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1 | AN ACT concerning public health.
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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 Professional Regulation Law of | ||||||
5 | the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding | ||||||
6 | Section 2105-400 as follows: | ||||||
7 | (20 ILCS 2105/2105-400 new)
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8 | Sec. 2105-400. Emergency Powers. | ||||||
9 | (a) Upon proclamation of a disaster by the Governor, as | ||||||
10 | provided for in the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act, | ||||||
11 | the Director of Professional Regulation shall have the | ||||||
12 | following powers, which shall be exercised only in coordination | ||||||
13 | with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and the | ||||||
14 | Department of Public Health:
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15 | (1) The power to suspend the requirements for permanent | ||||||
16 | or temporary licensure of persons who are licensed in | ||||||
17 | another state and are working under the direction of the | ||||||
18 | Illinois Emergency Management Agency and the Department of | ||||||
19 | Public Health pursuant to a declared disaster. | ||||||
20 | (2) The power to modify the scope of practice | ||||||
21 | restrictions under any licensing act administered by the | ||||||
22 | Department for any person working under the direction of | ||||||
23 | the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and the Illinois | ||||||
24 | Department of Public Health pursuant to the declared | ||||||
25 | disaster. | ||||||
26 | (3) The power to expand the exemption in Section 4(a) | ||||||
27 | of the Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987 to those licensed | ||||||
28 | professionals whose scope of practice has been modified, | ||||||
29 | under paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of this Section, to | ||||||
30 | include any element of the practice of pharmacy as defined | ||||||
31 | in the Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987 for any person working | ||||||
32 | under the direction of the Illinois Emergency Management |
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1 | Agency and the Illinois Department of Public Health | ||||||
2 | pursuant to the declared disaster. | ||||||
3 | (b) Persons exempt from licensure under paragraph (1) of | ||||||
4 | subsection (a) of this Section and persons operating under | ||||||
5 | modified scope of practice provisions under paragraph (2) of | ||||||
6 | subsection (a) of this Section shall be exempt from licensure | ||||||
7 | or be subject to modified scope of practice only until the | ||||||
8 | declared disaster has ended as provided by law. | ||||||
9 | (c) The Director shall exercise these powers by way of | ||||||
10 | proclamation.
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11 | Section 10. The Department of Public Health Act is amended | ||||||
12 | by changing Sections 2 and 7 and by adding Section 2.1 as | ||||||
13 | follows:
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14 | (20 ILCS 2305/2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 22)
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15 | Sec. 2. Powers.
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16 | (a) The State Department of Public Health has general | ||||||
17 | supervision of
the interests of the health and lives of the | ||||||
18 | people of the State. It has
supreme authority in matters of | ||||||
19 | quarantine and isolation , and may declare and enforce
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20 | quarantine and isolation when none exists, and may modify or | ||||||
21 | relax quarantine and isolation when it has
been established. | ||||||
22 | The Department may adopt, promulgate, repeal and amend
rules | ||||||
23 | and regulations and make such sanitary investigations and | ||||||
24 | inspections
as it may from time to time deem necessary for the | ||||||
25 | preservation and
improvement of the public health, consistent | ||||||
26 | with law regulating the
following:
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27 | (1) Transportation of the remains of deceased persons.
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28 | (2) Sanitary practices relating to drinking water made
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29 | accessible to the
public for human consumption or for | ||||||
30 | lavatory or culinary purposes.
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31 | (3) Sanitary practices relating to rest room | ||||||
32 | facilities made
accessible
to the public or to persons | ||||||
33 | handling food served to the public.
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34 | (4) Sanitary practices relating to disposal of human |
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1 | wastes in
or from all buildings and places where people | ||||||
2 | live, work or assemble.
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3 | The provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure | ||||||
4 | Act are hereby
expressly adopted and shall apply to all | ||||||
5 | administrative rules and
procedures of the Department of Public | ||||||
6 | Health under this Act, except that
Section 5-35 of the Illinois | ||||||
7 | Administrative Procedure Act relating to
procedures for | ||||||
8 | rule-making does not apply to the adoption of any rule
required | ||||||
9 | by federal law in connection with which the Department is
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10 | precluded by law from exercising any discretion.
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11 | All local boards of health, health authorities and | ||||||
12 | officers, police
officers, sheriffs and all other officers and | ||||||
13 | employees of the state or any
locality shall enforce the rules | ||||||
14 | and regulations so adopted and orders issued by the Department | ||||||
15 | pursuant to this Section .
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16 | The Department of Public Health shall conduct a public | ||||||
17 | information
campaign to inform Hispanic women of the high | ||||||
18 | incidence of breast cancer
and the importance of mammograms and | ||||||
19 | where to obtain a mammogram.
This requirement may be satisfied | ||||||
20 | by translation into Spanish and
distribution of the breast | ||||||
21 | cancer summaries required by Section 2310-345 of
the Department | ||||||
22 | of Public Health Powers and Duties Law (20 ILCS
2310/2310-345).
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23 | The information provided by the Department of Public Health | ||||||
24 | shall include (i)
a statement that mammography is the most | ||||||
25 | accurate method for making an early
detection of breast cancer, | ||||||
26 | however, no diagnostic tool is 100% effective and
(ii) | ||||||
27 | instructions for performing breast
self-examination and a | ||||||
28 | statement that it is
important to perform a breast | ||||||
29 | self-examination monthly.
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30 | The Department of Public Health shall investigate the | ||||||
31 | causes of
dangerously contagious or infectious diseases, | ||||||
32 | especially when existing in
epidemic form, and take means to | ||||||
33 | restrict and suppress the same, and
whenever such disease | ||||||
34 | becomes, or threatens to become epidemic, in any
locality and | ||||||
35 | the local board of health or local authorities neglect or
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36 | refuse to enforce efficient measures for its restriction or |
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1 | suppression or
to act with sufficient promptness or efficiency, | ||||||
2 | or whenever the local
board of health or local authorities | ||||||
3 | neglect or refuse to promptly enforce
efficient measures for | ||||||
4 | the restriction or suppression of dangerously
contagious or | ||||||
5 | infectious diseases, the Department of Public Health may
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6 | enforce such measures as it deems necessary to protect the | ||||||
7 | public health,
and all necessary expenses so incurred shall be | ||||||
8 | paid by the locality for
which services are rendered.
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9 | (b) Subject to the provisions of subsection (c), the | ||||||
10 | Department may order
a person or group of persons to be | ||||||
11 | quarantined or isolated or may order a place to be closed and | ||||||
12 | made off
limits to the
public to prevent the probable spread of | ||||||
13 | a dangerously contagious or infectious
disease, including | ||||||
14 | non-compliant tuberculosis patients, until such time as the
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15 | condition can be corrected or the danger to the public health | ||||||
16 | eliminated or
reduced in such a manner that no substantial | ||||||
17 | danger to the public's health any
longer exists. Orders for | ||||||
18 | isolation of a person or quarantine of a place to prevent the | ||||||
19 | probable spread of a sexually transmissible disease shall be | ||||||
20 | governed by the provisions of Section 7 of the Illinois | ||||||
21 | Sexually Transmissible Disease Control Act and not this | ||||||
22 | Section.
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23 | (c) Except as provided in this Section, no person or a | ||||||
24 | group of persons may be ordered to be quarantined or isolated | ||||||
25 | and no place may
be ordered to
be closed and made off limits to | ||||||
26 | the public except with the consent of the
person or owner of | ||||||
27 | the place or
upon the prior order of a court of competent | ||||||
28 | jurisdiction. The Department may, however, order a person or a | ||||||
29 | group of persons to be quarantined or isolated or may order a | ||||||
30 | place to be closed and made off limits to the public on an | ||||||
31 | immediate basis without prior consent or court order if, in the | ||||||
32 | reasonable judgment of the Department, immediate action is | ||||||
33 | required to protect the public from a dangerously contagious or | ||||||
34 | infectious disease. In the event of an immediate order issued | ||||||
35 | without prior consent or court order, the Department shall, as | ||||||
36 | soon as practical, within 48 hours after issuing the order, |
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1 | obtain the consent of the person or owner or file a petition | ||||||
2 | requesting a court order authorizing the isolation or | ||||||
3 | quarantine or closure. When exigent circumstances exist that | ||||||
4 | cause the court system to be unavailable or that make it | ||||||
5 | impossible to obtain consent or file a petition within 48 hours | ||||||
6 | after issuance of an immediate order, the Department must | ||||||
7 | obtain consent or file a petition requesting a court order as | ||||||
8 | soon as reasonably possible. To obtain a court order,
the | ||||||
9 | Department, by clear and convincing evidence, must prove that | ||||||
10 | the public's
health and
welfare are significantly endangered by | ||||||
11 | a person or group of persons that has, that is suspected of | ||||||
12 | having, that has been exposed to, or that is reasonably | ||||||
13 | believed to have been exposed to
with a dangerously contagious
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14 | or infectious disease including non-compliant tuberculosis | ||||||
15 | patients or
by a place where there is a significant amount of | ||||||
16 | activity likely to spread a
dangerously contagious or | ||||||
17 | infectious disease. The Department must also prove
that
all | ||||||
18 | other
reasonable means of correcting the problem have been | ||||||
19 | exhausted and no less
restrictive alternative exists. For | ||||||
20 | purposes of this subsection, in determining whether no less | ||||||
21 | restrictive alternative exists, the court shall consider | ||||||
22 | evidence showing that, under the circumstances presented by the | ||||||
23 | case in which an order is sought, quarantine or isolation is | ||||||
24 | the measure provided for in a rule of the Department or in | ||||||
25 | guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and | ||||||
26 | Prevention or the World Health Organization. Persons who are or | ||||||
27 | are about to be ordered to be isolated or quarantined and | ||||||
28 | owners of places that are or are about to be closed and made | ||||||
29 | off limits to the public shall have the right to counsel. If a | ||||||
30 | person or owner is indigent, the court shall appoint counsel | ||||||
31 | for that person or owner. Persons who are ordered to be | ||||||
32 | isolated or quarantined or who are owners of places that are | ||||||
33 | ordered to be closed and made off limits to the public, shall | ||||||
34 | be given a written notice of such order. The written notice | ||||||
35 | shall additionally include the following: (1) notice of the | ||||||
36 | right to counsel; (2) notice that if the person or owner is |
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1 | indigent, the court will appoint counsel for that person or | ||||||
2 | owner; (3) notice of the reason for the order for isolation, | ||||||
3 | quarantine, or closure; (4) notice of whether the order is an | ||||||
4 | immediate order, and if so, the time frame for the Department | ||||||
5 | to seek consent or to file a petition requesting a court order | ||||||
6 | as set out in this subsection; and (5) notice of the | ||||||
7 | anticipated duration of the isolation, quarantine, or closure.
