HB3088 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB3088

Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. Tom Cross

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

5 ILCS 375/15.1

from Ch. 127, par. 535.1

Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning optometric services.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning government.

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

Section 5. The State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971 is amended by changing Section 15.1 as follows:

(5 ILCS 375/15.1) (from Ch. 127, par. 535.1)

Sec. 15.1. Every group health insurance program or self-insurance health plan which provides coverage for services coming within the the practice of optometry as defined in the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987, as now or hereafter amended, shall provide to each member a written notice that such member may elect for optometric services received to be reimbursed to either a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches or to an optometrist licensed in this State.

This Section applies only to persons who become covered by such group insurance program or self-insurance health plan after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1979.

(Source: P.A. 85-1440.)