99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB4094

 

Introduced , by Rep. Norine Hammond

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
210 ILCS 47/3-202

    Amends the ID/DD Community Care Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall require that each long-term care for under age 22 facility: (1) place video cameras in the common areas of the facility; (2) place audio recording equipment in each private bedroom of the facility with the consent of all residents of the bedroom capable of knowingly consenting to the placement of that equipment, or if incapable of knowingly consenting, the parent or guardian of the resident; and (3) obtain an insurance policy to cover the costs of the equipment and its installation.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The ID/DD Community Care Act is amended by
5changing Section 3-202 as follows:
 
6    (210 ILCS 47/3-202)
7    Sec. 3-202. Standards for facilities.
8    (a) The Department shall prescribe minimum standards for
9facilities. These standards shall regulate:
10        (1) Location and construction of the facility,
11    including plumbing, heating, lighting, ventilation, and
12    other physical conditions which shall ensure the health,
13    safety, and comfort of residents and their protection from
14    fire hazard;
15        (2) To the extent this Act has not established minimum
16    staffing requirements within this Act, the numbers and
17    qualifications of all personnel, including management and
18    nursing personnel, having responsibility for any part of
19    the care given to residents; specifically, the Department
20    shall establish staffing ratios for facilities which shall
21    specify the number of staff hours per resident of care that
22    are needed for professional nursing care for various types
23    of facilities or areas within facilities;

 

 

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1        (3) All sanitary conditions within the facility and its
2    surroundings, including water supply, sewage disposal,
3    food handling, and general hygiene, which shall ensure the
4    health and comfort of residents;
5        (4) Diet related to the needs of each resident based on
6    good nutritional practice and on recommendations which may
7    be made by the physicians attending the resident;
8        (5) Equipment essential to the health and welfare of
9    the residents;
10        (6) A program of habilitation and rehabilitation for
11    those residents who would benefit from such programs;
12        (7) A program for adequate maintenance of physical
13    plant and equipment;
14        (8) Adequate accommodations, staff and services for
15    the number and types of residents for whom the facility is
16    licensed to care, including standards for temperature and
17    relative humidity within comfort zones determined by the
18    Department based upon a combination of air temperature,
19    relative humidity and air movement. Such standards shall
20    also require facility plans that provide for health and
21    comfort of residents at medical risk as determined by the
22    attending physician whenever the temperature and relative
23    humidity are outside such comfort zones established by the
24    Department. The standards must include a requirement that
25    areas of a facility used by residents of the facility be
26    air-conditioned and heated by means of operable

 

 

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1    air-conditioning and heating equipment. The areas subject
2    to this air-conditioning and heating requirement include,
3    without limitation, bedrooms or common areas such as
4    sitting rooms, activity rooms, living rooms, community
5    rooms, and dining rooms;
6        (9) Development of evacuation and other appropriate
7    safety plans for use during weather, health, fire, physical
8    plant, environmental and national defense emergencies; and
9        (10) Maintenance of minimum financial or other
10    resources necessary to meet the standards established
11    under this Section, and to operate and conduct the facility
12    in accordance with this Act.
13    (b) The Department shall require that each long-term care
14for under age 22 facility:
15        (1) place video cameras in the common areas of the
16    facility;
17        (2) place audio recording equipment in each private
18    bedroom of the facility with the consent of all residents
19    of the bedroom capable of knowingly consenting to the
20    placement of that equipment, or if incapable of knowingly
21    consenting, the parent or guardian of the resident; and
22        (3) obtain an insurance policy to cover the costs of
23    the equipment and its installation.
24(Source: P.A. 96-339, eff. 7-1-10; 97-38, eff. 6-28-11.)