Sen. Jeffrey M. Schoenberg

Filed: 5/10/2004

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4612

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4612 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
5 amended by changing Section 5-565 as follows:
 
6     (20 ILCS 5/5-565)  (was 20 ILCS 5/6.06)
7     Sec. 5-565. In the Department of Public Health.
8     (a) The General Assembly declares it to be the public
9 policy of this State that all citizens of Illinois are entitled
10 to lead healthy lives. Governmental public health has a
11 specific responsibility to ensure that a system is in place to
12 allow the public health mission to be achieved. To develop a
13 system requires certain core functions to be performed by
14 government. The State Board of Health is to assume the
15 leadership role in advising the Director in meeting the
16 following functions:
17         (1) Needs assessment.
18         (2) Statewide health objectives.
19         (3) Policy development.
20         (4) Assurance of access to necessary services.
21     There shall be a State Board of Health composed of 17
22 persons, all of whom shall be appointed by the Governor, with
23 the advice and consent of the Senate for those appointed by the
24 Governor on and after June 30, 1998, and one of whom shall be a

 

 

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1 senior citizen age 60 or over. Five members shall be physicians
2 licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, one
3 representing a medical school faculty, one who is board
4 certified in preventive medicine, and one 2 who is are engaged
5 in private practice. One member shall be a dentist; one an
6 environmental health practitioner; one a local public health
7 administrator; one a local board of health member; one a
8 registered nurse; one a veterinarian; one a public health
9 academician; one a health care industry representative; one a
10 representative of the business community; one a representative
11 of the non-profit public interest community; and 2 4 shall be
12 citizens at large.
13     The terms of Board of Health members shall be 3 years,
14 except that members shall continue to serve on the Board of
15 Health until a replacement is appointed. Upon the effective
16 date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, in
17 the appointment of the Board of Health members appointed to
18 vacancies or positions with terms expiring on or before
19 December 31, 2004, the Governor shall appoint up to 6 members
20 to serve for terms of 3 years; up to 6 members to serve for
21 terms of 2 years; and up to 5 members to serve for a term of one
22 year, so that the term of no more than 6 members expire in the
23 same year. In the appointment of the first Board of Health
24 members appointed after September 19, 1991 (the effective date
25 of Public Act 87-633), the Governor shall appoint 5 members to
26 serve for terms of 5 years; 5 members to serve for terms of 2
27 years; and 5 members to serve for a term of one year. Members
28 appointed thereafter shall be appointed for terms of 3 years,
29 except that when an appointment is made to fill a vacancy, the
30 appointment shall be for the remaining term of the position
31 vacated. The initial terms for the 2 additional members of the
32 board who are citizens at large appointed under Public Act
33 90-607 shall be for 3 years each, with these positions
34 thereafter being filled as with other members appointed by the

 

 

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1 Governor. All members shall be legal residents of the State of
2 Illinois. The duties of the Board shall include, but not be
3 limited to, the following:
4         (1) To advise the Department of ways to encourage
5     public understanding and support of the Department's
6     programs.
7         (2) To evaluate all boards, councils, committees,
8     authorities, and bodies advisory to, or an adjunct of, the
9     Department of Public Health or its Director for the purpose
10     of recommending to the Director one or more of the
11     following:
12             (i) The elimination of bodies whose activities are
13         not consistent with goals and objectives of the
14         Department.
15             (ii) The consolidation of bodies whose activities
16         encompass compatible programmatic subjects.
17             (iii) The restructuring of the relationship
18         between the various bodies and their integration
19         within the organizational structure of the Department.
20             (iv) The establishment of new bodies deemed
21         essential to the functioning of the Department.
22         (3) To serve as an advisory group to the Director for
23     public health emergencies and control of health hazards.
24         (4) To advise the Director regarding public health
25     policy, and to make health policy recommendations
26     regarding priorities to the Governor through the Director.
27         (5) To present public health issues to the Director and
28     to make recommendations for the resolution of those issues.
29         (6) To recommend studies to delineate public health
30     problems.
31         (7) To make recommendations to the Governor through the
32     Director regarding the coordination of State public health
33     activities with other State and local public health
34     agencies and organizations.

 

 

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1         (8) To report on or before February 1 of each year on
2     the health of the residents of Illinois to the Governor,
3     the General Assembly, and the public.
4         (9) To review the final draft of all proposed
5     administrative rules, other than emergency or preemptory
6     rules and those rules that another advisory body must
7     approve or review within a statutorily defined time period,
8     of the Department after September 19, 1991 (the effective
9     date of Public Act 87-633). The Board shall review the
10     proposed rules within 90 days of submission by the
11     Department. The Department shall take into consideration
12     any comments and recommendations of the Board regarding the
13     proposed rules prior to submission to the Secretary of
14     State for initial publication. If the Department disagrees
15     with the recommendations of the Board, it shall submit a
16     written response outlining the reasons for not accepting
17     the recommendations.
18         In the case of proposed administrative rules or
19     amendments to administrative rules regarding immunization
20     of children against preventable communicable diseases
21     designated by the Director under the Communicable Disease
22     Prevention Act, after the Immunization Advisory Committee
23     has made its recommendations, the Board shall conduct 3
24     public hearings, geographically distributed throughout the
25     State. At the conclusion of the hearings, the State Board
26     of Health shall issue a report, including its
27     recommendations, to the Director. The Director shall take
28     into consideration any comments or recommendations made by
29     the Board based on these hearings.
30         (10) To deliver to the Governor for presentation to the
31     General Assembly a State Health Improvement Plan. The first
32     and second such plans shall be delivered to the Governor on
33     January 1, 2006 and on January 1, 2009 respectively, and
34     then every 4 years thereafter.

