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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 capacity of each local health
21 department to maintain effective programs and services,
22 population size, indicators of need, numbers of persons in
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1 poverty, and other criteria significant to protecting public
2 health, along with the services, functions, structure, and
3 capacity of the Department. 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 of each local
12 health department in effect for the fiscal year beginning
13 July 1, 2002 is neither diminished nor impaired in subsequent
14 fiscal years, provided that the total local health protection
15 grant appropriation is not reduced. The revised methodology
16 shall be published in the Illinois Register as a proposed
17 rule on a timely basis so that the rule will be adopted and
18 effective July 1, 2004.".