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8 | (d) The Department may order physical examinations and | ||||||
9 | tests and collect laboratory specimens as necessary for the | ||||||
10 | diagnosis or treatment of individuals in order to prevent the | ||||||
11 | probable spread of a dangerously contagious or infectious | ||||||
12 | disease. Physical examinations, tests, or collection of | ||||||
13 | laboratory specimens must not be such as are reasonably likely | ||||||
14 | to lead to serious harm to the affected individual. To prevent | ||||||
15 | the spread of a dangerously contagious or infectious disease, | ||||||
16 | the Department may, pursuant to the provisions of subsection | ||||||
17 | (c) of this Section, isolate or quarantine any person whose | ||||||
18 | refusal of physical examination or testing or collection of | ||||||
19 | laboratory specimens results in uncertainty regarding whether | ||||||
20 | he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a dangerously | ||||||
21 | contagious or infectious disease or otherwise poses a danger to | ||||||
22 | the public's health. An individual may refuse to consent to a | ||||||
23 | physical examination, test, or collection of laboratory | ||||||
24 | specimens. An individual shall be given a written notice that | ||||||
25 | shall include notice of the following: (i) that the individual | ||||||
26 | may refuse to consent to physical examination, test, or | ||||||
27 | collection of laboratory specimens; (ii) that if the individual | ||||||
28 | consents to physical examination, tests, or collection of | ||||||
29 | laboratory specimens, the results of that examination, test, or | ||||||
30 | collection of laboratory specimens may subject the individual | ||||||
31 | to isolation or quarantine pursuant to the provisions of | ||||||
32 | subsection (c) of this Section; (iii) that if the individual | ||||||
33 | refuses to consent to physical examination, tests, or | ||||||
34 | collection of laboratory specimens and that refusal results in | ||||||
35 | uncertainty regarding whether he or she has been exposed to or | ||||||
36 | is infected with a dangerously contagious or infectious disease |
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1 | or otherwise poses a danger to the public's health, the | ||||||
2 | individual may be subject to isolation or quarantine pursuant | ||||||
3 | to the provisions of subsection (c) of this Section; and (iv) | ||||||
4 | that if the individual refuses to consent to physical | ||||||
5 | examinations, tests, or collection of laboratory specimens and | ||||||
6 | becomes subject to isolation and quarantine as provided in this | ||||||
7 | subsection (d), he or she shall have the right to counsel | ||||||
8 | pursuant to the provisions of subsection (c) of this Section. | ||||||
9 | To the extent feasible without endangering the public's health, | ||||||
10 | the Department shall respect and accommodate the religious | ||||||
11 | beliefs of individuals in implementing this subsection. | ||||||
12 | (e) The Department may order the administration of | ||||||
13 | vaccines, medications, or other treatments to persons as | ||||||
14 | necessary in order to prevent the probable spread of a | ||||||
15 | dangerously contagious or infectious disease. A vaccine, | ||||||
16 | medication, or other treatment to be administered must not be | ||||||
17 | such as is reasonably likely to lead to serious harm to the | ||||||
18 | affected individual. To prevent the spread of a dangerously | ||||||
19 | contagious or infectious disease, the Department may, pursuant | ||||||
20 | to the provisions of subsection (c) of this Section, isolate or | ||||||
21 | quarantine persons who are unable or unwilling to receive | ||||||
22 | vaccines, medications, or other treatments pursuant to this | ||||||
23 | Section. An individual may refuse to receive vaccines, | ||||||
24 | medications, or other treatments. An individual shall be given | ||||||
25 | a written notice that shall include notice of the following: | ||||||
26 | (i) that the individual may refuse to consent to vaccines, | ||||||
27 | medications, or other treatments; (ii) that if the individual | ||||||
28 | refuses to receive vaccines, medications, or other treatments, | ||||||
29 | the individual may be subject to isolation or quarantine | ||||||
30 | pursuant to the provisions of subsection (c) of this Section; | ||||||
31 | and (iii) that if the individual refuses to receive vaccines, | ||||||
32 | medications, or other treatments and becomes subject to | ||||||
33 | isolation or quarantine as provided in this subsection (e), he | ||||||
34 | or she shall have the right to counsel pursuant to the | ||||||
35 | provisions of subsection (c) of this Section. To the extent | ||||||
36 | feasible without endangering the public's health, the |
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1 | Department shall respect and accommodate the religious beliefs | ||||||
2 | of individuals in implementing this subsection. | ||||||
3 | (f) The Department may order observation and monitoring of | ||||||
4 | persons to prevent the probable spread of a dangerously | ||||||
5 | contagious or infectious disease. To prevent the spread of a | ||||||
6 | dangerously contagious or infectious disease, the Department | ||||||
7 | may, pursuant to the provisions of subsection (c) of this | ||||||
8 | Section, isolate or quarantine persons whose refusal to undergo | ||||||
9 | observation and monitoring results in uncertainty regarding | ||||||
10 | whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a | ||||||
11 | dangerously contagious or infectious disease or otherwise | ||||||
12 | poses a danger to the public's health. An individual may refuse | ||||||
13 | to undergo observation and monitoring. An individual shall be | ||||||
14 | given written notice that shall include notice of the | ||||||
15 | following: (i) that the individual may refuse to undergo | ||||||
16 | observation and monitoring; (ii) that if the individual | ||||||
17 | consents to observation and monitoring, the results of that | ||||||
18 | observation and monitoring may subject the individual to | ||||||
19 | isolation or quarantine pursuant to the provisions of | ||||||
20 | subsection (c) of this Section; (iii) that if the individual | ||||||
21 | refuses to undergo observation and monitoring and that refusal | ||||||
22 | results in uncertainty regarding whether he or she has been | ||||||
23 | exposed to or is infected with a dangerously contagious or | ||||||
24 | infectious disease or otherwise poses a danger to the public's | ||||||
25 | health, the individual may be subject to isolation or | ||||||
26 | quarantine pursuant to the provisions of subsection (c) of this | ||||||
27 | Section; and (iv) that if the individual refuses to undergo | ||||||
28 | observation and monitoring and becomes subject to isolation or | ||||||
29 | quarantine as provided in this subsection (f), he or she shall | ||||||
30 | have the right to counsel pursuant to the provisions of | ||||||
31 | subsection (c) of this Section. | ||||||
32 | (g) To prevent the spread of a dangerously contagious or | ||||||
33 | infectious disease among humans, the Department may examine, | ||||||
34 | test, disinfect, seize, or destroy animals or other related | ||||||
35 | property believed to be sources of infection. An owner of such | ||||||
36 | animal or other related property shall be given written notice |
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1 | regarding such examination, testing, disinfection, seizure, or | ||||||
2 | destruction. When the Department determines that any animal or | ||||||
3 | related property is infected with or has been exposed to a | ||||||
4 | dangerously contagious or infectious disease, it may agree with | ||||||
5 | the owner upon the value of the animal or of any related | ||||||
6 | property that it may be found necessary to destroy, and in case | ||||||
7 | such an agreement cannot be made, the animals or related | ||||||
8 | property shall be appraised by 3 competent and disinterested | ||||||
9 | appraisers, one to be selected by the Department, one by the | ||||||
10 | claimant, and one by the 2 appraisers thus selected. The | ||||||
11 | appraisers shall subscribe to an oath made in writing to fairly | ||||||
12 | value the animals or related property in accordance with the | ||||||
13 | requirements of this Act. The oath, together with the valuation | ||||||
14 | fixed by the appraisers, shall be filed with the Department and | ||||||
15 | preserved by it. Upon the appraisal being made, the owner or | ||||||
16 | the Department shall immediately destroy the animals by "humane | ||||||
17 | euthanasia" as that term is defined in Section 2.09 of the | ||||||
18 | Humane Care for Animals Act. Dogs and cats, however, shall be | ||||||
19 | euthanized pursuant to the provisions of the Humane Euthanasia | ||||||
20 | in Animal Shelters Act. The owner or the Department shall | ||||||
21 | additionally, dispose of the carcasses, and disinfect, change, | ||||||
22 | or destroy the premises occupied by the animals, in accordance | ||||||
23 | with rules prescribed by the Department governing such | ||||||
24 | destruction and disinfection. Upon his or her failure so to do | ||||||
25 | or to cooperate with the Department, the Department shall cause | ||||||
26 | the animals or related property to be destroyed and disposed of | ||||||
27 | in the same manner, and thereupon the owner shall forfeit all | ||||||
28 | right to receive any compensation for the destruction of the | ||||||
29 | animals or related property. All final administrative | ||||||
30 | decisions of the Department hereunder shall be subject to | ||||||
31 | judicial review pursuant to the provisions of the | ||||||
32 | Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and | ||||||
33 | modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto. | ||||||
34 | The term "administrative decision" is defined as in Section | ||||||
35 | 3-101 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
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36 | (h) To prevent the spread of a dangerously contagious or |
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1 | infectious disease, the Department, local boards of health, and | ||||||
2 | local public health authorities shall have emergency access to | ||||||
3 | medical or health information or records or data upon the | ||||||
4 | condition that the Department, local boards of health, and | ||||||
5 | local public health authorities shall protect the privacy and | ||||||
6 | confidentiality of any medical or health information or records | ||||||
7 | or data obtained pursuant to this Section in accordance with | ||||||
8 | federal and State law. Additionally, any such medical or health | ||||||
9 | information or records or data shall be exempt from inspection | ||||||
10 | and copying under the Freedom of Information Act. Other than a | ||||||
11 | hearing for the purpose of this Act, any information, records, | ||||||
12 | reports, statements, notes, memoranda, or other data in the | ||||||
13 | possession of the Department, local boards of health, or local | ||||||
14 | public health authorities shall not be admissible as evidence, | ||||||
15 | nor discoverable in any action of any kind in any court or | ||||||
16 | before any tribunal, board, agency, or person. The access to or | ||||||
17 | disclosure of any of this information or data by the | ||||||
18 | Department, a local board of health, or a local public | ||||||
19 | authority shall not waive or have any effect upon its | ||||||
20 | non-discoverability or non-admissibility. Any person, | ||||||
21 | facility, institution, or agency that provides emergency | ||||||
22 | access to health information and data under this subsection | ||||||
23 | shall have immunity from any civil or criminal liability, or | ||||||
24 | any other type of liability that might otherwise result by | ||||||
25 | reason of these actions except in the event of willful and | ||||||
26 | wanton misconduct. The privileged quality of communication | ||||||
27 | between any professional person or any facility shall not | ||||||
28 | constitute grounds for failure to provide emergency access. | ||||||
29 | Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit the sharing of | ||||||
30 | information as authorized in Section 2.1 of this Act. The | ||||||
31 | disclosure of any of this information, records, reports, | ||||||
32 | statements, notes, memoranda, or other data obtained in any | ||||||
33 | activity under this Act, except that necessary for the purposes | ||||||
34 | of this Act, is unlawful, and any person convicted of violating | ||||||
35 | this provision is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
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36 | (i) (A) The Department, in order to prevent and control |
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1 | disease, injury, or disability among citizens of the State | ||||||
2 | of Illinois, may develop and implement, in consultation | ||||||
3 | with local public health authorities, a Statewide system | ||||||
4 | for syndromic data collection through the access to | ||||||
5 | interoperable networks, information exchanges, and | ||||||
6 | databases. The Department may also develop a system for the | ||||||
7 | reporting of comprehensive, integrated data to identify | ||||||
8 | and address unusual occurrences of disease symptoms and | ||||||
9 | other medical complexes affecting the public's health. | ||||||
10 | (B) The Department may enter into contracts or | ||||||
11 | agreements with individuals, corporations, hospitals, | ||||||
12 | universities, not-for-profit corporations, governmental | ||||||
13 | entities, or other organizations, whereby those | ||||||
14 | individuals or entities agree to provide assistance in the | ||||||
15 | compilation of the syndromic data collection and reporting | ||||||
16 | system.
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17 | (C) The Department shall not release any syndromic data | ||||||
18 | or information obtained pursuant to this subsection to any | ||||||
19 | individuals or entities for purposes other than the | ||||||
20 | protection of the public health. All access to data by the | ||||||
21 | Department, reports made to the Department, the identity of | ||||||
22 | or facts that would tend to lead to the identity of the | ||||||
23 | individual who is the subject of the report, and the | ||||||
24 | identity of or facts that would tend to lead to the | ||||||
25 | identity of the author of the report shall be strictly | ||||||
26 | confidential, are not subject to inspection or | ||||||
27 | dissemination, and shall be used only for public health | ||||||
28 | purposes by the Department, local public health | ||||||
29 | authorities, or the Centers for Disease Control and | ||||||
30 | Prevention. Entities or individuals submitting reports or | ||||||
31 | providing access to the Department shall not be held liable | ||||||
32 | for the release of information or confidential data to the | ||||||
33 | Department in accordance with this subsection.
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34 | (D) Nothing in this subsection prohibits the sharing of | ||||||
35 | information as authorized in Section 2.1 of this Act.
