Full Text of SB2218 095th General Assembly
SB2218 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 SB2218
Introduced 2/14/2008, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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20 ILCS 3960/3 |
from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1153 |
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Amends the Illinois Health Care Facilities Planning Act. Exempts construction and renovation of certain long-term care "campus facilities" from the Act's application. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning State government.
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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 Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 3960/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1153)
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on August 31, 2008)
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| Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this Act:
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| "Health care facilities" means and includes
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| facilities and organizations:
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| 1. An ambulatory surgical treatment center required to | 12 |
| be licensed
pursuant to the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment | 13 |
| Center Act;
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| 2. An institution, place, building, or agency required | 15 |
| to be licensed
pursuant to the Hospital Licensing Act;
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| 3. Skilled and intermediate long term care facilities | 17 |
| licensed under the
Nursing
Home Care Act;
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| 4. Hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory surgical | 19 |
| treatment centers, or
kidney disease treatment centers
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| maintained by the State or any department or agency | 21 |
| thereof;
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| 5. Kidney disease treatment centers, including a | 23 |
| free-standing
hemodialysis unit required to be licensed |
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| under the End Stage Renal Disease Facility Act; and
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| 6. An institution, place, building, or room used for | 3 |
| the performance of
outpatient surgical procedures that is | 4 |
| leased, owned, or operated by or on
behalf of an | 5 |
| out-of-state facility.
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| This Act shall not apply to the construction of any new | 7 |
| facility or the renovation of any existing facility located on | 8 |
| any campus facility as defined in Section 5-5.8b of the | 9 |
| Illinois Public Aid Code, provided that the campus facility | 10 |
| encompasses 30 or more contiguous acres and that the new or | 11 |
| renovated facility is intended for use by a licensed | 12 |
| residential facility. | 13 |
| No federally owned facility shall be subject to the | 14 |
| provisions of this
Act, nor facilities used solely for healing | 15 |
| by prayer or spiritual means.
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| No facility licensed under the Supportive Residences | 17 |
| Licensing Act or the
Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act
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| shall be subject to the provisions of this Act.
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| A facility designated as a supportive living facility that | 20 |
| is in good
standing with the program
established under Section | 21 |
| 5-5.01a of
the Illinois Public Aid Code shall not be subject to | 22 |
| the provisions of this
Act.
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| This Act does not apply to facilities granted waivers under | 24 |
| Section 3-102.2
of the Nursing Home Care Act. However, if a | 25 |
| demonstration project under that
Act applies for a certificate
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| of need to convert to a nursing facility, it shall meet the |
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| licensure and
certificate of need requirements in effect as of | 2 |
| the date of application. | 3 |
| This Act does not apply to a dialysis facility that | 4 |
| provides only dialysis training, support, and related services | 5 |
| to individuals with end stage renal disease who have elected to | 6 |
| receive home dialysis. This Act does not apply to a dialysis | 7 |
| unit located in a licensed nursing home that offers or provides | 8 |
| dialysis-related services to residents with end stage renal | 9 |
| disease who have elected to receive home dialysis within the | 10 |
| nursing home. The Board, however, may require these dialysis | 11 |
| facilities and licensed nursing homes to report statistical | 12 |
| information on a quarterly basis to the Board to be used by the | 13 |
| Board to conduct analyses on the need for proposed kidney | 14 |
| disease treatment centers.
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| This Act shall not apply to the closure of an entity or a | 16 |
| portion of an
entity licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act, | 17 |
| with the exceptions of facilities operated by a county or | 18 |
| Illinois Veterans Homes, that elects to convert, in
whole or in | 19 |
| part, to an assisted living or shared housing establishment
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| licensed under the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act.
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| This Act does not apply to any change of ownership of a | 22 |
| healthcare facility that is licensed under the Nursing Home | 23 |
| Care Act, with the exceptions of facilities operated by a | 24 |
| county or Illinois Veterans Homes. Changes of ownership of | 25 |
| facilities licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act must meet | 26 |
| the requirements set forth in Sections 3-101 through 3-119 of |
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| the Nursing Home Care Act.
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| With the exception of those health care facilities | 3 |
| specifically
included in this Section, nothing in this Act | 4 |
| shall be intended to
include facilities operated as a part of | 5 |
| the practice of a physician or
other licensed health care | 6 |
| professional, whether practicing in his
individual capacity or | 7 |
| within the legal structure of any partnership,
medical or | 8 |
| professional corporation, or unincorporated medical or
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| professional group. Further, this Act shall not apply to | 10 |
| physicians or
other licensed health care professional's | 11 |
| practices where such practices
are carried out in a portion of | 12 |
| a health care facility under contract
with such health care | 13 |
| facility by a physician or by other licensed
health care | 14 |
| professionals, whether practicing in his individual capacity
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| or within the legal structure of any partnership, medical or
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| professional corporation, or unincorporated medical or | 17 |
| professional
groups. This Act shall apply to construction or
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| modification and to establishment by such health care facility | 19 |
| of such
contracted portion which is subject to facility | 20 |
| licensing requirements,
irrespective of the party responsible | 21 |
| for such action or attendant
financial obligation.
