Sen. William Delgado
Filed: 5/7/2007
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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; purpose; | ||||||
9 | implementation plan. | ||||||
10 | (a) In accordance with the recommendations of the 2007 | ||||||
11 | State Health Improvement Plan, it is the policy of the State | ||||||
12 | that, to the extent possible and consistent with privacy and | ||||||
13 | other laws, State public health data and health-related | ||||||
14 | administrative data are to be used to understand and report on | ||||||
15 | the scope of health problems, plan prevention programs, and | ||||||
16 | evaluate program effectiveness at the State and community |
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1 | level. It is a priority to use data to address racial, ethnic, | ||||||
2 | and other health disparities. This system is intended to | ||||||
3 | support State and community level public health planning, and | ||||||
4 | is not intended to supplant or replace data-use agreements | ||||||
5 | between State agencies and academic researchers for more | ||||||
6 | specific research needs. | ||||||
7 | (b) Within 30 days after the effective date of this | ||||||
8 | amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, a Health Data Task | ||||||
9 | Force shall be convened to create a system for public access to | ||||||
10 | integrated health data. The Task Force shall consist of the | ||||||
11 | following: the Director of Public Health or his or her | ||||||
12 | designee; the Director of Healthcare and Family Services or his | ||||||
13 | or her designee; the Secretary of Human Services or his or her | ||||||
14 | designee; the Director of the Department on Aging or his or her | ||||||
15 | designee; the Director of Children and Family Services or his | ||||||
16 | or her designee; the State Superintendent of Education or his | ||||||
17 | or her designee; and other State officials as deemed | ||||||
18 | appropriate by the Governor. | ||||||
19 | The Task Force shall be advised by a public advisory group | ||||||
20 | consisting of community health data users, minority health | ||||||
21 | advocates, local public health departments, and private data | ||||||
22 | suppliers such as hospitals and other health care providers. | ||||||
23 | Each member of the Task Force shall appoint 3 members of the | ||||||
24 | public advisory group. The public advisory group shall assist | ||||||
25 | the Task Force in setting goals, articulating user needs, and | ||||||
26 | setting priorities for action. |
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1 | The Department of Public Health is primarily responsible | ||||||
2 | for providing staff and administrative support to the Task | ||||||
3 | Force. The other State agencies represented on the Task Force | ||||||
4 | shall work cooperatively with the Department of Public Health | ||||||
5 | to provide administrative support to the Task Force. The | ||||||
6 | Department of Public Health shall have ongoing responsibility | ||||||
7 | for monitoring the implementation of the plan and shall have | ||||||
8 | ongoing responsibility to identify new or emerging data or | ||||||
9 | technology needs. | ||||||
10 | The State agencies represented on the Task Force shall | ||||||
11 | review their health data, data collection, and dissemination | ||||||
12 | policies for opportunities to coordinate and integrate data and | ||||||
13 | make data available within and outside State government in | ||||||
14 | support of this State policy. To the extent possible, existing | ||||||
15 | data infrastructure shall be used to create this system of | ||||||
16 | public access to data. The Illinois Department of Health Care | ||||||
17 | and Family Services data warehouse and the Illinois Department | ||||||
18 | of Public Health IPLAN Data System may be the foundation of | ||||||
19 | this system. | ||||||
20 | (c) The Task Force shall produce a plan with a phased and | ||||||
21 | prioritized implementation timetable focusing on assuring | ||||||
22 | access to improving the quality of data necessary to understand | ||||||
23 | health disparities. The Task Force shall submit an initial | ||||||
24 | report to the General Assembly no later that July 1, 2008, and | ||||||
25 | shall make annual reports to the General Assembly on or before | ||||||
26 | July 1 of each year through 2011 of the progress toward |
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1 | implementing the plan.
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2 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
3 | becoming law.".
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