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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 SB2616
Introduced 1/20/2006, by Sen. Kirk W. Dillard - Peter J. Roskam SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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In a Section requiring a free medical clinic to post an explanation of its exemption from civil liability for that exemption to apply, as an alternative to this posting, provides that the clinic may provide an explanation of the exemption in writing to each person who is enrolled as a patient or member of that free medical clinic or, in the case of a minor patient or member, to the parent or guardian of that minor. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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SB2616 |
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LRB094 18609 AJO 53953 b |
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| AN ACT concerning civil law.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Good Samaritan Act is amended by changing |
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| Section 30 as follows:
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| (745 ILCS 49/30)
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| Sec. 30. Free medical clinic; exemption from civil |
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| liability for services
performed without compensation. |
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| (a) A person licensed under the Medical Practice Act of |
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| 1987, a person
licensed to practice the treatment of human |
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| ailments in any
other state or territory of the United States, |
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| or a health care professional,
including but not limited to an |
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| advanced practice nurse, retired physician, physician
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| assistant, nurse, pharmacist, physical therapist, podiatrist, |
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| or social worker
licensed in this State or any other state or |
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| territory of the United States,
who, in good faith, provides |
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| medical treatment,
diagnosis, or advice as a part of the |
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| services of an
established free medical clinic providing care, |
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| including but not limited to home visits, without charge to |
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| patients
which is limited to care that does not require the |
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| services of a
licensed hospital or ambulatory surgical |
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| treatment center and who receives
no fee or compensation from |
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| that source shall not be liable for civil
damages as a result |
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| of his or her acts or omissions in
providing that medical |
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| treatment, except for willful or wanton misconduct.
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| (b) For purposes of this Section, a "free medical clinic" |
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| is an
organized community based program providing medical care |
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| without
charge to individuals, at which the
care provided does |
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| not include an overnight stay in a health-care facility.
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| (c) The provisions of subsection (a) of this Section do not |
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| apply to a
particular case unless the free medical
clinic has |
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| posted in a conspicuous place on its premises an explanation of |