HB4433 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4433

Introduced 2/3/2020, by Rep. Bob Morgan

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

215 ILCS 165/5

from Ch. 32, par. 599

Amends the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act. Provides that if a health services plan corporation furnishes dental services to the plan's subscribers and beneficiaries and these services are rendered by dentists licensed in Illinois, the board of trustees of the corporation shall appoint a Dental Director who shall be a dentist licensed to practice dentistry in Illinois. Provides that the Dental Director, under the board of trustees, shall have control of and responsibility for the dental and dental-related scientific aspects of the business of the corporation. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Voluntary Health Services Plans Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:

(215 ILCS 165/5) (from Ch. 32, par. 599)

Sec. 5. The business and affairs of a health services plan corporation shall be managed by a board of trustees, which shall have the power to adopt, and to amend from time to time, by-laws governing the conduct of the corporation's business. The board of trustees shall consist of not less than seven persons, all of whom shall have the same general qualifications as the incorporators, and at least 30% of whom shall, in addition, be physicians or dentists, licensed in Illinois to practice medicine in all of its branches or dentistry, respectively; provided, however, that if in computing the required number of physicians or dentists on the board of trustees, the amount of 30% does not coincide with a whole number, but lies between whole numbers, the smaller whole number shall be controlling as to the number of physicians or dentists. The original board of trustees shall be appointed by the incorporators. Trustees shall serve for a term of three years, except that as to the original appointed board, not more than one-third of the members thereof shall be appointed for three years, not more than one-third thereof for two years and the balance thereof for one year. As the terms of the members of the board of trustees expire, they shall be replaced, from time to time, by election by the health services plan subscribers who are members of the health services plan corporation. If the corporation furnishes medical services to the plan's subscribers and beneficiaries and these services are rendered by physicians licensed in Illinois to practice medicine in all of its branches, the board of trustees shall appoint a Medical Director who shall be a physician licensed in Illinois to practice medicine in all of its branches. The Medical Director may participate in all deliberations of the board of trustees but shall not vote in any decisions or determinations made by the board of trustees. The Medical Director, under the board of trustees, shall have complete charge of and responsibility for the medical and medically related scientific aspects of the business of the corporation. If the corporation furnishes dental services to the plan's subscribers and beneficiaries and these services are rendered by dentists licensed in Illinois, the board of trustees shall appoint a Dental Director who shall be a dentist licensed in Illinois to practice dentistry. The Dental Director may participate in all deliberations of the board of trustees but shall not vote in any decisions or determinations made by the board of trustees. The Dental Director, under the board of trustees, shall have complete control of and responsibility for the dental and dental-related scientific aspects of the business of the corporation.

(Source: P.A. 81-1203.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.