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Human Services Committee
Adopted in House Comm. on Mar 14, 2007
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 981
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 981 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Department of Public Health Powers and |
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| Duties Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is |
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| amended by adding Section 2310-367 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 2310/2310-367 new) |
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| Sec. 2310-367. Health Data Task Force. |
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| (a) Subject to an appropriation or the availability of |
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| other funds identified for this purpose, the Health Data Task |
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| Force is created. In accordance with the recommendations of the |
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| 2007 Illinois State Health Improvement Plan, the Health Data |
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| Task Force shall develop a plan to create a linked health data |
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| system that measures, analyzes, and reports on the health |
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| status of Illinois residents, including those impacted by |
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| health disparities. The plan shall include, but not be limited |
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| to all of the following: |
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| (1) Approaches to assuring adequate data on race, |
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| ethnicity, geographic location, gender, age, sexual |
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| orientation, and other populations affected by health |
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| disparities. |
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| (2) Identification of and proposals for addressing |
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| privacy and other legal issues. |
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| (3) Identification of and approaches to solving |
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| compatibility issues, including software, hardware, |
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| platform, and other information systems issues. |
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| (4) Identification of needs and approaches to |
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| standardizing definitions of indicators across systems to |
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| assure comparability. |
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| (5) Approaches that assure the highest quality data |
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| collection. |
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| (6) Development of methods to increase the timeliness |
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| and availability of health data. |
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| (7) Integration of methods to increase the timeliness |
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| and availability of health data. |
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| (8) Methods for effective dissemination and use of the |
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| health data to non-governmental organizations for program |
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| development and policy planning. |
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| (b) The Health Data Task Force shall be composed of the |
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| following members: the Director of Public Health or his or her |
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| designee; the Director of Children and Family Services or his |
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| or her designee; the Director of Central Management Services or |
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| his or her designee; the Secretary of Human Services or his or |
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| her designee; the State Superintendent of Education or his or |
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| her designee; and a maximum of 20 public members appointed by |
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| the Governor including, but not be limited to, representatives |
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| of health care provider organizations, local health |
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| departments, minority health organizations, and other users |
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| and providers of public health data. |
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| (c) The Task Force members shall serve without |
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| compensation, but public members shall be reimbursed for their |
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| reasonable travel expenses incurred in performing their duties |
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| in connection with the Task Force. |
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| (d) The Department of Public Health shall be the primary |
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| agency in providing staff and administrative support to the |
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| Task Force. The other State agencies represented on the Task |
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| Force shall work cooperatively with the Department of Public |
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| Health to provide administrative support to the Task Force. |
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| (e) Within 90 days after the effective date of this |
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| amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, the Department of |
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| Public Health may contract with an independent vendor that has |
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| expertise in public health data management, analysis, and |
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| information systems. In addition, the Department may contract |
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| with a vendor to provide the task force with logistical and |
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| process support in the development of the plan to create a |
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| linked health data system. |
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| (f) The Task Force shall submit its plan to the Governor |
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| and to the General Assembly no later than December 31, 2008.
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