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36 | (j)
(d) This Section shall be considered supplemental to |
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1 | the existing
authority and powers of the Department and shall | ||||||
2 | not be construed to
restrain or restrict the Department in | ||||||
3 | protecting the public health under any
other provisions of the | ||||||
4 | law.
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5 | (k)
(e) Any person who knowingly or maliciously | ||||||
6 | disseminates any false
information or report concerning the | ||||||
7 | existence of any dangerously contagious or
infectious disease | ||||||
8 | in connection with the Department's power of quarantine,
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9 | isolation and closure or refuses to comply with a quarantine, | ||||||
10 | isolation or
closure order is guilty
of a Class A misdemeanor.
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11 | (l)
(f) The Department of Public Health may establish and | ||||||
12 | maintain a
chemical
and bacteriologic laboratory for the | ||||||
13 | examination of water and wastes, and
for the diagnosis of | ||||||
14 | diphtheria, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, malarial
fever and | ||||||
15 | such other diseases as it deems necessary for the protection of
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16 | the public health.
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17 | As used in this Act, "locality" means any governmental | ||||||
18 | agency which
exercises power pertaining to public health in an | ||||||
19 | area less than the State.
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20 | The terms "sanitary investigations and inspections" and | ||||||
21 | "sanitary
practices" as used in this Act shall not include or | ||||||
22 | apply to "Public Water
Supplies" or "Sewage Works" as defined | ||||||
23 | in the Environmental Protection Act. The Department may adopt | ||||||
24 | rules that are reasonable and necessary to implement and | ||||||
25 | effectuate this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.
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26 | (Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
| ||||||
27 | (20 ILCS 2305/2.1 new) | ||||||
28 | Sec. 2.1. Information sharing. | ||||||
29 | (a) Whenever a State or local law enforcement authority | ||||||
30 | learns of a case of an illness, health condition, or unusual | ||||||
31 | disease or symptom cluster, reportable pursuant to rules | ||||||
32 | adopted by the Department or by a local board of health or | ||||||
33 | local public health authority, or a suspicious event that may | ||||||
34 | be the cause of or related to a public health emergency, as | ||||||
35 | that term is defined in Section 4 of the Illinois Emergency |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | Management Agency Act, it shall immediately notify the Illinois | ||||||
2 | Emergency Management Agency and the Department or local board | ||||||
3 | of health or local public health authority. | ||||||
4 | (b) Whenever the Department or a local board of health or | ||||||
5 | local public health authority learns of a case of an illness, | ||||||
6 | health condition, or unusual disease or symptom cluster, | ||||||
7 | reportable pursuant to rules adopted by the Department or by a | ||||||
8 | local board of health or a local public health authority, or a | ||||||
9 | suspicious event that it reasonably believes has the potential | ||||||
10 | to be the cause of or related to a public health emergency, as | ||||||
11 | that term is defined in Section 4 of the Illinois Emergency | ||||||
12 | Management Agency Act, it shall immediately notify the Illinois | ||||||
13 | Emergency Management Agency, the appropriate State and local | ||||||
14 | law enforcement authorities, other appropriate State agencies, | ||||||
15 | and federal health and law enforcement authorities and, after | ||||||
16 | that notification, it shall provide law enforcement | ||||||
17 | authorities with such other information as law enforcement | ||||||
18 | authorities may request for the purpose of conducting a | ||||||
19 | criminal investigation or a criminal prosecution of or arising | ||||||
20 | out of that matter. No information containing the identity or | ||||||
21 | tending to reveal the identity of any person may be redisclosed | ||||||
22 | by law enforcement, except in a prosecution of that person for | ||||||
23 | the commission of a crime.
| ||||||
24 | (c) Sharing of information on reportable illnesses, health | ||||||
25 | conditions, unusual disease or symptom clusters, or suspicious | ||||||
26 | events between and among public health and law enforcement | ||||||
27 | authorities shall be restricted to the information necessary | ||||||
28 | for the treatment in response to, control of, investigation of, | ||||||
29 | and prevention of a public health emergency, as that term is | ||||||
30 | defined in Section 4 of the Illinois Emergency Management Act, | ||||||
31 | or for criminal investigation or criminal prosecution of or | ||||||
32 | arising out of that matter.
| ||||||
33 | (d) The operation of the language of this Section is not | ||||||
34 | dependent upon a declaration of disaster by the Governor | ||||||
35 | pursuant to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act.
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| |||||||
1 | (20 ILCS 2305/7) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 22.05)
| ||||||
2 | Sec. 7. The Illinois Department of Public Health shall | ||||||
3 | adopt rules
requiring that upon death of a person who had or is | ||||||
4 | suspected of having an
infectious or communicable disease that | ||||||
5 | could be transmitted through
contact with the person's body or | ||||||
6 | bodily fluids, the body shall be labeled
"Infection Hazard", or | ||||||
7 | with an equivalent term to inform persons having
subsequent | ||||||
8 | contact with the body, including any funeral director or
| ||||||
9 | embalmer, to take suitable precautions. Such rules shall | ||||||
10 | require that the
label shall be prominently displayed on and | ||||||
11 | affixed to the outer wrapping
or covering of the body if the | ||||||
12 | body is wrapped or covered in any manner.
Responsibility for | ||||||
13 | such labeling shall lie with the attending physician who
| ||||||
14 | certifies death, or if the death occurs in a health care | ||||||
15 | facility, with
such staff member as may be designated by the | ||||||
16 | administrator of the facility. The Department may adopt rules | ||||||
17 | providing for the safe disposal of human remains. To the extent | ||||||
18 | feasible without endangering the public's health, the | ||||||
19 | Department shall respect and accommodate the religious beliefs | ||||||
20 | of individuals in implementing this Section.
| ||||||
21 | (Source: P.A. 85-1209.)
| ||||||
22 | Section 15. The Department of Public Health Powers and | ||||||
23 | Duties Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is | ||||||
24 | amended by changing Sections 2310-5, 2310-35, and 2310-50.5 and | ||||||
25 | by adding Sections 2310-610, 2310-615, 2310-620, and 2310-625 | ||||||
26 | as follows:
| ||||||
27 | (20 ILCS 2310/2310-5)
| ||||||
28 | Sec. 2310-5. Definitions. In this Law:
| ||||||
29 | "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
| ||||||
30 | "Director" means the Director of Public Health. | ||||||
31 | "Public health emergency" has the meaning set forth in | ||||||
32 | Section 4 of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act.
| ||||||
33 | (Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
|
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | (20 ILCS 2310/2310-35) (was 20 ILCS 2310/55.27)
| ||||||
2 | Sec. 2310-35. Federal monies ; indirect cost | ||||||
3 | reimbursements . To accept, receive, and
receipt for
federal | ||||||
4 | monies, for
and in
behalf of the State, given by the federal | ||||||
5 | government under any federal law
to the State for health | ||||||
6 | purposes, surveys, or programs, and to adopt
necessary rules | ||||||
7 | pertaining thereto pursuant to the Illinois Administrative
| ||||||
8 | Procedure Act. To deposit indirect cost reimbursements | ||||||
9 | received by the Department into the Public Health Special State | ||||||
10 | Projects Fund, and to expend those funds, subject to | ||||||
11 | appropriation, for public health purposes only.
| ||||||
12 | (Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
| ||||||
13 | (20 ILCS 2310/2310-50.5)
| ||||||
14 | Sec. 2310-50.5. Coordination concerning public health | ||||||
15 | emergencies. To
coordinate with the Illinois Emergency | ||||||
16 | Management Agency with
respect to planning for and responding | ||||||
17 | to public health emergencies, as defined
in Section 4 of the | ||||||
18 | Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act. The Department shall | ||||||
19 | additionally cooperate with the Governor, other State agencies | ||||||
20 | and local authorities, including local public health | ||||||
21 | authorities, in the development of strategies and plans to | ||||||
22 | protect the public health in the event of a public health | ||||||
23 | emergency, as defined in Section 4 of the Illinois Emergency | ||||||
24 | Management Agency Act.
| ||||||
25 | (Source: P.A. 93-249, eff. 7-22-03.)
| ||||||
26 | (20 ILCS 2310/2310-610 new) | ||||||
27 | Sec. 2310-610. Rules; public health preparedness. The | ||||||
28 | Department shall adopt and implement rules, contact lists, and | ||||||
29 | response plans governing public health preparedness and | ||||||
30 | response. | ||||||
31 | (20 ILCS 2310/2310-615 new) | ||||||
32 | Sec. 2310-615. Department coordination; public health | ||||||
33 | preparedness. The Department shall require and coordinate |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | development and implementation of public health preparedness | ||||||
2 | and response plans by local health departments and facilities | ||||||
3 | licensed by the Department. | ||||||
4 | (20 ILCS 2310/2310-620 new) | ||||||
5 | Sec. 2310-620. Cooperation; public health preparedness. | ||||||
6 | The Department shall collaborate with relevant federal | ||||||
7 | government authorities, State agencies, local authorities, | ||||||
8 | including local public health authorities, elected officials | ||||||
9 | from other states, and private sector organizations on public | ||||||
10 | health preparedness and response. | ||||||
11 | (20 ILCS 2310/2310-625 new)
| ||||||
12 | Sec. 2310-625. Emergency Powers. | ||||||
13 | (a) Upon proclamation of a disaster by the Governor, as | ||||||
14 | provided for in the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act, | ||||||
15 | the Director of Public Health shall have the following powers, | ||||||
16 | which shall be exercised only in coordination with the Illinois | ||||||
17 | Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Professional | ||||||
18 | Regulation: | ||||||
19 | (1) The power to suspend the requirements for temporary | ||||||
20 | or permanent licensure or certification of persons who are | ||||||
21 | licensed or certified in another state and are working | ||||||
22 | under the direction of the Illinois Emergency Management | ||||||
23 | Agency and the Illinois Department of Public Health | ||||||
24 | pursuant to the declared disaster. | ||||||
25 | (2) The power to modify the scope of practice | ||||||
26 | restrictions under the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) | ||||||
27 | Systems Act for any persons who are licensed under that Act | ||||||
28 | for any person working under the direction of the Illinois | ||||||
29 | Emergency Management Agency and the Illinois Department of | ||||||
30 | Public Health pursuant to the declared disaster. | ||||||
31 | (3) The power to modify the scope of practice | ||||||
32 | restrictions under the Nursing Home Care Act for Certified | ||||||
33 | Nursing Assistants for any person working under the | ||||||
34 | direction of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | the Illinois Department of Public Health pursuant to the | ||||||
2 | declared disaster. | ||||||
3 | (b) Persons exempt from licensure or certification under | ||||||
4 | paragraph (1) of subsection (a) and persons operating under | ||||||
5 | modified scope of practice provisions under paragraph (2) of | ||||||
6 | subsection (a) and paragraph (3) of subsection (a) shall be | ||||||
7 | exempt from licensure or certification or subject to modified | ||||||
8 | scope of practice only until the declared disaster has ended as | ||||||
9 | provided by law. | ||||||
10 | (c) The Director shall exercise these powers by way of | ||||||
11 | proclamation.
| ||||||
12 | Section 20. The Illinois Clinical Laboratory and Blood Bank | ||||||
13 | Act is amended by changing Section 7-102 as follows:
| ||||||
14 | (210 ILCS 25/7-102) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 627-102)
| ||||||
15 | Sec. 7-102. Reports of test results. The result of a test | ||||||
16 | shall be reported
directly to the licensed physician or other | ||||||
17 | authorized person who requested it.
