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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB0730
Introduced 2/7/2007, by Rep. JoAnn D. Osmond SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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210 ILCS 74/45 |
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410 ILCS 4/20 |
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410 ILCS 4/30 |
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745 ILCS 49/12 |
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Amends the Physical Fitness Facility Medical Emergency Preparedness Act, the Automated External Defibrillator Act, and the Good Samaritan Act. Deletes a provision requiring a person, unit of state or local government, or school district
operating a physical fitness facility to adopt a medical
emergency
plan, to have an Automated External
Defibrillator (AED) at the facility, and maintain the AED in accordance with certain standards in order to avoid civil liability. Deletes provisions requiring a person who acquires an AED to take reasonable measures to ensure that the AED is used by only trained AED users and that the AED is registered with the EMS
system hospital in the vicinity of where the AED
will primarily be located. Adds a provision requiring that a person who acquires an AED take reasonable measures to ensure that any person considered to be an anticipated rescuer or user will have successfully completed a course of instruction in accordance with the standards of a nationally recognized organization or a course of instruction in accordance with the rules adopted under the Act to use an AED and to perform cardiovascular resuscitation (CPR). In a Section involving exemption from civil liability, deletes provisions mandating the requirements of the Act to be met in order for certain persons to avoid civil liability in relation to an act or omission involving an AED. Provides that any person who in good faith, not for compensation, renders
emergency medical care involving the use of an AED in accordance with his or her training is
not liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or
omission, except for willful and wanton misconduct, by that
person in rendering that care (now, any person who has
successfully completed the training requirements of a course in
basic emergency care of a person in cardiac arrest that included training in the operation and use of an AED and was conducted in accordance with the standards of the
American Heart Association). Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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HB0730 |
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LRB095 04021 KBJ 24058 b |
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| AN ACT concerning public health.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Physical Fitness
Facility
Medical Emergency |
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| Preparedness Act is amended by changing Section 45 as follows: |
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| (210 ILCS 74/45)
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| Sec. 45. Liability. Nothing in this Act shall be construed |
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| to either
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expand the exemptions from civil liability |
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| in connection with the purchase or
use of an
automated external |
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| defibrillator that are provided under the Automated External
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| Defibrillator Act or under any other provision of law.
A right |
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| of action does not exist in connection with the use or non-use |
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| of an
automated external defibrillator at a facility governed |
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| by this Act, except for willful or wanton misconduct , provided
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| that the person, unit of state or local government, or school |
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| district
operating the facility has adopted a medical
emergency
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| plan as required under Section 10 of this Act, has an automated |
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| external
defibrillator at the facility as required under |
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| Section 15 of this Act, and has
maintained the automated |
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| external defibrillator in accordance with the rules
adopted by |
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| the Department .
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| (Source: P.A. 93-910, eff. 1-1-05.) |