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| "Person" means any one or more natural persons, legal | 23 |
| entities,
governmental bodies other than federal, or any | 24 |
| combination thereof.
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| "Consumer" means any person other than a person (a) whose | 26 |
| major
occupation currently involves or whose official capacity |
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| within the last
12 months has involved the providing, | 2 |
| administering or financing of any
type of health care facility, | 3 |
| (b) who is engaged in health research or
the teaching of | 4 |
| health, (c) who has a material financial interest in any
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| activity which involves the providing, administering or | 6 |
| financing of any
type of health care facility, or (d) who is or | 7 |
| ever has been a member of
the immediate family of the person | 8 |
| defined by (a), (b), or (c).
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| "State Board" means the Health Facilities Planning Board.
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| "Construction or modification" means the establishment, | 11 |
| erection,
building, alteration, reconstruction, modernization, | 12 |
| improvement,
extension, discontinuation, change of ownership, | 13 |
| of or by a health care
facility, or the purchase or acquisition | 14 |
| by or through a health care facility
of
equipment or service | 15 |
| for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes or for
facility | 16 |
| administration or operation, or any capital expenditure made by
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| or on behalf of a health care facility which
exceeds the | 18 |
| capital expenditure minimum; however, any capital expenditure
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| made by or on behalf of a health care facility for (i) the | 20 |
| construction or
modification of a facility licensed under the | 21 |
| Assisted Living and Shared
Housing Act or (ii) a conversion | 22 |
| project undertaken in accordance with Section 30 of the Older | 23 |
| Adult Services Act shall be excluded from any obligations under | 24 |
| this Act.
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| "Establish" means the construction of a health care | 26 |
| facility or the
replacement of an existing facility on another |
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| site.
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| "Major medical equipment" means medical equipment which is | 3 |
| used for the
provision of medical and other health services and | 4 |
| which costs in excess
of the capital expenditure minimum, | 5 |
| except that such term does not include
medical equipment | 6 |
| acquired
by or on behalf of a clinical laboratory to provide | 7 |
| clinical laboratory
services if the clinical laboratory is | 8 |
| independent of a physician's office
and a hospital and it has | 9 |
| been determined under Title XVIII of the Social
Security Act to | 10 |
| meet the requirements of paragraphs (10) and (11) of Section
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| 1861(s) of such Act. In determining whether medical equipment | 12 |
| has a value
in excess of the capital expenditure minimum, the | 13 |
| value of studies, surveys,
designs, plans, working drawings, | 14 |
| specifications, and other activities
essential to the | 15 |
| acquisition of such equipment shall be included.
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| "Capital Expenditure" means an expenditure: (A) made by or | 17 |
| on behalf of
a health care facility (as such a facility is | 18 |
| defined in this Act); and
(B) which under generally accepted | 19 |
| accounting principles is not properly
chargeable as an expense | 20 |
| of operation and maintenance, or is made to obtain
by lease or | 21 |
| comparable arrangement any facility or part thereof or any
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| equipment for a facility or part; and which exceeds the capital | 23 |
| expenditure
minimum.
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| For the purpose of this paragraph, the cost of any studies, | 25 |
| surveys, designs,
plans, working drawings, specifications, and | 26 |
| other activities essential
to the acquisition, improvement, |
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| expansion, or replacement of any plant
or equipment with | 2 |
| respect to which an expenditure is made shall be included
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| determining if such expenditure exceeds the capital | 4 |
| expenditures minimum.
Donations of equipment
or facilities to a | 5 |
| health care facility which if acquired directly by such
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| facility would be subject to review under this Act shall be | 7 |
| considered capital
expenditures, and a transfer of equipment or | 8 |
| facilities for less than fair
market value shall be considered | 9 |
| a capital expenditure for purposes of this
Act if a transfer of | 10 |
| the equipment or facilities at fair market value would
be | 11 |
| subject to review.
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| "Capital expenditure minimum" means $6,000,000, which | 13 |
| shall be annually
adjusted to reflect the increase in | 14 |
| construction costs due to inflation, for major medical | 15 |
| equipment and for all other
capital expenditures; provided, | 16 |
| however, that when a capital expenditure is
for the | 17 |
| construction or modification of a health and fitness center, | 18 |
| "capital
expenditure minimum" means the capital expenditure | 19 |
| minimum for all other
capital expenditures in effect on March | 20 |
| 1, 2000, which shall be annually
adjusted to reflect the | 21 |
| increase in construction costs due to inflation.
