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91_HB1703
LRB9103856ACtm
1 AN ACT to amend the Nursing Home Care Act by adding
2 Section 3-304.1.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Nursing Home Care Act is amended by
6 adding Section 3-304.1 as follows:
7 (210 ILCS 45/3-304.1 new)
8 Sec. 3-304.1. Public computer access to information.
9 (a) The Department must make information regarding
10 nursing homes in the State available to the public in
11 electronic form on the World Wide Web, including all of the
12 following information:
13 (1) information submitted under Sections 3-103 and
14 3-207 except information concerning the remuneration of
15 personnel licensed, registered, or certified by the
16 Department of Professional Regulation and monthly charges
17 for an individual private resident;
18 (2) records of license and certification
19 inspections, surveys, and evaluations of facilities,
20 other reports of inspections, surveys, and evaluations of
21 resident care, and reports concerning a facility prepared
22 pursuant to Titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security
23 Act, subject to the provisions of the Social Security
24 Act;
25 (3) cost and reimbursement reports submitted by a
26 facility under Section 3-208, reports of audits of
27 facilities, and other public records concerning costs
28 incurred by, revenues received by, and reimbursement of
29 facilities; and
30 (4) complaints filed against a facility and
31 complaint investigation reports, except that a complaint
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1 or complaint investigation report shall not be disclosed
2 to a person other than the complainant or complainant's
3 representative before it is disclosed to a facility under
4 Section 3-702, and, further, except that a complainant or
5 resident's name shall not be disclosed except under
6 Section 3-702.
7 (b) No fee or other charge may be imposed by the
8 Department as a condition of accessing the information.
9 (c) The electronic public access provided through the
10 World Wide Web shall be in addition to any other electronic
11 or print distribution of the information.
12 (d) The information shall be made available as provided
13 in this Section in the shortest practicable time after it is
14 publicly available in any other form.
15 (Source: P.A. 85-1209; 85-1378.)