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92_HB1553ham001
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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1553
2 AMENDMENT NO. _______. Amend House Bill 1553 by
3 replacing the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT concerning medicine."; and
5 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
6 following:
7 "Section 5. The Department of Public Health Powers and
8 Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
9 amended by adding Section 2310-372 as follows:
10 (20 ILCS 2310/2310-372 new)
11 Sec. 2310-372. Ambulatory surgery center cardiac
12 catheterization laboratories. For the purposes of this
13 Section, "ambulatory surgery center" means an ambulatory
14 surgery center owned by a hospital that has an approved open
15 heart surgery program. For the purposes of this Section,
16 "inspection standards" means all standards and requirements
17 administered by the Department under the Hospital Licensing
18 Act and any other hospital inspection programs operated by
19 the Department. On and after the effective date of this
20 amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, any cardiac
21 catheterization laboratory located within an ambulatory
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1 surgery center shall be subject to the same inspection
2 standards as are applicable to a non-mobile cardiac
3 catheterization laboratory located within a hospital located
4 in this State. If a particular standard or requirement
5 applies to a cardiac catherization laboratory located within
6 an ambulatory surgery center immediately before the effective
7 date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly and
8 is more stringent, however, then the more stringent standard
9 or requirement shall remain applicable.
10 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
11 becoming law."