Public Act 096-1268
 
HB5838 EnrolledLRB096 19057 KTG 34448 b


  
    AN ACT concerning regulation.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  


 
    Section 5. The Physical Fitness
Facility
Medical Emergency 
Preparedness Act is amended  by changing Section 15 as follows:
 
    (210 ILCS 74/15)
    Sec. 15. Automated external defibrillator required.
    (a) By the dates specified in Section 50, every physical 
fitness facility
must have at least one AED on the facility 
premises.  The Department
shall adopt
rules to ensure 
coordination with local emergency medical services systems

regarding the
placement and use of AEDs in physical fitness 
facilities. The Department may
adopt
rules requiring a facility 
to have more than one AED on the premises, based on
factors

that include the following:
        (1) The size of the area or the number of buildings or 
    floors occupied by
the facility.
        (2) The number of persons using the facility, excluding 
    spectators.
    (b) A physical fitness facility
must ensure that
there is a 
trained
AED user on staff during staffed business hours. For 
purposes
of this Act, "trained AED user" has the meaning 
ascribed to that term in Section 10 of the Automated External 
Defibrillator Act.
    (b-5) The Department shall adopt rules that
encourage any 
non-employee coach, non-employee instructor, or
other 
similarly situated non-employee anticipated rescuer
who uses a 
physical fitness facility in conjunction with the
supervision 
of physical fitness activities to complete a course of

instruction that would qualify such a person as a trained
AED 
user, as defined in Section 10 of the Automated External 
Defibrillator Act.
    (b-10) In the case of an outdoor physical fitness facility, 
the AED must be housed in a building, if any, that is within 
300 feet of the outdoor facility where an event or
activity is 
being conducted. If there is such a building within the 
required
distance, the building must provide unimpeded and open

access to the housed AED, and the building's entrances shall

further provide marked directions to the housed AED. If there 
is no
such building, the person responsible for supervising the 
activity at the outdoor physical fitness facility shall ensure 
that an AED is available at the outdoor facility during the 
time that the event or activity at the facility is being 
conducted.

    (b-15) Facilities described in paragraph (1.5) of Section 
5.25 must have an AED on site as well as a trained AED user 
available only during activities or events sponsored and 
conducted or supervised by a person or persons employed by the 
unit of local government, school, college, or university.
    (c) Every physical fitness facility must ensure that every 
AED on the
facility's
premises is properly tested and 
maintained in accordance with rules adopted by
the
Department.
(Source: P.A. 95-712, eff. 1-1-09; 96-748, eff. 1-1-10; 96-873, 
eff. 1-21-10.)


Effective Date:  1/1/2011