HB2359 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB2359

Introduced 2/26/2007, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 3960/2

from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1152

Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning the purpose of the Act.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act is amended by changing Section 2 as follows:

(20 ILCS 3960/2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1152)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on April 1, 2007)

Sec. 2. The The purpose of this Act is to establish a procedure designed to reverse the trends of increasing costs of health care resulting from unnecessary construction or modification of health care facilities. Such procedure shall represent an attempt by the State of Illinois to improve the financial ability of the public to obtain necessary health services, and to establish an orderly and comprehensive health care delivery system which will guarantee the availability of quality health care to the general public.

This Act shall establish a procedure (1) which requires a person establishing, constructing or modifying a health care facility, as herein defined, to have the qualifications, background, character and financial resources to adequately provide a proper service for the community; (2) that promotes through the process of recognized local and areawide health facilities planning, the orderly and economic development of health care facilities in the State of Illinois that avoids unnecessary duplication of such facilities; (3) that promotes planning for and development of health care facilities needed for comprehensive health care especially in areas where the health planning process has identified unmet needs; and (4) that carries out these purposes in coordination with the Agency and the comprehensive State health plan developed by that Agency.

(Source: P.A. 80-941.)