Full Text of SB3047 96th General Assembly
SB3047 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 SB3047
Introduced 2/8/2010, by Sen. David Koehler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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20 ILCS 4045/1 |
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20 ILCS 4045/5 |
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20 ILCS 4045/15 |
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20 ILCS 4045/20 |
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20 ILCS 4045/25 |
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20 ILCS 4045/30 rep. |
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20 ILCS 4045/35 rep. |
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Amends the Health Care Justice Act. Changes the short title to the Health Care Justice Implementation Act of 2010. Provides that the mission goals of the Health Care Justice Implementation Task Force are to monitor the implementation of the federal health care reforms and make recommendations, to report regarding additional reforms needed to ensure affordable health care, and to assess current programs. Contains provisions concerning reports, public hearings, and research assessments. Effective July 1, 2010.
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| AN ACT concerning health care.
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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 Health Care
Justice Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Sections 1, 5, 15, 20, and 25 as follows: | 6 |
| (20 ILCS 4045/1)
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| Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Health | 8 |
| Care
Justice Implementation Act of 2010 .
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| (Source: P.A. 93-973, eff. 8-20-04.) | 10 |
| (20 ILCS 4045/5)
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| Sec. 5. Legislative findings. The General Assembly | 12 |
| recognizes that the
U.S. census reported that on any given day | 13 |
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estimated
1,800,000 Illinoisans are without health | 14 |
| insurance ,
and according to a March 2003 Robert Wood Johnson | 15 |
| study, nearly 30% of the
non-elderly Illinois population | 16 |
| (3,122,000) during all or a large part of 2001 or 2002 were
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| uninsured;
a growing number of
Illinoisans are under-insured, | 18 |
| the consumer's share of the cost of health
insurance is | 19 |
| growing, coverage in benefit packages is decreasing, and
record | 20 |
| numbers of consumer complaints are lodged against managed care
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| companies regarding access to necessary health care services . | 22 |
| With new federal health care reform legislation the number of |
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| uninsured Illinoisans will decrease dramatically. However, | 2 |
| there will still be tens of thousands of uninsured Illinoisans. | 3 |
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General Assembly believes that the State must work in | 4 |
| cooperation with the federal government to implement these | 5 |
| federal reforms effectively and in a thoughtful and expedited | 6 |
| manner to assure access to
quality health care for all | 7 |
| residents of Illinois, and at the same time, the
State must | 8 |
| contain health care costs while maintaining and improving the
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| quality of health care .
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| (Source: P.A. 93-973, eff. 8-20-04.) | 11 |
| (20 ILCS 4045/15)
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| Sec. 15. Health Care Justice Implementation Act of 2010 | 13 |
| care access plan. On or before September 1, 2010 the Health | 14 |
| Care Justice Implementation Task Force shall be created to | 15 |
| accomplish the following mission: | 16 |
| (1) Monitor the implementation of federal reforms and | 17 |
| make recommendations. The Task Force shall monitor the | 18 |
| implementation of federal reforms and make recommendations | 19 |
| to the executive and legislative branches of Illinois | 20 |
| government concerning implementation. The Task Force shall | 21 |
| file with the General Assembly a recommendation report by | 22 |
| January 1st of every year as it pertains to those reforms | 23 |
| that will need to be implemented in that year. In addition, | 24 |
| a quarterly assessment shall be developed as it pertains to | 25 |
| how State government's process of implementing these |
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| federal reforms is progressing. | 2 |
| (2) Additional recommendations regarding reforms. The | 3 |
| Task Force shall issue a report on March 1, 2012 regarding | 4 |
| additional reforms needed to fully comply with Section 10 | 5 |
| of this Act. | 6 |
| (3) Assessment of current programs. The Task Force | 7 |
| shall issue recommendations and positions on a wide range | 8 |
| of issues, as seen fit by Task Force members, as it | 9 |
| pertains to existing programs and needed changes to these | 10 |
| programs. July 1, 2007, the
State of
Illinois is strongly | 11 |
| encouraged to implement a health care access plan that does | 12 |
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following:
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| (1) provides access to a full range of preventive, | 14 |
| acute, and
long-term health care services;
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| (2) maintains and improves the quality of health care | 16 |
| services offered
to Illinois residents;
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| (3) provides portability of coverage, regardless of | 18 |
| employment status;
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| (4) provides core benefits for all Illinois residents;
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| (5) encourages regional and local consumer | 21 |
| participation;
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| (6) contains cost-containment measures;
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| (7) provides a mechanism for reviewing and | 24 |
| implementing multiple
approaches to preventive medicine | 25 |
| based on new technologies; and
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| (8) promotes affordable coverage options for the small |
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| business market.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-973, eff. 8-20-04.) | 3 |
| (20 ILCS 4045/20)
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| Sec. 20. Adequate Health Care Justice Implementation Task | 5 |
| Force.