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| "Non-clinical service area" means an area (i) for the | 23 |
| benefit of the
patients, visitors, staff, or employees of a | 24 |
| health care facility and (ii) not
directly related to the | 25 |
| diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation of persons
receiving | 26 |
| services from the health care facility. "Non-clinical service |
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| areas"
include, but are not limited to, chapels; gift shops; | 2 |
| news stands; computer
systems; tunnels, walkways, and | 3 |
| elevators; telephone systems; projects to
comply with life | 4 |
| safety codes; educational facilities; student housing;
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| patient, employee, staff, and visitor dining areas; | 6 |
| administration and
volunteer offices; modernization of | 7 |
| structural components (such as roof
replacement and masonry | 8 |
| work); boiler repair or replacement; vehicle
maintenance and | 9 |
| storage facilities; parking facilities; mechanical systems for
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| heating, ventilation, and air conditioning; loading docks; and | 11 |
| repair or
replacement of carpeting, tile, wall coverings, | 12 |
| window coverings or treatments,
or furniture. Solely for the | 13 |
| purpose of this definition, "non-clinical service
area" does | 14 |
| not include health and fitness centers.
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| "Areawide" means a major area of the State delineated on a
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| geographic, demographic, and functional basis for health | 17 |
| planning and
for health service and having within it one or | 18 |
| more local areas for
health planning and health service. The | 19 |
| term "region", as contrasted
with the term "subregion", and the | 20 |
| word "area" may be used synonymously
with the term "areawide".
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| "Local" means a subarea of a delineated major area that on | 22 |
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geographic, demographic, and functional basis may be | 23 |
| considered to be
part of such major area. The term "subregion" | 24 |
| may be used synonymously
with the term "local".
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| "Areawide health planning organization" or "Comprehensive | 26 |
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planning organization" means the health systems agency |
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| designated by the
Secretary, Department of Health and Human | 2 |
| Services or any successor agency.
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| "Local health planning organization" means those local | 4 |
| health
planning organizations that are designated as such by | 5 |
| the areawide
health planning organization of the appropriate | 6 |
| area.
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| "Physician" means a person licensed to practice in | 8 |
| accordance with
the Medical Practice Act of 1987, as amended.
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| "Licensed health care professional" means a person | 10 |
| licensed to
practice a health profession under pertinent | 11 |
| licensing statutes of the
State of Illinois.
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| "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Department of | 13 |
| Public Health.
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| "Agency" means the Illinois Department of Public Health.
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| "Comprehensive health planning" means health planning | 16 |
| concerned with
the total population and all health and | 17 |
| associated problems that affect
the well-being of people and | 18 |
| that encompasses health services, health
manpower, and health | 19 |
| facilities; and the coordination among these and
with those | 20 |
| social, economic, and environmental factors that affect | 21 |
| health.
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| "Alternative health care model" means a facility or program | 23 |
| authorized
under the Alternative Health Care Delivery Act.
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| "Out-of-state facility" means a person that is both (i) | 25 |
| licensed as a
hospital or as an ambulatory surgery center under | 26 |
| the laws of another state
or that
qualifies as a hospital or an |
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| ambulatory surgery center under regulations
adopted pursuant | 2 |
| to the Social Security Act and (ii) not licensed under the
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| Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act, the Hospital | 4 |
| Licensing Act, or the
Nursing Home Care Act. Affiliates of | 5 |
| out-of-state facilities shall be
considered out-of-state | 6 |
| facilities. Affiliates of Illinois licensed health
care | 7 |
| facilities 100% owned by an Illinois licensed health care | 8 |
| facility, its
parent, or Illinois physicians licensed to | 9 |
| practice medicine in all its
branches shall not be considered | 10 |
| out-of-state facilities. Nothing in
this definition shall be
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| construed to include an office or any part of an office of a | 12 |
| physician licensed
to practice medicine in all its branches in | 13 |
| Illinois that is not required to be
licensed under the | 14 |
| Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act.
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| "Change of ownership of a health care facility" means a | 16 |
| change in the
person
who has ownership or
control of a health | 17 |
| care facility's physical plant and capital assets. A change
in | 18 |
| ownership is indicated by
the following transactions: sale, | 19 |
| transfer, acquisition, lease, change of
sponsorship, or other | 20 |
| means of
transferring control.
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| "Related person" means any person that: (i) is at least 50% | 22 |
| owned, directly
or indirectly, by
either the health care | 23 |
| facility or a person owning, directly or indirectly, at
least | 24 |
| 50% of the health
care facility; or (ii) owns, directly or | 25 |
| indirectly, at least 50% of the
health care facility.
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| "Charity care" means care provided by a health care |
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| facility for which the provider does not expect to receive | 2 |
| payment from the patient or a third-party payer. | 3 |
| "Freestanding emergency center" means a facility subject | 4 |
| to licensure under Section 32.5 of the Emergency Medical | 5 |
| Services (EMS) Systems Act. | 6 |
| (Source: P.A. 94-342, eff. 7-26-05; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; | 7 |
| 95-543, eff. 8-28-07; 95-584, eff. 8-31-07; revised 10-30-07.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 9 |
| becoming law.
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