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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Department of Veterans' Affairs Act is 
5amended  by adding Section 2.13 as follows:
 
6    (20 ILCS 2805/2.13 new)
7    Sec. 2.13. Veterans Homes; complaints; communicable 
8disease reports.
9    (a) As used in this Section: 
10    "Case" means a person that lived as a resident in a 
11Veterans Home and had an illness due to a communicable disease.
12    "Communicable disease" means an illness due to a specific 
13infectious agent or its toxic products that arises through 
14transmission of that agent or its products from an infected 
15person, animal, or inanimate source to a susceptible host, 
16either directly or indirectly, through an intermediate plant or 
17animal host, a vector, or the inanimate environment.
18    (b) The Department shall submit a quarterly report to the 
19General Assembly by January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 
20of each year about the health and welfare of residents at 
21Veterans Homes. The report shall be filed electronically with 
22the General Assembly, as provided under Section 3.1 of the 
23General Assembly Organization Act, and shall be provided 
 
 
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1electronically to any member of the General Assembly upon 
2request. Each report shall include, but not be limited to, the 
3following: 
4        (1) the number and nature of complaints made by 
5    residents, a resident's emergency contacts or next of kin, 
6    or a resident's power of attorney during the quarter;
7        (2) information on any epidemic reported at a Veterans 
8    Home during the quarter; and
9        (3) the number of cases and information on the cases, 
10    including, but not limited to, any dates a resident showed 
11    signs and symptoms of having a communicable disease, any 
12    dates of a confirmed diagnosis of any resident with a 
13    communicable disease, and the action taken by the Veterans 
14    Home to eradicate the spread of communicable disease, 
15    during the quarter. 
 
 
16    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 2, 
172018.