No interpretation, | ||||||
18 | diagnosis or prognosis or suggested treatment shall appear
on | ||||||
19 | the laboratory report form except that a report made by a | ||||||
20 | physician licensed
to practice medicine in Illinois, a dentist | ||||||
21 | licensed in Illinois, or a
therapeutic optometrist may
include | ||||||
22 | such information. Nothing in this Act prohibits the sharing of | ||||||
23 | information as authorized in Section 2.1 of the Department of | ||||||
24 | Public Health Act.
| ||||||
25 | (Source: P.A. 90-322, eff. 1-1-98.)
| ||||||
26 | Section 25. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems | ||||||
27 | Act is amended by adding Section 3.255 as follows: | ||||||
28 | (210 ILCS 50/3.255 new) | ||||||
29 | Sec. 3.255. Emergency Medical Disaster Plan. The | ||||||
30 | Department shall develop and implement an
Emergency Medical | ||||||
31 | Disaster Plan to assist emergency medical services personnel | ||||||
32 | and health care facilities in working together in a |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | collaborative way and to provide support in situations where | ||||||
2 | local medical resources are overwhelmed, including but not | ||||||
3 | limited to public health emergencies, as that term is defined | ||||||
4 | in Section 4 of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act. | ||||||
5 | As part of the plan, the Department may designate lead | ||||||
6 | hospitals in each Emergency Medical Services region | ||||||
7 | established under this Act and may foster the creation and | ||||||
8 | coordination of volunteer medical response teams that can be | ||||||
9 | deployed to assist when a locality's capacity is overwhelmed. | ||||||
10 | In developing an Emergency Medical Disaster Plan, the | ||||||
11 | Department shall collaborate with the entities listed in | ||||||
12 | Sections 2310-50.5 and 2310-620 of the Department of Public | ||||||
13 | Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code | ||||||
14 | of Illinois. | ||||||
15 | Section 30. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by | ||||||
16 | changing Section 10.4 as follows:
| ||||||
17 | (210 ILCS 85/10.4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 151.4)
| ||||||
18 | Sec. 10.4. Medical staff privileges.
| ||||||
19 | (a) Any hospital licensed under this Act or any hospital | ||||||
20 | organized under the
University of Illinois Hospital Act shall, | ||||||
21 | prior to the granting of any medical
staff privileges to an | ||||||
22 | applicant, or renewing a current medical staff member's
| ||||||
23 | privileges, request of the Director of Professional Regulation | ||||||
24 | information
concerning the licensure status and any | ||||||
25 | disciplinary action taken against the
applicant's or medical | ||||||
26 | staff member's license, except : (1) for medical personnel who
| ||||||
27 | enter a hospital to obtain organs and tissues for transplant | ||||||
28 | from a deceased
donor in accordance with the Uniform Anatomical | ||||||
29 | Gift Act ; or (2) for medical personnel who have been granted | ||||||
30 | disaster privileges pursuant to the procedures and | ||||||
31 | requirements established by rules adopted by the Department. | ||||||
32 | Any hospital and any employees of the hospital or others | ||||||
33 | involved in granting privileges that, in good faith, grants | ||||||
34 | disaster privileges pursuant to this Section to respond to an |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | emergency shall not, as a result of his, her, or its acts or | ||||||
2 | omissions, be liable for civil damages for granting or denying | ||||||
3 | disaster privileges except in the event of willful and wanton | ||||||
4 | misconduct, as that term is defined in Section 10.2 of this | ||||||
5 | Act. Individuals granted privileges who provide care in an | ||||||
6 | emergency situation, in good faith and without direct | ||||||
7 | compensation, shall not, as a result of his or her acts or | ||||||
8 | omissions, except for acts or omissions involving willful and | ||||||
9 | wanton misconduct, as that term is defined in Section 10.2 of | ||||||
10 | this Act, on the part of the person, be liable for civil | ||||||
11 | damages . The Director of
Professional Regulation shall | ||||||
12 | transmit, in writing and in a timely fashion,
such information | ||||||
13 | regarding the license of the applicant or the medical staff
| ||||||
14 | member, including the record of imposition of any periods of
| ||||||
15 | supervision or monitoring as a result of alcohol or
substance | ||||||
16 | abuse, as provided by Section 23 of the Medical
Practice Act of | ||||||
17 | 1987, and such information as may have been
submitted to the | ||||||
18 | Department indicating that the application
or medical staff | ||||||
19 | member has been denied, or has surrendered,
medical staff | ||||||
20 | privileges at a hospital licensed under this
Act, or any | ||||||
21 | equivalent facility in another state or
territory of the United | ||||||
22 | States. The Director of Professional Regulation
shall define by | ||||||
23 | rule the period for timely response to such requests.
| ||||||
24 | No transmittal of information by the Director of | ||||||
25 | Professional Regulation,
under this Section shall be to other | ||||||
26 | than the president, chief
operating officer, chief | ||||||
27 | administrative officer, or chief of
the medical staff of a | ||||||
28 | hospital licensed under this Act, a
hospital organized under | ||||||
29 | the University of Illinois Hospital Act, or a hospital
operated | ||||||
30 | by the United States, or any of its instrumentalities. The
| ||||||
31 | information so transmitted shall be afforded the same status
as | ||||||
32 | is information concerning medical studies by Part 21 of Article | ||||||
33 | VIII of the
Code of Civil Procedure, as now or hereafter | ||||||
34 | amended.
| ||||||
35 | (b) All hospitals licensed under this Act, except county | ||||||
36 | hospitals as
defined in subsection (c) of Section 15-1 of the |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | Illinois Public Aid Code,
shall comply with, and the medical | ||||||
2 | staff bylaws of these hospitals shall
include rules consistent | ||||||
3 | with, the provisions of this Section in granting,
limiting, | ||||||
4 | renewing, or denying medical staff membership and
clinical | ||||||
5 | staff privileges. Hospitals that require medical staff members | ||||||
6 | to
possess
faculty status with a specific institution of higher | ||||||
7 | education are not required
to comply with subsection (1) below | ||||||
8 | when the physician does not possess faculty
status.
| ||||||
9 | (1) Minimum procedures for
pre-applicants and | ||||||
10 | applicants for medical staff
membership shall include the | ||||||
11 | following:
| ||||||
12 | (A) Written procedures relating to the acceptance | ||||||
13 | and processing of
pre-applicants or applicants for | ||||||
14 | medical staff membership, which should be
contained in
| ||||||
15 | medical staff bylaws.
| ||||||
16 | (B) Written procedures to be followed in | ||||||
17 | determining
a pre-applicant's or
an applicant's
| ||||||
18 | qualifications for being granted medical staff | ||||||
19 | membership and privileges.
| ||||||
20 | (C) Written criteria to be followed in evaluating
a | ||||||
21 | pre-applicant's or
an applicant's
qualifications.
| ||||||
22 | (D) An evaluation of
a pre-applicant's or
an | ||||||
23 | applicant's current health status and current
license | ||||||
24 | status in Illinois.
| ||||||
25 | (E) A written response to each
pre-applicant or
| ||||||
26 | applicant that explains the reason or
reasons for any | ||||||
27 | adverse decision (including all reasons based in whole | ||||||
28 | or
in part on the applicant's medical qualifications or | ||||||
29 | any other basis,
including economic factors).
| ||||||
30 | (2) Minimum procedures with respect to medical staff | ||||||
31 | and clinical
privilege determinations concerning current | ||||||
32 | members of the medical staff shall
include the following:
| ||||||
33 | (A) A written notice of an adverse decision.
| ||||||
34 | (B) An explanation of the reasons for an adverse | ||||||
35 | decision including all
reasons based on the quality of | ||||||
36 | medical care or any other basis, including
economic |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | factors.
| ||||||
2 | (C) A statement of the medical staff member's right | ||||||
3 | to request a fair
hearing on the adverse decision | ||||||
4 | before a hearing panel whose membership is
mutually | ||||||
5 | agreed upon by the medical staff and the hospital | ||||||
6 | governing board. The
hearing panel shall have | ||||||
7 | independent authority to recommend action to the
| ||||||
8 | hospital governing board. Upon the request of the | ||||||
9 | medical staff member or the
hospital governing board, | ||||||
10 | the hearing panel shall make findings concerning the
| ||||||
11 | nature of each basis for any adverse decision | ||||||
12 | recommended to and accepted by
the hospital governing | ||||||
13 | board.
| ||||||
14 | (i) Nothing in this subparagraph (C) limits a | ||||||
15 | hospital's or medical
staff's right to summarily | ||||||
16 | suspend, without a prior hearing, a person's | ||||||
17 | medical
staff membership or clinical privileges if | ||||||
18 | the continuation of practice of a
medical staff | ||||||
19 | member constitutes an immediate danger to the | ||||||
20 | public, including
patients, visitors, and hospital | ||||||
21 | employees and staff. A fair hearing shall be
| ||||||
22 | commenced within 15 days after the suspension and | ||||||
23 | completed without delay.
| ||||||
24 | (ii) Nothing in this subparagraph (C) limits a | ||||||
25 | medical staff's right
to permit, in the medical | ||||||
26 | staff bylaws, summary suspension of membership or
| ||||||
27 | clinical privileges in designated administrative | ||||||
28 | circumstances as specifically
approved by the | ||||||
29 | medical staff. This bylaw provision must | ||||||
30 | specifically describe
both the administrative | ||||||
31 | circumstance that can result in a summary | ||||||
32 | suspension
and the length of the summary | ||||||
33 | suspension. The opportunity for a fair hearing is
| ||||||
34 | required for any administrative summary | ||||||
35 | suspension. Any requested hearing must
be | ||||||
36 | commenced within 15 days after the summary |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | suspension and completed without
delay. Adverse | ||||||
2 | decisions other than suspension or other | ||||||
3 | restrictions on the
treatment or admission of | ||||||
4 | patients may be imposed summarily and without a
| ||||||
5 | hearing under designated administrative | ||||||
6 | circumstances as specifically provided
for in the | ||||||
7 | medical staff bylaws as approved by the medical | ||||||
8 | staff.
| ||||||
9 | (iii) If a hospital exercises its option to | ||||||
10 | enter into an exclusive
contract and that contract | ||||||
11 | results in the total or partial termination or
| ||||||
12 | reduction of medical staff membership or clinical | ||||||
13 | privileges of a current
medical staff member, the | ||||||
14 | hospital shall provide the affected medical staff
| ||||||
15 | member 60 days prior notice of the effect on his or | ||||||
16 | her medical staff
membership or privileges. An | ||||||
17 | affected medical staff member desiring a hearing
| ||||||
18 | under subparagraph (C) of this paragraph (2) must | ||||||
19 | request the hearing within 14
days after the date | ||||||
20 | he or she is so notified. The requested hearing | ||||||
21 | shall be
commenced and completed (with a report and | ||||||
22 | recommendation to the affected
medical staff | ||||||
23 | member, hospital governing board, and medical | ||||||
24 | staff) within 30
days after the date of the medical | ||||||
25 | staff member's request. If agreed upon by
both the | ||||||
26 | medical staff and the hospital governing board, | ||||||
27 | the medical staff
bylaws may provide for longer | ||||||
28 | time periods.
| ||||||
29 | (D) A statement of the member's right to inspect | ||||||
30 | all pertinent
information in the hospital's possession | ||||||
31 | with respect to the decision.
| ||||||
32 | (E) A statement of the member's right to present | ||||||
33 | witnesses and other
evidence at the hearing on the | ||||||
34 | decision.
| ||||||
35 | (F) A written notice and written explanation of the | ||||||
36 | decision resulting
from the hearing.
|
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | (F-5) A written notice of a final adverse decision | ||||||
2 | by a hospital
governing board.
| ||||||
3 | (G) Notice given 15 days before implementation of | ||||||
4 | an adverse medical
staff membership or clinical | ||||||
5 | privileges decision based substantially on
economic | ||||||
6 | factors. This notice shall be given after the medical | ||||||
7 | staff member
exhausts all applicable procedures under | ||||||
8 | this Section, including item (iii) of
subparagraph (C) | ||||||
9 | of this paragraph (2), and under the medical staff | ||||||
10 | bylaws in
order to allow sufficient time for the | ||||||
11 | orderly provision of patient care.
| ||||||
12 | (H) Nothing in this paragraph (2) of this | ||||||
13 | subsection (b) limits a
medical staff member's right to | ||||||
14 | waive, in writing, the rights provided in
| ||||||
15 | subparagraphs (A) through (G) of this paragraph (2) of | ||||||
16 | this subsection (b) upon
being granted the written | ||||||
17 | exclusive right to provide particular services at a
| ||||||
18 | hospital, either individually or as a member of a | ||||||
19 | group. If an exclusive
contract is signed by a | ||||||
20 | representative of a group of physicians, a waiver
| ||||||
21 | contained in the contract shall apply to all members of | ||||||
22 | the group unless stated
otherwise in the contract.
| ||||||
23 | (3) Every adverse medical staff membership and | ||||||
24 | clinical privilege decision
based substantially on | ||||||
25 | economic factors shall be reported to the Hospital
| ||||||
26 | Licensing Board before the decision takes effect. These | ||||||
27 | reports shall not be
disclosed in any form that reveals the | ||||||
28 | identity of any hospital or physician.