 

 

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1         The Plan shall recommend priorities and strategies to
2     improve the public health system and the health status of
3     Illinois residents, taking into consideration national
4     health objectives and system standards as frameworks for
5     assessment.
6         The Plan shall also take into consideration priorities
7     and strategies developed at the community level through the
8     Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs (IPLAN) and
9     any regional health improvement plans that may be
10     developed. The Plan shall focus on prevention as a key
11     strategy for long-term health improvement in Illinois.
12         The Plan shall examine and make recommendations on the
13     contributions and strategies of the public and private
14     sectors for improving health status and the public health
15     system in the State. In addition to recommendations on
16     health status improvement priorities and strategies for
17     the population of the State as a whole, the Plan shall make
18     recommendations regarding priorities and strategies for
19     reducing and eliminating health disparities in Illinois;
20     including racial, ethnic, gender, age, socio-economic and
21     geographic disparities.
22         The Director of the Illinois Department of Public
23     Health shall appoint a Planning Team that includes a range
24     of public, private, and voluntary sector stakeholders and
25     participants in the public health system. This Team shall
26     include: the directors of State agencies with public health
27     responsibilities (or their designees), including but not
28     limited to the Illinois Departments of Public Health and
29     Department of Human Services, representatives of local
30     health departments, representatives of local community
31     health partnerships, and individuals with expertise who
32     represent an array of organizations and constituencies
33     engaged in public health improvement and prevention.
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1     hearings addressing drafts of the Plan in representative
2     geographic areas of the State. Members of the Planning Team
3     shall receive no compensation for their services, but may
4     be reimbursed for their necessary expenses. To make
5     recommendations to the Governor through the Director
6     concerning the development and periodic updating of
7     Statewide health objectives encompassing, in part, the
8     periodically published federal health objectives for the
9     nation, which will provide the basis for the policy
10     development and assurance roles of the State Health
11     Department, and to make recommendations to the Governor
12     through the Director regarding legislation and funding
13     necessary to implement the objectives.
14         (11) Upon the request of the Governor, to recommend to
15     the Governor candidates for Director of Public Health when
16     vacancies occur in the position.
17         (12) To adopt bylaws for the conduct of its own
18     business, including the authority to establish ad hoc
19     committees to address specific public health programs
20     requiring resolution.
21     Upon appointment, the Board shall elect a chairperson from
22 among its members.
23     Members of the Board shall receive compensation for their
24 services at the rate of $150 per day, not to exceed $10,000 per
25 year, as designated by the Director for each day required for
26 transacting the business of the Board and shall be reimbursed
27 for necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their
28 duties. The Board shall meet from time to time at the call of
29 the Department, at the call of the chairperson, or upon the
30 request of 3 of its members, but shall not meet less than 4
31 times per year.
32     (b) (Blank).
33     (c) An Advisory Board on Necropsy Service to Coroners,
34 which shall counsel and advise with the Director on the

 

 

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1 administration of the Autopsy Act. The Advisory Board shall
2 consist of 11 members, including a senior citizen age 60 or
3 over, appointed by the Governor, one of whom shall be
4 designated as chairman by a majority of the members of the
5 Board. In the appointment of the first Board the Governor shall
6 appoint 3 members to serve for terms of 1 year, 3 for terms of 2
7 years, and 3 for terms of 3 years. The members first appointed
8 under Public Act 83-1538 shall serve for a term of 3 years. All
9 members appointed thereafter shall be appointed for terms of 3
10 years, except that when an appointment is made to fill a
11 vacancy, the appointment shall be for the remaining term of the
12 position vacant. The members of the Board shall be citizens of
13 the State of Illinois. In the appointment of members of the
14 Advisory Board the Governor shall appoint 3 members who shall
15 be persons licensed to practice medicine and surgery in the
16 State of Illinois, at least 2 of whom shall have received
17 post-graduate training in the field of pathology; 3 members who
18 are duly elected coroners in this State; and 5 members who
19 shall have interest and abilities in the field of forensic
20 medicine but who shall be neither persons licensed to practice
21 any branch of medicine in this State nor coroners. In the
22 appointment of medical and coroner members of the Board, the
23 Governor shall invite nominations from recognized medical and
24 coroners organizations in this State respectively. Board
25 members, while serving on business of the Board, shall receive
26 actual necessary travel and subsistence expenses while so
27 serving away from their places of residence.
28 (Source: P.A. 90-607, eff. 6-30-98; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00;
29 91-798, eff. 7-9-00.)".