Full Text of HB4117 97th General Assembly
HB4117ham001 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Thomas Morrison Filed: 2/16/2012
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4117
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4117 by replacing | 3 | | the title with the following: | 4 | | "AN ACT concerning regulation, which may be referred to as | 5 | | the Women's Health and Safety Act of 2012."; and | 6 | | by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | 7 | | following:
| 8 | | "Section 5. The Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act is | 9 | | amended by changing Section 3 and by adding Section 6.2 as | 10 | | follows:
| 11 | | (210 ILCS 5/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 157-8.3)
| 12 | | Sec. 3.
As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise | 13 | | requires, the
following words and phrases shall have the | 14 | | meanings ascribed to them:
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| 1 | | (A) "Ambulatory surgical treatment center" means any | 2 | | institution, place
or building devoted primarily to the | 3 | | maintenance and operation of
facilities for the performance of | 4 | | surgical procedures or any facility in
which a medical or | 5 | | surgical procedure is utilized to terminate 50 or more | 6 | | pregnancies in any calendar year a pregnancy ,
irrespective of | 7 | | whether the facility is devoted primarily to this purpose.
Such | 8 | | facility shall not provide beds or other accommodations for the
| 9 | | overnight stay of patients; however, facilities devoted | 10 | | exclusively to the
treatment of children may provide | 11 | | accommodations and beds for their patients
for up to 23 hours | 12 | | following admission. Individual patients shall be
discharged | 13 | | in an ambulatory condition without danger to the continued well
| 14 | | being of the patients or shall be transferred to a hospital.
| 15 | | The term "ambulatory surgical treatment center" does not | 16 | | include any of the
following:
| 17 | | (1) Any institution, place, building or agency | 18 | | required to be licensed
pursuant to the "Hospital Licensing | 19 | | Act", approved July 1, 1953, as amended.
| 20 | | (2) Any person or institution required to be licensed | 21 | | pursuant to the
Nursing Home Care Act, the Specialized | 22 | | Mental Health Rehabilitation Act, or the ID/DD Community | 23 | | Care Act.
| 24 | | (3) Hospitals or ambulatory surgical treatment centers | 25 | | maintained by the
State or any department or agency | 26 | | thereof, where such department or agency
has authority |
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| 1 | | under law to establish and enforce standards for the
| 2 | | hospitals or ambulatory surgical treatment centers under | 3 | | its management and
control.
| 4 | | (4) Hospitals or ambulatory surgical treatment centers | 5 | | maintained by the
Federal Government or agencies thereof.
| 6 | | (5) Any place, agency, clinic, or practice, public or | 7 | | private, whether
organized for profit or not, devoted | 8 | | exclusively to the performance of
dental or oral surgical | 9 | | procedures.
| 10 | | (B) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, | 11 | | corporation,
company, association, or joint stock association, | 12 | | or the legal successor
thereof.
| 13 | | (C) "Department" means the Department of Public Health of | 14 | | the State of
Illinois.
| 15 | | (D) "Director" means the Director of the Department of | 16 | | Public Health of
the State of Illinois.
| 17 | | (E) "Physician" means a person licensed to practice | 18 | | medicine in all of
its branches in the State of Illinois.
| 19 | | (F) "Dentist" means a person licensed to practice dentistry | 20 | | under the
Illinois Dental Practice Act.
| 21 | | (G) "Podiatrist" means a person licensed to practice | 22 | | podiatry under
the Podiatric Medical Practice Act of 1987.
| 23 | | (Source: P.A. 96-339, eff. 7-1-10; 97-38, eff. 6-28-11; 97-227, | 24 | | eff. 1-1-12; revised 9-28-11.)
| 25 | | (210 ILCS 5/6.2 new) |
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| 1 | | Sec. 6.2. Exceptions and preferences for abortion clinics; | 2 | | other statutes and rules. Notwithstanding any other statute, | 3 | | rule, or regulation to the contrary, an ambulatory surgical | 4 | | treatment center utilized to terminate pregnancies must comply | 5 | | with all of the statutes, rules, and regulations generally | 6 | | applicable to other ambulatory surgical treatment centers. An | 7 | | ambulatory surgical treatment center required to perform | 8 | | construction or other physical renovation in order to comply | 9 | | with the statutes, rules, and regulations applicable pursuant | 10 | | to this Section shall have until January 1, 2016 to complete | 11 | | any such construction or other physical renovation. ".
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