These reports shall | ||||||
29 | be utilized to study the effects that hospital medical
| ||||||
30 | staff membership and clinical privilege decisions based | ||||||
31 | upon economic factors
have on access to care and the | ||||||
32 | availability of physician services. The
Hospital Licensing | ||||||
33 | Board shall submit an initial study to the Governor and the
| ||||||
34 | General Assembly by January 1, 1996, and subsequent reports | ||||||
35 | shall be submitted
periodically thereafter.
| ||||||
36 | (4) As used in this Section:
|
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | "Adverse decision" means a decision reducing, | ||||||
2 | restricting, suspending,
revoking, denying, or not | ||||||
3 | renewing medical staff membership or clinical
privileges.
| ||||||
4 | "Economic factor" means any information or reasons for | ||||||
5 | decisions unrelated
to quality of care or professional | ||||||
6 | competency.
| ||||||
7 | "Pre-applicant" means a physician licensed to practice | ||||||
8 | medicine in all
its
branches who requests an application | ||||||
9 | for medical staff membership or
privileges.
| ||||||
10 | "Privilege" means permission to provide
medical or | ||||||
11 | other patient care services and permission to use hospital
| ||||||
12 | resources, including equipment, facilities and personnel | ||||||
13 | that are necessary to
effectively provide medical or other | ||||||
14 | patient care services. This definition
shall not be | ||||||
15 | construed to
require a hospital to acquire additional | ||||||
16 | equipment, facilities, or personnel to
accommodate the | ||||||
17 | granting of privileges.
| ||||||
18 | (5) Any amendment to medical staff bylaws required | ||||||
19 | because of
this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly | ||||||
20 | shall be adopted on or
before July 1, 2001.
| ||||||
21 | (c) All hospitals shall consult with the medical staff | ||||||
22 | prior to closing
membership in the entire or any portion of the | ||||||
23 | medical staff or a department.
If
the hospital closes | ||||||
24 | membership in the medical staff, any portion of the medical
| ||||||
25 | staff, or the department over the objections of the medical | ||||||
26 | staff, then the
hospital
shall provide a detailed written | ||||||
27 | explanation for the decision to the medical
staff
10 days prior | ||||||
28 | to the effective date of any closure. No applications need to | ||||||
29 | be
provided when membership in the medical staff or any | ||||||
30 | relevant portion of the
medical staff is closed.
| ||||||
31 | (Source: P.A. 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-149, eff. 1-1-98; 90-655, | ||||||
32 | eff.
7-30-98; 91-166, eff. 1-1-00.)
| ||||||
33 | Section 35. The Health Care Professional Credentials Data | ||||||
34 | Collection Act is amended by changing Section 15 as follows:
|
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | (410 ILCS 517/15)
| ||||||
2 | Sec. 15.
Development and use of uniform health care and | ||||||
3 | hospital
credentials forms.
| ||||||
4 | (a) The Department, in consultation with the council, shall | ||||||
5 | by rule
establish:
| ||||||
6 | (1) a uniform health care credentials form that shall | ||||||
7 | include the
credentials data commonly requested by health | ||||||
8 | care entities
and health care plans for purposes of | ||||||
9 | credentialing and shall minimize the
need for the | ||||||
10 | collection of
additional credentials data;
| ||||||
11 | (2) a uniform health care recredentials form that shall | ||||||
12 | include the
credentials data commonly requested by health | ||||||
13 | care entities and health care
plans for purposes of | ||||||
14 | recredentialing and shall minimize the need for the
| ||||||
15 | collection of additional credentials data;
| ||||||
16 | (3) a uniform hospital credentials form that shall | ||||||
17 | include the credentials
data commonly requested by | ||||||
18 | hospitals for purposes of credentialing and
shall
minimize | ||||||
19 | the need for the collection of additional credentials data;
| ||||||
20 | (4) a uniform hospital recredentials form that shall | ||||||
21 | include the
credentials data commonly requested by | ||||||
22 | hospitals for purposes of
recredentialing and shall | ||||||
23 | minimize the need for collection of additional
credentials | ||||||
24 | data; and
| ||||||
25 | (5) uniform updating forms.
| ||||||
26 | (b) The uniform forms established in subsection (a) shall | ||||||
27 | be coordinated to
reduce the need to provide redundant | ||||||
28 | information.
Further, the forms shall be made available in both | ||||||
29 | paper and electronic
formats.
| ||||||
30 | (c) The Department, in consultation with the council, shall
| ||||||
31 | establish by rule a date after which an electronic format may | ||||||
32 | be
required by a health care entity, a health care plan, or a | ||||||
33 | hospital, and a
health care professional may require acceptance | ||||||
34 | of an electronic
format by a health care entity, a health care | ||||||
35 | plan, or a hospital.
| ||||||
36 | (d) Beginning January 1, 2002, each health care
entity or |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | health
care plan that
employs, contracts with, or allows health | ||||||
2 | care
professionals to provide medical or health care services | ||||||
3 | and requires health
care professionals to be credentialed or | ||||||
4 | recredentialed shall for
purposes of collecting credentials | ||||||
5 | data only require:
| ||||||
6 | (1) the uniform health care credentials form;
| ||||||
7 | (2) the uniform health care recredentials form;
| ||||||
8 | (3) the uniform updating forms; and
| ||||||
9 | (4) any additional credentials data requested.
| ||||||
10 | (e) Beginning January 1, 2002, each hospital that
employs,
| ||||||
11 | contracts with, or
allows health care professionals to provide | ||||||
12 | medical or
health care services and requires health care | ||||||
13 | professionals to be credentialed
or recredentialed shall for | ||||||
14 | purposes of collecting credentials
data only require:
| ||||||
15 | (1) the uniform hospital credentials form;
| ||||||
16 | (2) the uniform hospital recredentials form;
| ||||||
17 | (3) the uniform updating forms; and
| ||||||
18 | (4) any additional credentials data requested.
| ||||||
19 | (f) Each health care entity and health care plan shall | ||||||
20 | complete the process
of verifying a health care professional's | ||||||
21 | credentials data
in a timely fashion and shall complete the | ||||||
22 | process of credentialing or
recredentialing of the health care | ||||||
23 | professional within 60 days after
submission of all credentials | ||||||
24 | data and completion of verification of the
credentials data.
| ||||||
25 | (g) Each health care professional shall provide any | ||||||
26 | corrections, updates,
and modifications to his or her | ||||||
27 | credentials data to ensure
that all credentials data on the | ||||||
28 | health care professional remains current.
Such corrections, | ||||||
29 | updates, and modifications shall be provided within
5 business | ||||||
30 | days for State health care professional license revocation, | ||||||
31 | federal
Drug
Enforcement Agency license revocation,
Medicare | ||||||
32 | or Medicaid sanctions, revocation of hospital privileges, any | ||||||
33 | lapse
in professional liability coverage required by a health | ||||||
34 | care entity, health
care plan, or hospital,
or conviction of a | ||||||
35 | felony, and within 45 days for any
other
change in the | ||||||
36 | information from the date the health care professional knew of
|
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | the change. All updates shall be made on the uniform updating
| ||||||
2 | forms developed by the Department.
| ||||||
3 | (h) Any credentials data collected or obtained by the | ||||||
4 | health care entity,
health care plan, or hospital shall be | ||||||
5 | confidential, as provided by law,
and otherwise may not be | ||||||
6 | redisclosed without written consent of the
health care | ||||||
7 | professional, except that in any proceeding to challenge
| ||||||
8 | credentialing or recredentialing, or in any judicial review, | ||||||
9 | the claim
of confidentiality shall not be invoked to deny a | ||||||
10 | health care professional,
health care entity,
health care plan, | ||||||
11 | or hospital access to or use of credentials data. Nothing in
| ||||||
12 | this Section prevents a health
care entity, health care plan, | ||||||
13 | or hospital from disclosing any credentials data
to its | ||||||
14 | officers, directors, employees, agents, subcontractors,
| ||||||
15 | medical staff members, any committee of the health care entity, | ||||||
16 | health care
plan, or hospital involved in the credentialing | ||||||
17 | process, or
accreditation bodies or licensing agencies. | ||||||
18 | However, any redisclosure of
credentials data contrary to this | ||||||
19 | Section is prohibited.
| ||||||
20 | (i) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to restrict the | ||||||
21 | right of any
health care entity, health care plan or hospital | ||||||
22 | to request additional
information necessary for credentialing | ||||||
23 | or recredentialing.
| ||||||
24 | (j) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to restrict in | ||||||
25 | any way the
authority of any health care entity, health care | ||||||
26 | plan or hospital to
approve, suspend or deny an application for | ||||||
27 | hospital staff membership, clinical
privileges, or managed | ||||||
28 | care network participation.
| ||||||
29 | (k) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit | ||||||
30 | delegation of
credentialing and recredentialing activities as | ||||||
31 | long as the delegated
entity follows the requirements set forth | ||||||
32 | in this Act.
| ||||||
33 | (l) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require any | ||||||
34 | health care
entity or health care plan to credential or survey | ||||||
35 | any health care
professional. | ||||||
36 | (m) Nothing in this Act prohibits a hospital from granting |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | disaster privileges pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.4 | ||||||
2 | of the Hospital Licensing Act. When a hospital grants disaster | ||||||
3 | privileges pursuant to Section 10.4 of the Hospital Licensing | ||||||
4 | Act, that hospital is not required to collect credentials data | ||||||
5 | pursuant to this Act.
| ||||||
6 | (Source: P.A. 91-602, eff. 8-16-99; 92-193, eff. 1-1-02.)
| ||||||
7 | Section 40. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by | ||||||
8 | changing Sections 1-105 and 12-215 as follows:
| ||||||
9 | (625 ILCS 5/1-105) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 1-105)
| ||||||
10 | Sec. 1-105. Authorized emergency vehicle. Emergency | ||||||
11 | vehicles of municipal departments or public service
| ||||||
12 | corporations as are designated or authorized by proper local | ||||||
13 | authorities;
police vehicles; vehicles of the fire department; | ||||||
14 | ambulances;
vehicles of the Illinois Emergency Management | ||||||
15 | Agency; vehicles of the Illinois Department of Public Health;
| ||||||
16 | and vehicles of the
Department of Nuclear Safety.
| ||||||
17 | (Source: P.A. 92-138, eff. 7-24-01.)
