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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 Nursing Home Care Act is amended  by changing 
5Section 3-304.1 and by adding Section 3-518 as follows:
 
6    (210 ILCS 45/3-304.1)
7    Sec. 3-304.1. Public computer access to information. 
8    (a) The Department must make information regarding nursing 
9homes in the
State
available to the public in electronic form 
10on the World Wide Web, including all
of the
following 
11information:
12        (1) who regulates nursing homes;
13        (2) information in the possession of the Department 
14    that is listed in
Sections 3-210 and 3-304;
15        (3) deficiencies and plans of correction;
16        (4) enforcement remedies;
17        (5) penalty letters;
18        (6) designation of penalty monies;
19        (7) the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' 
20    Health Care
Financing Administration special projects or 
21    federally required inspections;
22        (8) advisory standards;
23        (9) deficiency-free surveys;
 
 
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1        (10) enforcement actions and enforcement summaries; 
2    and
3        (11) distressed facilities; and . 
4        (12) the report submitted under Section 3-518. 
5    (b) No fee or other charge may be imposed by the Department 
6as a condition
of accessing the information.
7    (c) The electronic public access provided through the World 
8Wide Web shall
be
in addition to any other electronic or print 
9distribution of the information.
10    (d) The information shall be made available as provided in 
11this Section in
the
shortest practicable time after it is 
12publicly available in any other form.
13(Source: P.A. 96-1372, eff. 7-29-10.)
 
14    (210 ILCS 45/3-518 new)
15    Sec. 3-518. Fines. Beginning January 15, 2014, and each 
16January 15 thereafter, the Department shall submit to the 
17General Assembly, the Department's Long-Term Care Facility 
18Advisory Board, and the State Ombudsman an accounting of all 
19federal and State fines received by the Department in the 
20preceding fiscal year by the fund in which they have been 
21deposited.  For each fund, the report shall show the source of 
22all moneys that are deposited into each fund and the purpose 
23and amount of all expenditures from each fund.
 

24    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
25becoming law.