Illinois Compiled Statutes
ILCS Listing
Public
Acts Search
Guide
Disclaimer
Information maintained by the Legislative
Reference Bureau
Updating the database of the Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) is an ongoing process.
Recent laws may not yet be included in the ILCS database, but they are found on this site as Public
Acts soon after they become law. For information concerning the relationship between statutes and Public Acts, refer to the
Guide.
Because the statute database is maintained primarily for legislative drafting purposes,
statutory changes are sometimes included in the statute database before they take effect.
If the source note at the end of a Section of the statutes includes a Public Act that has
not yet taken effect, the version of the law that is currently in effect may have already
been removed from the database and you should refer to that Public Act to see the changes
made to the current law.
410 ILCS 325/3 (410 ILCS 325/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7403) Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) "Department" means the Department of Public Health. (2) "Local health authority" means the full-time official health department of board of health, as recognized by the Department, having jurisdiction over a particular area. (3) "Sexually transmitted infections" means a bacterial, viral, fungal or parasitic infection, determined by rule of the Department to be sexually transmissible, to be a threat to the public health and welfare, and to be an infection for which a legitimate public interest will be served by providing for regulation and treatment. In considering which infections are to be designated sexually transmitted infections, the Department shall consider such infections as chancroid, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, lymphogranuloma venereum, genital herpes simplex, chlamydia, human papillomavirus (HPV), mpox, nongonococcal urethritis (NGU), pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)/Acute Salpingitis, syphilis, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) for designation, and shall consider the recommendations and classifications of the Centers for Disease Control and other nationally recognized medical authorities. Not all infections that are sexually transmissible need be designated for purposes of this Act. (4) "Health care professional" means a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, a licensed physician assistant, or a licensed advanced practice registered nurse. (5) "Expedited partner therapy" means to prescribe, dispense, furnish, or otherwise provide prescription antibiotic drugs to the partner or partners of persons clinically diagnosed as infected with a sexually transmitted infection, without physical examination of the partner or partners. (Source: P.A. 103-1049, eff. 8-9-24.) |
|