| ||||||
18 | (625 ILCS 5/12-215) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-215)
| ||||||
19 | Sec. 12-215. Oscillating, rotating or flashing lights on | ||||||
20 | motor vehicles. Except as otherwise provided in this Code:
| ||||||
21 | (a) The use of red or white oscillating, rotating or | ||||||
22 | flashing lights,
whether lighted or unlighted, is prohibited | ||||||
23 | except on:
| ||||||
24 | 1. Law enforcement vehicles of State, Federal or
local | ||||||
25 | authorities;
| ||||||
26 | 2. A vehicle operated by a police officer or county | ||||||
27 | coroner
and designated or authorized by local authorities, | ||||||
28 | in writing, as a law
enforcement vehicle; however, such | ||||||
29 | designation or authorization must
be carried in the | ||||||
30 | vehicle;
| ||||||
31 | 3. Vehicles of local fire departments and State or | ||||||
32 | federal
firefighting vehicles;
| ||||||
33 | 4. Vehicles which are designed and used exclusively as |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | ambulances
or rescue vehicles; furthermore, such lights | ||||||
2 | shall not be lighted except
when responding to an emergency | ||||||
3 | call for and while actually conveying the
sick or injured;
| ||||||
4 | 5. Tow trucks licensed in a state that requires such | ||||||
5 | lights;
furthermore, such lights shall not be lighted on | ||||||
6 | any such tow truck while the
tow truck is
operating in the | ||||||
7 | State of Illinois;
| ||||||
8 | 6. Vehicles of the Illinois Emergency Management | ||||||
9 | Agency, vehicles of the Illinois Department of Public | ||||||
10 | Health, and vehicles of
the
Department of Nuclear Safety;
| ||||||
11 | 7. Vehicles operated by a local or county emergency | ||||||
12 | management
services agency as defined in the Illinois | ||||||
13 | Emergency
Management Agency Act; and
| ||||||
14 | 8. School buses operating alternately flashing head | ||||||
15 | lamps as permitted
under Section 12-805 of this Code.
| ||||||
16 | (b) The use of amber oscillating, rotating or flashing | ||||||
17 | lights, whether
lighted or unlighted, is prohibited except on:
| ||||||
18 | 1. Second division vehicles designed and used for | ||||||
19 | towing or hoisting
vehicles; furthermore, such lights | ||||||
20 | shall not be lighted except as
required in
this paragraph | ||||||
21 | 1; such lights shall be lighted
when such vehicles are | ||||||
22 | actually being
used at the scene of an accident or
| ||||||
23 | disablement; if the towing vehicle is equipped with a flat | ||||||
24 | bed that
supports all wheels of the vehicle being | ||||||
25 | transported, the lights shall not be
lighted while the | ||||||
26 | vehicle is engaged in towing on a highway; if the towing
| ||||||
27 | vehicle is not equipped with a flat bed that supports all | ||||||
28 | wheels of a vehicle
being transported, the lights shall be | ||||||
29 | lighted while the
towing
vehicle is engaged in towing on a | ||||||
30 | highway during all
times when the use
of headlights is | ||||||
31 | required under Section 12-201 of this Code;
| ||||||
32 | 2. Motor vehicles or equipment of the State of | ||||||
33 | Illinois, local authorities
and contractors; furthermore, | ||||||
34 | such lights shall not be lighted except while
such vehicles | ||||||
35 | are engaged in maintenance or construction operations | ||||||
36 | within
the limits of construction projects;
|
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | 3. Vehicles or equipment used by engineering or survey | ||||||
2 | crews;
furthermore, such lights shall not be lighted except | ||||||
3 | while such vehicles
are actually engaged in work on a | ||||||
4 | highway;
| ||||||
5 | 4. Vehicles of public utilities, municipalities, or | ||||||
6 | other
construction, maintenance or automotive service | ||||||
7 | vehicles except that such
lights shall be lighted only as a | ||||||
8 | means for indicating the presence of a
vehicular traffic | ||||||
9 | hazard requiring unusual care in approaching, overtaking
| ||||||
10 | or passing while such vehicles are engaged in maintenance, | ||||||
11 | service or
construction on a highway;
| ||||||
12 | 5. Oversized vehicle or load; however, such lights | ||||||
13 | shall only be lighted
when moving under permit issued by | ||||||
14 | the Department under Section 15-301
of this Code;
| ||||||
15 | 6. The front and rear of motorized equipment owned and | ||||||
16 | operated by the
State of Illinois or any political | ||||||
17 | subdivision thereof, which is designed
and used for removal | ||||||
18 | of snow and ice from highways;
| ||||||
19 | 7. Fleet safety vehicles registered in another state, | ||||||
20 | furthermore, such
lights shall not be lighted except as | ||||||
21 | provided for in Section 12-212 of
this Code;
| ||||||
22 | 8. Such other vehicles as may be authorized by local | ||||||
23 | authorities;
| ||||||
24 | 9. Law enforcement vehicles of State or local | ||||||
25 | authorities when used in
combination with red oscillating, | ||||||
26 | rotating or flashing lights;
| ||||||
27 | 9.5. Propane delivery trucks;
| ||||||
28 | 10. Vehicles used for collecting or delivering mail for | ||||||
29 | the
United States Postal Service provided that such lights | ||||||
30 | shall not be lighted
except when such vehicles are actually | ||||||
31 | being used for such purposes;
| ||||||
32 | 11. Any vehicle displaying a slow-moving vehicle | ||||||
33 | emblem as
provided in Section 12-205.1;
| ||||||
34 | 12. All trucks equipped with self-compactors or | ||||||
35 | roll-off hoists and
roll-on containers for garbage or | ||||||
36 | refuse hauling. Such lights shall not be
lighted except |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | when such vehicles are actually being used for such | ||||||
2 | purposes;
| ||||||
3 | 13. Vehicles used by a security company, alarm | ||||||
4 | responder, or control
agency;
| ||||||
5 | 14. Security vehicles of the Department of Human | ||||||
6 | Services; however, the
lights shall not be lighted except | ||||||
7 | when being used for security related
purposes under the | ||||||
8 | direction of the superintendent of the facility where the
| ||||||
9 | vehicle is located; and
| ||||||
10 | 15. Vehicles of union representatives, except that the | ||||||
11 | lights shall be
lighted only while the vehicle is within | ||||||
12 | the limits of a construction
project.
| ||||||
13 | (c) The use of blue oscillating, rotating or flashing | ||||||
14 | lights, whether
lighted or unlighted, is prohibited except on:
| ||||||
15 | 1. Rescue squad vehicles not owned by a fire department | ||||||
16 | and
vehicles owned or fully operated by a:
| ||||||
17 | voluntary firefighter;
| ||||||
18 | paid firefighter;
| ||||||
19 | part-paid firefighter;
| ||||||
20 | call firefighter;
| ||||||
21 | member of the board of trustees of a fire | ||||||
22 | protection district;
| ||||||
23 | paid or unpaid member of a rescue squad;
| ||||||
24 | paid or unpaid member of a voluntary ambulance | ||||||
25 | unit; or
| ||||||
26 | paid or unpaid members of a local or county | ||||||
27 | emergency management
services agency as defined in the | ||||||
28 | Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act,
designated | ||||||
29 | or authorized by local authorities, in writing, and | ||||||
30 | carrying that
designation or authorization in the | ||||||
31 | vehicle.
| ||||||
32 | However, such lights are not to be lighted except when | ||||||
33 | responding to a
bona fide emergency.
| ||||||
34 | 2. Police department vehicles in cities having a | ||||||
35 | population of 500,000
or more inhabitants.
| ||||||
36 | 3. Law enforcement vehicles of State or local |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | authorities when used in
combination with red oscillating, | ||||||
2 | rotating or flashing lights.
| ||||||
3 | 4. Vehicles of local fire departments and State or | ||||||
4 | federal
firefighting vehicles when used in combination | ||||||
5 | with red oscillating,
rotating or flashing lights.
| ||||||
6 | 5. Vehicles which are designed and used exclusively as | ||||||
7 | ambulances or
rescue vehicles when used in combination with | ||||||
8 | red oscillating, rotating or
flashing lights; furthermore, | ||||||
9 | such lights shall not be lighted except when
responding to | ||||||
10 | an emergency call.
| ||||||
11 | 6. Vehicles that are equipped and used exclusively as | ||||||
12 | organ transport
vehicles when used in combination with red | ||||||
13 | oscillating, rotating, or flashing
lights; furthermore, | ||||||
14 | these lights shall only be lighted when the transportation
| ||||||
15 | is declared an emergency by a member of the transplant team | ||||||
16 | or a
representative of the organ procurement organization.
| ||||||
17 | 7. Vehicles of the Illinois Emergency Management | ||||||
18 | Agency , vehicles of the Illinois Department of Public | ||||||
19 | Health, and vehicles of
the
Department of Nuclear Safety, | ||||||
20 | when used in combination with red oscillating,
rotating, or | ||||||
21 | flashing lights.
| ||||||
22 | 8. Vehicles operated by a local or county emergency | ||||||
23 | management
services agency as defined in the Illinois | ||||||
24 | Emergency Management Agency
Act, when used in combination | ||||||
25 | with red oscillating, rotating, or
flashing lights.
| ||||||
26 | (c-1) In addition to the blue oscillating, rotating, or | ||||||
27 | flashing
lights permitted under subsection (c), and | ||||||
28 | notwithstanding subsection
(a), a vehicle operated by a | ||||||
29 | voluntary firefighter, a voluntary member
of a rescue squad, or | ||||||
30 | a member of a voluntary ambulance unit may be
equipped with | ||||||
31 | flashing white headlights and blue grill lights, which may
be | ||||||
32 | used only in responding to an emergency call.
| ||||||
33 | (c-2) In addition to the blue oscillating, rotating, or | ||||||
34 | flashing
lights permitted under subsection (c), and | ||||||
35 | notwithstanding subsection (a),
a vehicle operated by a paid or | ||||||
36 | unpaid member of a local or county
emergency management |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | services agency as defined in the Illinois Emergency
Management | ||||||
2 | Agency Act, may be equipped with white oscillating, rotating,
| ||||||
3 | or flashing lights to be used in combination with blue | ||||||
4 | oscillating, rotating,
or flashing lights, if authorization by | ||||||
5 | local authorities is in
writing and carried in the vehicle.
| ||||||
6 | (d) The use of a combination of amber and white | ||||||
7 | oscillating, rotating or
flashing lights, whether lighted or | ||||||
8 | unlighted, is prohibited except motor
vehicles or equipment of | ||||||
9 | the State of Illinois, local authorities, contractors,
and | ||||||
10 | union representatives may be so equipped; furthermore, such | ||||||
11 | lights shall
not be lighted on vehicles of the State of | ||||||
12 | Illinois, local authorities, and
contractors except while such | ||||||
13 | vehicles are engaged in highway maintenance or
construction | ||||||
14 | operations within the limits of highway construction projects, | ||||||
15 | and
shall not be lighted on the vehicles of union | ||||||
16 | representatives except when those
vehicles are within the | ||||||
17 | limits of a construction project.
| ||||||
18 | (e) All oscillating, rotating or flashing lights referred | ||||||
19 | to in this Section
shall be of sufficient intensity, when | ||||||
20 | illuminated, to be visible at 500
feet in normal sunlight.
| ||||||
21 | (f) Nothing in this Section shall prohibit a manufacturer | ||||||
22 | of oscillating,
rotating or flashing lights or his | ||||||
23 | representative from temporarily mounting
such lights on a | ||||||
24 | vehicle for demonstration purposes only.
| ||||||
25 | (g) Any person violating the provisions of subsections (a), | ||||||
26 | (b), (c) or (d)
of this Section who without lawful authority | ||||||
27 | stops or detains or attempts
to stop or detain another person | ||||||
28 | shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony.
| ||||||
29 | (h) Except as provided in subsection (g) above, any person | ||||||
30 | violating the
provisions of subsections (a) or (c) of this | ||||||
31 | Section shall be guilty of a
Class A misdemeanor.
| ||||||
32 | (Source: P.A. 92-138, eff. 7-24-01; 92-407, eff.
