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1    AN ACT concerning health facilities.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act 
5is amended  by changing Section 3.225 as follows:
 



6    (210 ILCS 50/3.225)



7    Sec. 3.225. Trauma Center Fund. 

8    (a) The Department shall distribute 97.5% of 50% of
the 
9moneys deposited into the Trauma Center Fund, a special
fund in 
10the State Treasury, to Illinois hospitals that are
designated 
11as trauma centers.  The payments to those
hospitals shall be in 
12addition to any other payments paid
and shall be in an amount 
13calculated under paragraph (b) of
this Section.

14    (b) Trauma payment calculation.


15        (1) The Department shall implement an
accounting 
16    system to ensure that the moneys in the fund are

17    distributed.


18        (2) The moneys in the fund shall be allocated

19    proportionately to each EMS region so that the EMS
region 
20    receives the moneys collected from within its region
for 
21    violations of laws or ordinances regulating the movement
of 
22    traffic. Under no circumstance shall money collected 
23    within one EMS region be redirected to another EMS region. 


 
 
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1        (3) The formula for distribution to
individual 
2    hospitals shall be based on factors identified in rules

3    adopted by the Department pursuant to this Act.  No moneys

4    may be distributed to a trauma center located outside of 
5    the
State.

6        (4) If money collected from an EMS region cannot be 
7    distributed to any trauma center in that EMS region because 
8    the trauma center is located outside of the State, then the 
9    Department shall distribute the money to hospitals in the 
10    EMS region for the provision of emergency services. 
11    (c) The Department may retain 2.5% of 50% of the
moneys in 
12the Trauma Center Fund to defray the cost of
administering the 
13distributions.

14(Source: P.A. 89-177, eff. 7-19-95.)

 
 
15    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
16becoming law.