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 1                          STATE OF ILLINOIS
 2                   NINETY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
 3                               SENATE
 4                   Senate Joint Resolution No. 58
 5            Offered by Senators Rauschenberger, Syverson,
 6                          Trotter and Ronen

 7        WHEREAS, Medical instruments are continuously being  used
 8    outside the medical or hospital setting by patients; and

 9        WHEREAS,  Many  citizens  have  conditions,  illnesses or
10    diseases that require the use of medical instruments such  as
11    sterile hypodermic syringes or needles; and

12        WHEREAS,  The  Illinois  laws concerning the availability
13    and use of medical instruments were enacted when most medical
14    procedures and treatments were done in an office or  hospital
15    and do not address disease prevention; therefore, be it

16        RESOLVED,  BY  THE  SENATE  OF  THE NINETY-SECOND GENERAL
17    ASSEMBLY  OF  THE   STATE   OF   ILLINOIS,   THE   HOUSE   OF
18    REPRESENTATIVES  CONCURRING HEREIN, that there is created the
19    Commission on  Medical  Instruments;  this  Commission  shall
20    review   scientific   literature  regarding  availability  of
21    sterile  hypodermic  syringes   and   needles   and   disease
22    prevention   and   other   available   information  and  make
23    recommendation  to   the   Illinois   General   Assembly   on
24    appropriate  standards for the sale and possession of sterile
25    hypodermic syringes and needles; and be it further

26        RESOLVED,  That  the   Commission   shall   include   one
27    representative from the following organizations: Allied Waste
28    Industries,  the  AIDS  Foundation  of  Chicago,  the Chicago
29    Department of Public Health, the Cook  County  Department  of
30    Public Health, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, the
31    Illinois  Academy of Family Physicians, Illinois Chapter, the
32    American Academy of Pediatricians, the Illinois Department of
33    Public Health, the Illinois Family  Institute,  the  Illinois
 
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 1    Nurses Association, the Illinois Pharmacists Association, the
 2    Illinois  Public  Health  Association,  the  Illinois  Retail
 3    Merchants  Association,  the  Illinois State Medical Society,
 4    the Illinois Department of State  Police,  and  the  Illinois
 5    State's Attorneys Association; and be it further

 6        RESOLVED,  That  the  Commission shall conduct at least 2
 7    public hearings, one in Chicago and one in  Springfield;  and
 8    be it further

 9        RESOLVED,  That the members of the Commission shall adopt
10    bylaws and elect a chairperson;  members  of  the  Commission
11    shall  serve without compensation; the Illinois Department of
12    Public Health shall provide administrative  support  for  the
13    Commission; and be it further

14        RESOLVED,   That   the   Commission   shall   report  its
15    recommendations to the General Assembly and  Governor  on  or
16    before December 1, 2002.

17        Adopted by the Senate, May 9, 2002.


18    _______________________               _______________________
19    Secretary of the Senate               President of the Senate


20        Concurred  in  by  the  House  of Representatives, May 9,
21    2002.


22    _______________________               _______________________
23      Clerk of House of                     Speaker of House of
24       Representatives                        Representatives

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