8-17-01; | ||||||
33 | 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; 92-782, eff. 8-6-02; 92-820, eff. | ||||||
34 | 8-21-02;
92-872, eff. 6-1-03; 93-181, eff. 1-1-04.)
| ||||||
35 | Section 45. The Communicable Disease Report Act is amended |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | by changing Section 1 as follows:
| ||||||
2 | (745 ILCS 45/1) (from Ch. 126, par. 21)
| ||||||
3 | Sec. 1. Whenever any statute of this State or any ordinance | ||||||
4 | or
resolution of a municipal corporation or political | ||||||
5 | subdivision enacted
pursuant to statute or any rule of an | ||||||
6 | administrative agency adopted
pursuant to statute requires | ||||||
7 | medical practitioners or other persons to
report cases of | ||||||
8 | injury, medical condition or procedure, communicable
disease, | ||||||
9 | venereal disease, or sexually
transmitted disease to
any | ||||||
10 | governmental agency or officer, such reports shall be | ||||||
11 | confidential,
and any medical practitioner or other person | ||||||
12 | making such report in good
faith shall be immune from suit for | ||||||
13 | slander or libel based upon any
statements contained in such | ||||||
14 | report.
| ||||||
15 | The identity of any individual who makes a report or who is | ||||||
16 | identified in a
report
of an injury, medical condition or | ||||||
17 | procedure, communicable
disease, venereal disease, sexually | ||||||
18 | transmitted disease, or food-borne
illness or an investigation
| ||||||
19 | conducted pursuant to a report of an injury, medical condition | ||||||
20 | or
procedure, communicable disease, venereal disease, sexually
| ||||||
21 | transmitted disease, or food-borne illness shall be | ||||||
22 | confidential and the
identity of any person making a report or | ||||||
23 | named therein shall not be
disclosed publicly or in any action | ||||||
24 | of any kind in any court or before any
tribunal, board or | ||||||
25 | agency; provided that records and communications concerning
a | ||||||
26 | venereal disease or sexually transmitted disease in any minor | ||||||
27 | under 11
years of age shall be disclosed in accordance with the | ||||||
28 | provisions
of the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act, | ||||||
29 | approved June 26, 1975,
as now or hereafter amended.
| ||||||
30 | The confidentiality provisions of this Act do not apply to | ||||||
31 | the results
of tests for diseases conducted pursuant to
| ||||||
32 | subsections (g) and (g-5) of Section 5-5-3 and
subsection (a) | ||||||
33 | of Section
3-15-2 of the Unified Code of Corrections. | ||||||
34 | Nothing in this Act prohibits the sharing of information as | ||||||
35 | authorized in Section 2.1 of the Department of Public Health |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | Act.
| ||||||
2 | (Source: P.A. 89-187, eff. 7-19-95; 89-381, eff. 8-18-95; | ||||||
3 | 89-477, eff.
6-18-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
| ||||||
4 | Section 50. The Workers' Compensation Act is amended by | ||||||
5 | changing Section 11 as follows:
| ||||||
6 | (820 ILCS 305/11) (from Ch. 48, par. 138.11)
| ||||||
7 | Sec. 11. The compensation herein provided, together with | ||||||
8 | the
provisions of this Act, shall be the measure of the | ||||||
9 | responsibility of
any employer engaged in any of the | ||||||
10 | enterprises or businesses enumerated
in Section 3 of this Act, | ||||||
11 | or of any employer who is not engaged in any
such enterprises | ||||||
12 | or businesses, but who has elected to provide and pay
| ||||||
13 | compensation for accidental injuries sustained by any employee | ||||||
14 | arising
out of and in the course of the employment according to | ||||||
15 | the provisions
of this Act, and whose election to continue | ||||||
16 | under this Act, has not been
nullified by any action of his | ||||||
17 | employees as provided for in this Act.
| ||||||
18 | Accidental injuries incurred while participating in | ||||||
19 | voluntary recreational
programs including but not limited to | ||||||
20 | athletic events, parties and picnics
do not arise out of and in | ||||||
21 | the course of the employment even though the
employer pays some | ||||||
22 | or all of the cost thereof. This exclusion shall not apply
in | ||||||
23 | the event that the injured employee was ordered or assigned by | ||||||
24 | his employer
to participate in the program.
| ||||||
25 | Accidental injuries incurred while participating as a | ||||||
26 | patient in a drug
or alcohol rehabilitation program do not | ||||||
27 | arise out of and in the course
of employment even though the | ||||||
28 | employer pays some or all of the costs thereof. | ||||||
29 | Any injury to or disease or death of an employee arising | ||||||
30 | from the administration of a vaccine, including without | ||||||
31 | limitation smallpox vaccine, to prepare for, or as a response | ||||||
32 | to, a threatened or potential bioterrorist incident to the | ||||||
33 | employee as part of a voluntary inoculation program in | ||||||
34 | connection with the person's employment or in connection with |
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1 | any governmental program or recommendation for the inoculation | ||||||
2 | of workers in the employee's occupation, geographical area, or | ||||||
3 | other category that includes the employee is deemed to arise | ||||||
4 | out of and in the course of the employment for all purposes | ||||||
5 | under this Act. This paragraph added by this amendatory Act of | ||||||
6 | the 93rd General Assembly is declarative of existing law and is | ||||||
7 | not a new enactment.
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8 | (Source: P.A. 81-1482.)
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9 | Section 55. The Workers' Occupational Diseases Act is | ||||||
10 | amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
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11 | (820 ILCS 310/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 172.36)
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12 | Sec. 1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the | ||||||
13 | "Workers'
Occupational Diseases Act".
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14 | (a) The term "employer" as used in this Act shall be | ||||||
15 | construed to
be:
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16 | 1. The State and each county, city, town, township, | ||||||
17 | incorporated
village, school district, body politic, or | ||||||
18 | municipal corporation
therein.
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19 | 2. Every person, firm, public or private corporation, | ||||||
20 | including
hospitals, public service, eleemosynary, religious | ||||||
21 | or charitable
corporations or associations, who has any person | ||||||
22 | in service or under any
contract for hire, express or implied, | ||||||
23 | oral or written.
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24 | 3. Where an employer operating under and subject to the | ||||||
25 | provisions
of this Act loans an employee to another such | ||||||
26 | employer and such loaned
employee sustains a compensable | ||||||
27 | occupational disease in the employment
of such borrowing | ||||||
28 | employer and where such borrowing employer does not
provide or | ||||||
29 | pay the benefits or payments due such employee, such loaning
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30 | employer shall be liable to provide or pay all benefits or | ||||||
31 | payments due
such employee under this Act and as to such | ||||||
32 | employee the liability of
such loaning and borrowing employers | ||||||
33 | shall be joint and several,
provided that such loaning employer | ||||||
34 | shall in the absence of agreement to
the contrary be entitled |
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1 | to receive from such borrowing employer full
reimbursement for | ||||||
2 | all sums paid or incurred pursuant to this paragraph
together | ||||||
3 | with reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses in any hearings
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4 | before the Industrial Commission or in any action to secure | ||||||
5 | such
reimbursement. Where any benefit is provided or paid by | ||||||
6 | such loaning
employer, the employee shall have the duty of | ||||||
7 | rendering reasonable
co-operation in any hearings, trials or | ||||||
8 | proceedings in the case,
including such proceedings for | ||||||
9 | reimbursement.
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10 | Where an employee files an Application for Adjustment of | ||||||
11 | Claim with
the Industrial Commission alleging that his or her | ||||||
12 | claim is covered by
the provisions of the preceding paragraph, | ||||||
13 | and joining both the alleged
loaning and borrowing employers, | ||||||
14 | they and each of them, upon written
demand by the employee and | ||||||
15 | within 7 days after receipt of such demand,
shall have the duty | ||||||
16 | of filing with the Industrial Commission a written
admission or | ||||||
17 | denial of the allegation that the claim is covered by the
| ||||||
18 | provisions of the preceding paragraph and in default of such | ||||||
19 | filing or
if any such denial be ultimately determined not to | ||||||
20 | have been bona fide
then the provisions of Paragraph K of | ||||||
21 | Section 19 of this Act shall
apply.
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22 | An employer whose business or enterprise or a substantial | ||||||
23 | part
thereof consists of hiring, procuring or furnishing | ||||||
24 | employees to or for
other employers operating under and subject | ||||||
25 | to the provisions of this
Act for the performance of the work | ||||||
26 | of such other employers and who pays
such employees their | ||||||
27 | salary or wage notwithstanding that they are doing
the work of | ||||||
28 | such other employers shall be deemed a loaning employer
within | ||||||
29 | the meaning and provisions of this Section.
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30 | (b) The term "employee" as used in this Act, shall be | ||||||
31 | construed to
mean:
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32 | 1. Every person in the service of the State, county, city, | ||||||
33 | town,
township, incorporated village or school district, body | ||||||
34 | politic or
municipal corporation therein, whether by election, | ||||||
35 | appointment or
contract of hire, express or implied, oral or | ||||||
36 | written, including any
official of the State, or of any county, |
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1 | city, town, township,
incorporated village, school district, | ||||||
2 | body politic or municipal
corporation therein and except any | ||||||
3 | duly appointed member of the fire
department in any city whose | ||||||
4 | population exceeds 500,000 according to the
last Federal or | ||||||
5 | State census, and except any member of a fire insurance
patrol | ||||||
6 | maintained by a board of underwriters in this State. One | ||||||
7 | employed
by a contractor who has contracted with the State, or | ||||||
8 | a county, city,
town, township, incorporated village, school | ||||||
9 | district, body politic or
municipal corporation therein, | ||||||
10 | through its representatives, shall not be
considered as an | ||||||
11 | employee of the State, county, city, town, township,
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12 | incorporated village, school district, body politic or | ||||||
13 | municipal
corporation which made the contract.
| ||||||
14 | 2. Every person in the service of another under any | ||||||
15 | contract of
hire, express or implied, oral or written, who | ||||||
16 | contracts an occupational
disease while working in the State of | ||||||
17 | Illinois, or who contracts an
occupational disease while | ||||||
18 | working outside of the State of Illinois but
where the contract | ||||||
19 | of hire is made within the State of Illinois, and any
person | ||||||
20 | whose employment is principally localized within the State of
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21 | Illinois, regardless of the place where the disease was | ||||||
22 | contracted or
place where the contract of hire was made, | ||||||
23 | including aliens, and minors
who, for the purpose of this Act, | ||||||
24 | except Section 3 hereof, shall be
considered the same and have | ||||||
25 | the same power to contract, receive
payments and give | ||||||
26 | quittances therefor, as adult employees. An employee
or his or | ||||||
27 | her dependents under this Act who shall have a cause of action
| ||||||
28 | by reason of an occupational disease, disablement or death | ||||||
29 | arising out
of and in the course of his or her employment may | ||||||
30 | elect or pursue
his or her remedy in the State where the | ||||||
31 | disease was contracted, or in the
State where the contract of | ||||||
32 | hire is made, or in the State where the
employment is | ||||||
33 | principally localized.
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34 | (c) "Commission" means the Industrial Commission created | ||||||
35 | by the
Workers' Compensation Act, approved July 9, 1951, as | ||||||
36 | amended.
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1 | (d) In this Act the term "Occupational Disease" means a | ||||||
2 | disease
arising out of and in the course of the employment or | ||||||
3 | which has become
aggravated and rendered disabling as a result | ||||||
4 | of the exposure of the
employment. Such aggravation shall arise | ||||||
5 | out of a risk peculiar to or
increased by the employment and | ||||||
6 | not common to the general public.
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7 | A disease shall be deemed to arise out of the employment if | ||||||
8 | there is
apparent to the rational mind, upon consideration of | ||||||
9 | all the
circumstances, a causal connection between the | ||||||
10 | conditions under which
the work is performed and the | ||||||
11 | occupational disease. The disease need not
to have been | ||||||
12 | foreseen or expected but after its contraction it must
appear | ||||||
13 | to have had its origin or aggravation in a risk connected with
| ||||||
14 | the employment and to have flowed from that source as a | ||||||
15 | rational
consequence.
