95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

 

State of Illinois

 

2007 and 2008   

HB6303

 

Introduced , by Rep. Raymond Poe

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

 

In addition to any other amounts appropriated for these purposes, appropriates a total of $29,800,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for: (1) staffing at the Center for Rural Health; (2) the expansion of medical practitioner grant programs; (3) the Rural Medical Education Initiative at the University of  Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford; (4) the Rural Health Initiative at Southern Illinois University; (5) the Community Health Center Expansion Program; (6) increasing local health protection grants; and (7) earmarking funding for mental health service initiatives under the Illinois Rural/Downstate Health Act. Effective July 1, 2008.

 

 

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    AN ACT concerning appropriations.

 

        Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

 

    Section 5.  In addition to any other amounts that may be appropriated for this purpose, the sum of $3,000,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for costs associated with staffing at the Center for Rural Health.

 

    Section 10.  In addition to any other amounts that may be appropriated for this purpose, the sum of $3,000,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for costs associated with the expansion of medical practitioner grant programs.

 

    Section 15.  In addition to any other amounts that may be appropriated for this purpose, the sum of $1,700,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for costs associated with the Rural Medical Education Initiative at the University of  Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford.

 

    Section 20.  In addition to any other amounts that may be appropriated for this purpose, the sum of $2,100,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for costs associated with the Rural Health Initiative at Southern Illinois University.

 

    Section 25.  In addition to any other amounts that may be appropriated for this purpose, the sum of $3,000,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for costs associated with the Community Health Center Expansion Program.

 

    Section 30.  In addition to any other amounts that may be appropriated for this purpose, the sum of $7,000,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for costs associated with increasing local health protection grants.

 

    Section 35.  In addition to any other amounts that may be appropriated for this purpose, the sum of $10,000,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for earmarking funding for mental health service initiatives under the Illinois Rural/Downstate Health Act, including tuition reimbursements to psychologists and psychiatrists, expanding medical assistance payments to providers, and improving telehealth/telemedicine capabilities at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.

 

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on July 1, 2008.