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 1        AN ACT to amend  the  Emergency  Medical  Services  (EMS)
 2    Systems Act.

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

 5        Section 5.  The Emergency Medical Services (EMS)  Systems
 6    Act is amended by changing Section 3.205 as follows:

 7        (210 ILCS 50/3.205)
 8        Sec. 3.205.  State Trauma Advisory Council.
 9        (a)  There  shall be established within the Department of
10    Public Health a State Trauma Advisory  Council,  which  shall
11    serve  as  an  advisory  body  to  the  Department on matters
12    related to trauma care and trauma centers.
13        (b)  Membership  of  the  Council   shall   include   one
14    representative  from each Regional Trauma Advisory Committee,
15    to be  appointed  by  each  Committee.   The  Governor  shall
16    appoint the following additional members:
17             (1)  An EMS Medical Director,
18             (2)  A trauma center medical director,
19             (3)  A trauma surgeon,
20             (4)  A trauma nurse coordinator,
21             (5)  A representative from a private vehicle service
22        provider,
23             (6)  A  representative from a public vehicle service
24        provider,
25             (7)  A member of the  State  EMS  Advisory  Council,
26        and.
27             (8)  A neurosurgeon.
28        (c)  Of  the  members first appointed, 5 members shall be
29    appointed for  a  term  of  one  year,  5  members  shall  be
30    appointed  for  a  term of 2 years, and the remaining members
31    shall be appointed for a term  of  3  years.   The  terms  of
 
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 1    subsequent appointees shall be 3 years.  All appointees shall
 2    serve until their successors are appointed and qualified.
 3        (d)  The  Council  shall  be  provided a 90-day period in
 4    which to review and comment upon all rules  proposed  by  the
 5    Department  pursuant  to  this  Act  concerning  trauma care,
 6    except for emergency rules adopted pursuant to  Section  5-45
 7    of  the  Illinois  Administrative  Procedure Act.  The 90-day
 8    review and comment period may commence upon the  Department's
 9    submission  of  the  proposed rules to the individual Council
10    members, if the Council  is  not  meeting  at  the  time  the
11    proposed   rules   are   ready   for   Council  review.   Any
12    non-emergency rules adopted prior  to  the  Council's  90-day
13    review  and  comment  period  shall be null and void.  If the
14    Council fails to advise  the  Department  within  its  90-day
15    review and comment period, the rule shall be considered acted
16    upon;
17        (e)  Council  members  shall be reimbursed for reasonable
18    travel expenses incurred  during  the  performance  of  their
19    duties under this Section.
20        (f)  The  Department shall provide administrative support
21    to the Council for the preparation of the agenda and  minutes
22    for  Council  meetings  and distribution of proposed rules to
23    Council members.
24        (g)  The Council shall act pursuant to  bylaws  which  it
25    adopts,  which  shall  include the annual election of a Chair
26    and Vice-Chair.
27        (h)  The Director or his designee shall be present at all
28    Council meetings.
29        (i)  Nothing in this Section shall preclude  the  Council
30    from  reviewing  and  commenting on proposed rules which fall
31    under the purview of the State EMS Advisory Council.
32    (Source: P.A. 89-177, eff. 7-19-95; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)

33        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 
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 1    becoming law.

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