There is created a an Adequate Health Care Justice | 6 |
| Implementation Task Force. The Task Force
shall consist of 29 | 7 |
| voting members appointed as follows: 5 shall be appointed by | 8 |
| the Governor; 6 shall be appointed by the President of the | 9 |
| Senate,
6 shall be appointed by the Minority Leader of the | 10 |
| Senate, 6 shall be
appointed by the Speaker of the House of | 11 |
| Representatives, and 6 shall be
appointed by the Minority | 12 |
| Leader of the House of Representatives. The Task Force shall | 13 |
| have a chairman and a vice-chairman who
shall be elected by the | 14 |
| voting members at the first meeting
of the Task Force. The | 15 |
| Director of Public
Health or his or her designee, the Director | 16 |
| of Aging or his or
her designee, the Director of Healthcare and | 17 |
| Family Services or his or her
designee, the Director of | 18 |
| Insurance or his or her designee, and
the Secretary of Human | 19 |
| Services or his or her designee shall represent their | 20 |
| respective departments and shall be invited to attend Task | 21 |
| Force meetings, but shall not be members of the Task Force. The | 22 |
| members of the Task Force shall be appointed
within 60 30 days | 23 |
| after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th | 24 |
| General Assembly and hold its first meeting within 30 days | 25 |
| thereafter . The departments of State
government represented on
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| the Task Force shall work cooperatively to provide | 2 |
| administrative
support for the Task Force; the Department of | 3 |
| Public Health shall be the
primary agency in providing that | 4 |
| administrative support.
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| (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.) | 6 |
| (20 ILCS 4045/25)
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| Sec. 25. Public hearings.
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| (a) The Task Force shall seek public
input on all 3 of its | 9 |
| mission goals the development of the health care access plan by | 10 |
| holding 4 public hearings each year throughout the State
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| public hearing in each Illinois congressional district | 12 |
| starting no later than January 1, 2005 and
ending on November | 13 |
| 30, 2005 . Each State Representative and State Senator
located | 14 |
| in
each such congressional district shall be invited to | 15 |
| participate in
the hearing in that district
and help to gather | 16 |
| input from interested parties. A web site for the Task Force | 17 |
| shall be developed and
linked to
the Governor's home page for | 18 |
| input to be
provided and to keep the public informed. The Task | 19 |
| Force's web site shall be
specifically highlighted and have | 20 |
| independent pages reporting all activities
and linkages
for | 21 |
| people to access. Minutes from all of the Task Force's meetings | 22 |
| shall be
available on
the web site, and a hard copy of this | 23 |
| information shall also be made available
for those
persons | 24 |
| without access to the Task Force's web site.
The Task Force may | 25 |
| also consult with
health care providers, health care consumers, |
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| business, insurers, and other appropriate
individuals and | 2 |
| organizations to assist in the development of the
health care | 3 |
| access plan.
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| (b) Not later than January 1, 2011 September 1, 2004 , the | 5 |
| Illinois Department of Public
Health,
subject to appropriation | 6 |
| or the availability of other funds for such purposes
and using | 7 |
| a public request for proposals process, shall
contract with an
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| independent research entity experienced in assessing the | 9 |
| implementation of health care reforms,
health care financing, | 10 |
| and health care delivery models. Upon the request of at
least | 11 |
| one-third one-fourth of the Task Force members, the research | 12 |
| entity
shall be
available to the Task Force for the purpose of | 13 |
| assessing other issues that Task Force members deem necessary | 14 |
| financial costs and
the different
health care models being | 15 |
| discussed . All inquiries made by Task Force members to
the
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| independent research entity shall be made available on the Task | 17 |
| Force's web
site.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-973, eff. 8-20-04.) | 19 |
| (20 ILCS 4045/30 rep.) | 20 |
| (20 ILCS 4045/35 rep.) | 21 |
| Section 90. The Health Care
Justice Act is amended by | 22 |
| repealing Sections 30 and 35.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 24 |
| 2010.
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