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| | 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB3158 Introduced 2/19/2016, by Sen. Wm. Sam McCann SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Home Health and Hospice Drug Dispensation and Administration Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health may by rule provide for the possession and transportation of greater quantities of specified drugs by a home health agency, hospice, or authorized nursing employee.
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| | SB3158 | | LRB099 19959 MJP 44358 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning health.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Home Health and Hospice Drug Dispensation |
| 5 | | and Administration Act is amended by changing Section 20 as |
| 6 | | follows:
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| 7 | | (410 ILCS 642/20)
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| 8 | | Sec. 20. Possession of specified drugs. |
| 9 | | (a) A home health agency, hospice, or authorized nursing |
| 10 | | employee of an agency or hospice, in compliance with this |
| 11 | | Section, may possess or transport the following specified drugs |
| 12 | | in a sealed portable container for the purpose of |
| 13 | | administration to the agency's or hospice's patients pursuant |
| 14 | | to the patient's treating health care professional's orders:
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| 15 | | (1) Sterile saline in a sealed portable container of a |
| 16 | | size determined by the dispensing pharmacist. |
| 17 | | (2) Sterile water. |
| 18 | | (3) Not more than 5 dosage units of any of the |
| 19 | | following items in an individually sealed, unused portable |
| 20 | | container:
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| 21 | | (A) Heparin sodium lock flush in a concentration of |
| 22 | | 10 units per milliliter or 100 units per milliliter. |
| 23 | | (B) Epinephrine HCI solution in a concentration of |