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| | 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB3287 Introduced , by Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment Act. Provides that a federally qualified health care center may provide forensic services to sexual assault survivors in a manner that is consistent with the Act. Provides that a federally qualified health care center that chooses to provide forensic services to sexual assault survivors in a manner that is consistent with the Act shall follow specified provisions of the Act and rules concerning the collection of sexual assault evidence, sexual assault evidence testing, and the submission of sexual assault evidence that are applicable to hospitals. Effective immediately.
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| | HB3287 | | LRB100 10642 MJP 20865 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning health.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency |
| 5 | | Treatment Act is amended by adding Section 6.7 as follows:
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| 6 | | (410 ILCS 70/6.7 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 6.7. Federally qualified health care centers. A |
| 8 | | federally qualified health care center may provide forensic |
| 9 | | services to sexual assault survivors in a manner that is |
| 10 | | consistent with this Act. Federally qualified health care |
| 11 | | centers that choose to provide forensic services to sexual |
| 12 | | assault survivors in a manner that is consistent with this Act |
| 13 | | shall follow the provisions of this Act and rules adopted |
| 14 | | pursuant to this Act concerning the collection of sexual |
| 15 | | assault evidence, sexual assault evidence testing, and the |
| 16 | | submission of sexual assault evidence that are applicable to |
| 17 | | hospitals under Sections 5, 6.1, 6.4, 6.5, and 6.6.
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| 18 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 19 | | becoming law.
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