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16 | An employee shall be conclusively deemed to have been | ||||||
17 | exposed to the
hazards of an occupational disease when, for any | ||||||
18 | length of time however
short, he or she is employed in an | ||||||
19 | occupation or process in which the
hazard of the disease | ||||||
20 | exists; provided however, that in a claim of
exposure to atomic | ||||||
21 | radiation, the fact of such exposure must be verified
by the | ||||||
22 | records of the central registry of radiation exposure | ||||||
23 | maintained
by the Department of Public Health or by some other | ||||||
24 | recognized
governmental agency maintaining records of such | ||||||
25 | exposures whenever and
to the extent that the records are on | ||||||
26 | file with the Department of Public
Health or the agency. | ||||||
27 | Any injury to or disease or death of an employee arising | ||||||
28 | from the administration of a vaccine, including without | ||||||
29 | limitation smallpox vaccine, to prepare for, or as a response | ||||||
30 | to, a threatened or potential bioterrorist incident to the | ||||||
31 | employee as part of a voluntary inoculation program in | ||||||
32 | connection with the person's employment or in connection with | ||||||
33 | any governmental program or recommendation for the inoculation | ||||||
34 | of workers in the employee's occupation, geographical area, or | ||||||
35 | other category that includes the employee is deemed to arise | ||||||
36 | out of and in the course of the employment for all purposes |
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1 | under this Act. This paragraph added by this amendatory Act of | ||||||
2 | the 93rd General Assembly is declarative of existing law and is | ||||||
3 | not a new enactment.
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4 | The employer liable for the compensation in this Act | ||||||
5 | provided shall
be the employer in whose employment the employee | ||||||
6 | was last exposed to the
hazard of the occupational disease | ||||||
7 | claimed upon regardless of the length
of time of such last | ||||||
8 | exposure, except, in cases of silicosis or
asbestosis, the only | ||||||
9 | employer liable shall be the last employer in whose
employment | ||||||
10 | the employee was last exposed during a period of 60 days or
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11 | more after the effective date of this Act, to the hazard of | ||||||
12 | such
occupational disease, and, in such cases, an exposure | ||||||
13 | during a period of
less than 60 days, after the effective date | ||||||
14 | of this Act, shall not be
deemed a last exposure. If a miner | ||||||
15 | who is suffering or suffered from
pneumoconiosis was employed | ||||||
16 | for 10 years or more in one or more coal
mines there shall, | ||||||
17 | effective July 1, 1973 be a rebuttable presumption
that his or | ||||||
18 | her pneumoconiosis arose out of such employment.
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19 | If a deceased miner was employed for 10 years or more in | ||||||
20 | one or more
coal mines and died from a respirable disease there | ||||||
21 | shall, effective
July 1, 1973, be a rebuttable presumption that | ||||||
22 | his or her death was due
to pneumoconiosis.
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23 | The insurance carrier liable shall be the carrier whose | ||||||
24 | policy was in
effect covering the employer liable on the last | ||||||
25 | day of the exposure
rendering such employer liable in | ||||||
26 | accordance with the provisions of this
Act.
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27 | (e) "Disablement" means an impairment or partial | ||||||
28 | impairment,
temporary or permanent, in the function of the body | ||||||
29 | or any of the
members of the body, or the event of becoming | ||||||
30 | disabled from earning full
wages at the work in which the | ||||||
31 | employee was engaged when last exposed to
the hazards of the | ||||||
32 | occupational disease by the employer from whom he or
she claims | ||||||
33 | compensation, or equal wages in other suitable employment;
and | ||||||
34 | "disability" means the state of being so incapacitated.
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35 | (f) No compensation shall be payable for or on account of | ||||||
36 | any
occupational disease unless disablement, as herein |
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1 | defined, occurs
within two years after the last day of the last | ||||||
2 | exposure to the hazards
of the disease, except in cases of | ||||||
3 | occupational disease caused by
berylliosis or by the inhalation | ||||||
4 | of silica dust or asbestos dust and, in
such cases, within 3 | ||||||
5 | years after the last day of the last exposure to
the hazards of | ||||||
6 | such disease and except in the case of occupational
disease | ||||||
7 | caused by exposure to radiological materials or equipment, and
| ||||||
8 | in such case, within 25 years after the last day of last | ||||||
9 | exposure to the
hazards of such disease.
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10 | (Source: P.A. 81-992.)
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11 | Section 60. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is | ||||||
12 | amended by changing Section 5-45 as follows:
| ||||||
13 | (5 ILCS 100/5-45) (from Ch. 127, par. 1005-45)
| ||||||
14 | Sec. 5-45. Emergency rulemaking.
| ||||||
15 | (a) "Emergency" means the existence of any situation that | ||||||
16 | any agency
finds reasonably constitutes a threat to the public | ||||||
17 | interest, safety, or
welfare.
| ||||||
18 | (b) If any agency finds that an
emergency exists that | ||||||
19 | requires adoption of a rule upon fewer days than
is required by | ||||||
20 | Section 5-40 and states in writing its reasons for that
| ||||||
21 | finding, the agency may adopt an emergency rule without prior | ||||||
22 | notice or
hearing upon filing a notice of emergency rulemaking | ||||||
23 | with the Secretary of
State under Section 5-70. The notice | ||||||
24 | shall include the text of the
emergency rule and shall be | ||||||
25 | published in the Illinois Register. Consent
orders or other | ||||||
26 | court orders adopting settlements negotiated by an agency
may | ||||||
27 | be adopted under this Section. Subject to applicable | ||||||
28 | constitutional or
statutory provisions, an emergency rule | ||||||
29 | becomes effective immediately upon
filing under Section 5-65 or | ||||||
30 | at a stated date less than 10 days
thereafter. The agency's | ||||||
31 | finding and a statement of the specific reasons
for the finding | ||||||
32 | shall be filed with the rule. The agency shall take
reasonable | ||||||
33 | and appropriate measures to make emergency rules known to the
| ||||||
34 | persons who may be affected by them.
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1 | (c) An emergency rule may be effective for a period of not | ||||||
2 | longer than
150 days, but the agency's authority to adopt an | ||||||
3 | identical rule under Section
5-40 is not precluded. No | ||||||
4 | emergency rule may be adopted more
than once in any 24 month | ||||||
5 | period, except that this limitation on the number
of emergency | ||||||
6 | rules that may be adopted in a 24 month period does not apply
| ||||||
7 | to (i) emergency rules that make additions to and deletions | ||||||
8 | from the Drug
Manual under Section 5-5.16 of the Illinois | ||||||
9 | Public Aid Code or the
generic drug formulary under Section | ||||||
10 | 3.14 of the Illinois Food, Drug
and Cosmetic Act ,
or (ii) | ||||||
11 | emergency rules adopted by the Pollution Control
Board before | ||||||
12 | July 1, 1997 to implement portions of the Livestock Management
| ||||||
13 | Facilities Act ; or (iii) emergency rules adopted by the | ||||||
14 | Illinois Department of Public Health under subsections (a) | ||||||
15 | through (i) of Section 2 of the Department of Public Health Act | ||||||
16 | when necessary to protect the public's health . Two or more | ||||||
17 | emergency rules having substantially the same
purpose and | ||||||
18 | effect shall be deemed to be a single rule for purposes of this
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19 | Section.
| ||||||
20 | (d) In order to provide for the expeditious and timely | ||||||
21 | implementation
of the State's fiscal year 1999 budget, | ||||||
22 | emergency rules to implement any
provision of Public Act 90-587 | ||||||
23 | or 90-588
or any other budget initiative for fiscal year 1999 | ||||||
24 | may be adopted in
accordance with this Section by the agency | ||||||
25 | charged with administering that
provision or initiative, | ||||||
26 | except that the 24-month limitation on the adoption
of | ||||||
27 | emergency rules and the provisions of Sections 5-115 and 5-125 | ||||||
28 | do not apply
to rules adopted under this subsection (d). The | ||||||
29 | adoption of emergency rules
authorized by this subsection (d) | ||||||
30 | shall be deemed to be necessary for the
public interest, | ||||||
31 | safety, and welfare.
| ||||||
32 | (e) In order to provide for the expeditious and timely | ||||||
33 | implementation
of the State's fiscal year 2000 budget, | ||||||
34 | emergency rules to implement any
provision of this amendatory | ||||||
35 | Act of the 91st General Assembly
or any other budget initiative | ||||||
36 | for fiscal year 2000 may be adopted in
accordance with this |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | Section by the agency charged with administering that
provision | ||||||
2 | or initiative, except that the 24-month limitation on the | ||||||
3 | adoption
of emergency rules and the provisions of Sections | ||||||
4 | 5-115 and 5-125 do not apply
to rules adopted under this | ||||||
5 | subsection (e). The adoption of emergency rules
authorized by | ||||||
6 | this subsection (e) shall be deemed to be necessary for the
| ||||||
7 | public interest, safety, and welfare.
| ||||||
8 | (f) In order to provide for the expeditious and timely | ||||||
9 | implementation
of the State's fiscal year 2001 budget, | ||||||
10 | emergency rules to implement any
provision of this amendatory | ||||||
11 | Act of the 91st General Assembly
or any other budget initiative | ||||||
12 | for fiscal year 2001 may be adopted in
accordance with this | ||||||
13 | Section by the agency charged with administering that
provision | ||||||
14 | or initiative, except that the 24-month limitation on the | ||||||
15 | adoption
of emergency rules and the provisions of Sections | ||||||
16 | 5-115 and 5-125 do not apply
to rules adopted under this | ||||||
17 | subsection (f). The adoption of emergency rules
authorized by | ||||||
18 | this subsection (f) shall be deemed to be necessary for the
| ||||||
19 | public interest, safety, and welfare.
| ||||||
20 | (g) In order to provide for the expeditious and timely | ||||||
21 | implementation
of the State's fiscal year 2002 budget, | ||||||
22 | emergency rules to implement any
provision of this amendatory | ||||||
23 | Act of the 92nd General Assembly
or any other budget initiative | ||||||
24 | for fiscal year 2002 may be adopted in
accordance with this | ||||||
25 | Section by the agency charged with administering that
provision | ||||||
26 | or initiative, except that the 24-month limitation on the | ||||||
27 | adoption
of emergency rules and the provisions of Sections | ||||||
28 | 5-115 and 5-125 do not apply
to rules adopted under this | ||||||
29 | subsection (g). The adoption of emergency rules
authorized by | ||||||
30 | this subsection (g) shall be deemed to be necessary for the
| ||||||
31 | public interest, safety, and welfare.
| ||||||
32 | (h) In order to provide for the expeditious and timely | ||||||
33 | implementation
of the State's fiscal year 2003 budget, | ||||||
34 | emergency rules to implement any
provision of this amendatory | ||||||
35 | Act of the 92nd General Assembly
or any other budget initiative | ||||||
36 | for fiscal year 2003 may be adopted in
accordance with this |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | Section by the agency charged with administering that
provision | ||||||
2 | or initiative, except that the 24-month limitation on the | ||||||
3 | adoption
of emergency rules and the provisions of Sections | ||||||
4 | 5-115 and 5-125 do not apply
to rules adopted under this | ||||||
5 | subsection (h). The adoption of emergency rules
authorized by | ||||||
6 | this subsection (h) shall be deemed to be necessary for the
| ||||||
7 | public interest, safety, and welfare.
| ||||||
8 | (i) In order to provide for the expeditious and timely | ||||||
9 | implementation
of the State's fiscal year 2004 budget, | ||||||
10 | emergency rules to implement any
provision of this amendatory | ||||||
11 | Act of the 93rd General Assembly
or any other budget initiative | ||||||
12 | for fiscal year 2004 may be adopted in
accordance with this | ||||||
13 | Section by the agency charged with administering that
provision | ||||||
14 | or initiative, except that the 24-month limitation on the | ||||||
15 | adoption
of emergency rules and the provisions of Sections | ||||||
16 | 5-115 and 5-125 do not apply
to rules adopted under this | ||||||
17 | subsection (i). The adoption of emergency rules
authorized by | ||||||
18 | this subsection (i) shall be deemed to be necessary for the
| ||||||
19 | public interest, safety, and welfare.
| ||||||
20 | (Source: P.A. 92-10, eff. 6-11-01; 92-597, eff. 6-28-02; 93-20, | ||||||
21 | eff.
6-20-03.)
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22 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
23 | becoming law.
|