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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2501

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 2501  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 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 2310-106 as follows:

 7        (20 ILCS 2310/2310-106 new)
 8        Sec.  2310-106.  Local  health protection grants; revised
 9    methodology. The Department, in cooperation with the Illinois
10    Association of Public Health  Administrators  and  any  other
11    legally   established   association   of   certified   health
12    departments  whose  jurisdictions  cover  at least 20% of the
13    State's population or 20% of the land area of the State, with
14    regard to the allocation of the annual appropriation for  the
15    ordinary  and  contingent  expenses of the Department for the
16    purpose of local health protection grants for the fiscal year
17    beginning  July  1,  2004,  shall  revise   the   methodology
18    promulgated  by the administrative rule governing the purpose
19    and distribution of local health  protection  grants,  taking
20    into  consideration  the services, functions, structures, and
21    capacity of the Department and the  capacity  of  each  local
22    health   department   to   maintain  effective  programs  and
 
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 1    services, population size,  indicators  of  population  need,
 2    numbers of persons in poverty, and other criteria significant
 3    to  protecting  public  health. The revised methodology shall
 4    include criteria, standards, and  procedures  for  allocating
 5    these  grants  on  a basis that provides incentives for local
 6    health  departments  to  organize  into  regions   or   other
 7    organizational    arrangements   that   assure   an   optimal
 8    operational efficiency and the delivery of the  10  essential
 9    public health services established by the Centers for Disease
10    Control  and Prevention (CDC), with assurances that the Local
11    Public Health Protection  Grant  funded  capacity,  including
12    that  funded  by minimums, of each local health department in
13    effect for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2003 is  neither
14    diminished  nor impaired in subsequent fiscal years, provided
15    that the total local health protection grant appropriation is
16    not reduced. The revised methodology shall  be  published  in
17    the Illinois Register as a proposed rule on a timely basis so
18    that the rule will be adopted and effective July 1, 2004.".