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| | 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB2623 Introduced 2/19/2021, by Rep. Maura Hirschauer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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| 20 ILCS 2310/2310-431 new | |
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Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Public Health to ensure that: pediatricians ask about the presence of guns in homes and distribute safe gun storage information to individuals with guns in a home with a child; and safe gun storage information is available at all Secretary of State driver services facilities. Provides that the Department may utilize existing public or private programs to implement these provisions. Requires the Department to disseminate safe gun storage information on its website and in Department facilities. Effective January 1, 2023.
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| | HB2623 | | LRB102 13546 CPF 18893 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
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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 Department of Public Health Powers and |
| 5 | | Duties Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is |
| 6 | | amended by adding Section 2310-431 as follows:
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| 7 | | (20 ILCS 2310/2310-431 new) |
| 8 | | Sec. 2310-431. Safe gun storage; pediatricians; Secretary |
| 9 | | of State driver services facilities; dissemination by the |
| 10 | | Department. |
| 11 | | (a) The Department shall ensure that pediatricians ask |
| 12 | | about the presence of guns in homes and distribute safe gun |
| 13 | | storage information to individuals with guns who reside in a |
| 14 | | home with a child. |
| 15 | | (b) The Department shall ensure that safe gun storage |
| 16 | | information is available at all Secretary of State driver |
| 17 | | services facilities. |
| 18 | | (c) The Department may utilize existing public or private |
| 19 | | programs to implement this Section. |
| 20 | | (d) The Department shall disseminate safe gun storage |
| 21 | | information on its website and in Department facilities.
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| 22 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January |