Human Services Committee
Adopted in House Comm. on Mar 14, 2007
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 981
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 981 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Department of Public Health Powers and | ||||||
5 | Duties Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is | ||||||
6 | amended by adding Section 2310-367 as follows: | ||||||
7 | (20 ILCS 2310/2310-367 new) | ||||||
8 | Sec. 2310-367. Health Data Task Force. | ||||||
9 | (a) Subject to an appropriation or the availability of | ||||||
10 | other funds identified for this purpose, the Health Data Task | ||||||
11 | Force is created. In accordance with the recommendations of the | ||||||
12 | 2007 Illinois State Health Improvement Plan, the Health Data | ||||||
13 | Task Force shall develop a plan to create a linked health data | ||||||
14 | system that measures, analyzes, and reports on the health | ||||||
15 | status of Illinois residents, including those impacted by | ||||||
16 | health disparities. The plan shall include, but not be limited |
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1 | to all of the following: | ||||||
2 | (1) Approaches to assuring adequate data on race, | ||||||
3 | ethnicity, geographic location, gender, age, sexual | ||||||
4 | orientation, and other populations affected by health | ||||||
5 | disparities. | ||||||
6 | (2) Identification of and proposals for addressing | ||||||
7 | privacy and other legal issues. | ||||||
8 | (3) Identification of and approaches to solving | ||||||
9 | compatibility issues, including software, hardware, | ||||||
10 | platform, and other information systems issues. | ||||||
11 | (4) Identification of needs and approaches to | ||||||
12 | standardizing definitions of indicators across systems to | ||||||
13 | assure comparability. | ||||||
14 | (5) Approaches that assure the highest quality data | ||||||
15 | collection. | ||||||
16 | (6) Development of methods to increase the timeliness | ||||||
17 | and availability of health data. | ||||||
18 | (7) Integration of methods to increase the timeliness | ||||||
19 | and availability of health data. | ||||||
20 | (8) Methods for effective dissemination and use of the | ||||||
21 | health data to non-governmental organizations for program | ||||||
22 | development and policy planning. | ||||||
23 | (b) The Health Data Task Force shall be composed of the | ||||||
24 | following members: the Director of Public Health or his or her | ||||||
25 | designee; the Director of Children and Family Services or his | ||||||
26 | or her designee; the Director of Central Management Services or |
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1 | his or her designee; the Secretary of Human Services or his or | ||||||
2 | her designee; the State Superintendent of Education or his or | ||||||
3 | her designee; and a maximum of 20 public members appointed by | ||||||
4 | the Governor including, but not be limited to, representatives | ||||||
5 | of health care provider organizations, local health | ||||||
6 | departments, minority health organizations, and other users | ||||||
7 | and providers of public health data. | ||||||
8 | (c) The Task Force members shall serve without | ||||||
9 | compensation, but public members shall be reimbursed for their | ||||||
10 | reasonable travel expenses incurred in performing their duties | ||||||
11 | in connection with the Task Force. | ||||||
12 | (d) The Department of Public Health shall be the primary | ||||||
13 | agency in providing staff and administrative support to the | ||||||
14 | Task Force. The other State agencies represented on the Task | ||||||
15 | Force shall work cooperatively with the Department of Public | ||||||
16 | Health to provide administrative support to the Task Force. | ||||||
17 | (e) Within 90 days after the effective date of this | ||||||
18 | amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, the Department of | ||||||
19 | Public Health may contract with an independent vendor that has | ||||||
20 | expertise in public health data management, analysis, and | ||||||
21 | information systems. In addition, the Department may contract | ||||||
22 | with a vendor to provide the task force with logistical and | ||||||
23 | process support in the development of the plan to create a | ||||||
24 | linked health data system. | ||||||
25 | (f) The Task Force shall submit its plan to the Governor | ||||||
26 | and to the General Assembly no later than December 31, 2008.
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1 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
2 | becoming law.".
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