination and at 6 and 12 months after the date of termination. (NRS 616C.052) Section 1 of this bill requires testing for: (1) tuberculosis within 30 days after the date of termination, instead of at the time of termination, and at 3 months after the date of termination; and (2) other contagious diseases within 30 days after the date of termination and at not less than 4 months but not more than 6 months after the date of termination, instead of at 6 and 12 months after the date of termination. Section 1 also requires such a blood test or other appropriate test for other contagious diseases to be based on the most recent recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Department of Health and Human Services or the American Medical Association. Existing law requires a person employed as a police officer, firefighter or emergency medical attendant to submit to certain testing for various strains of hepatitis and other diseases or conditions associated with hepatitis, depending on the employer of the person. (NRS 617.485, 617.487) Sections 2 and 3 of this bill require any blood test or other appropriate test for hepatitis or other associated diseases or conditions to be based on the most recent recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Department of Health and Human Services or the American Medical Association.