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90_HB0629ham001

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 1                     AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 629
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill  629  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN  ACT  concerning medical care, amending named Acts.";
 5    and
 6    by replacing everything after the enacting  clause  with  the
 7    following:
 8        "Section 5.  The Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 is amended
 9    by changing Section 13 as follows:
10        (720 ILCS 510/13) (from Ch. 38, par. 81-33)
11        Sec.  13.  No  physician,  hospital,  ambulatory surgical
12    center, nor employee thereof, shall be required  against  his
13    or  its  conscience declared in writing to perform, permit or
14    participate in any abortion, and the failure or refusal to do
15    so  shall  not  be  the  basis  for  any   civil,   criminal,
16    administrative or disciplinary action, proceeding, penalty or
17    punishment.  If a physician, hospital, or ambulatory surgical
18    center, or an employee of any of those, declines  under  this
19    Section  to  perform,  permit, or participate in any abortion
20    because it  is  against  the  conscience  of  the  physician,
21    hospital,  ambulatory  surgical center, or employee, then the
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 1    physician, hospital, ambulatory surgical center, or  employee
 2    shall  provide  a  written  disclosure  to  each  patient and
 3    prospective patient of the physician, hospital, or ambulatory
 4    surgical center before providing any medical service  to  the
 5    patient  or  prospective  patient.  The disclosure shall list
 6    every  medical  service   that   the   physician,   hospital,
 7    ambulatory  surgical center, or employee declines to perform,
 8    permit, or participate in under this Section. If any  request
 9    for  an  abortion  is  denied,  the patient shall be promptly
10    notified.
11    (Source: P.A. 81-1078.)
12        Section 10.  The Right of Conscience Act  is  amended  by
13    changing Sections 4 and 9 as follows:
14        (745 ILCS 70/4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5304)
15        Sec.  4.   No  physician  or  medical  personnel shall be
16    civilly or criminally liable to any person, estate, public or
17    private entity or public official by reason  of  his  or  her
18    refusal  to  perform,  assist,  counsel,  suggest, recommend,
19    refer or participate in any way in  any  particular  form  of
20    medical  care  which  is  contrary  to the conscience of such
21    physician or medical personnel. If  a  physician  or  medical
22    personnel  decline  under  this  Section  to perform, assist,
23    counsel, suggest, recommend, refer, or participate in any way
24    in any particular form of medical care because it is contrary
25    to the conscience of the physician or other person, then  the
26    physician  or other person shall provide a written disclosure
27    to each patient and prospective patient of the  physician  or
28    other person before providing any medical care to the patient
29    or prospective patient.  The disclosure shall list every form
30    of  medical  care that the physician or other person declines
31    to perform, assist, counsel, suggest,  recommend,  refer,  or
32    participate in under this Section.
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 1    (Source: P.A. 80-616.)
 2        (745 ILCS 70/9) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5309)
 3        Sec.  9.   No  person, association, or corporation, which
 4    owns, operates, supervises, or  manages  a  medical  facility
 5    shall  be civilly or criminally liable to any person, estate,
 6    or public or private entity by  reason  of  refusal  of  such
 7    medical  facility to permit or provide any particular form of
 8    medical  care  which   violates   its   ethical   guidelines,
 9    constitution,   by-laws,   articles   of   incorporation   or
10    regulations.   If   a  person,  association,  or  corporation
11    declines  under  this  Section  to  permit  or  provide   any
12    particular  form  of  medical  care  because  it violates the
13    person's, association's, or corporation's ethical guidelines,
14    constitution,  by-laws,   articles   of   incorporation,   or
15    regulations,  then  the  person,  association, or corporation
16    shall provide  a  written  disclosure  to  each  patient  and
17    prospective  patient  of  a medical facility owned, operated,
18    supervised,  or  managed  by  the  person,  association,   or
19    corporation  before providing any medical care to the patient
20    or prospective patient at the facility.  The disclosure shall
21    list every form of medical care that the person, association,
22    or corporation declines  to  permit  or  provide  under  this
23    Section.
24        Nothing in this act shall be construed so as to relieve a
25    physician  or  other medical personnel from obligations under
26    the law of providing emergency medical care.
27    (Source: P.A. 80-616.)".

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