Rep. Greg Harris

Filed: 11/15/2010

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1720

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1720 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by
5changing Section 3 as follows:
 
6    (210 ILCS 85/3)
7    Sec. 3. As used in this Act:
8    (A) "Hospital" means any institution, place, building,
9buildings on a campus, or agency, public or private, whether
10organized for profit or not, devoted primarily to the
11maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis and
12treatment or care of 2 or more unrelated persons admitted for
13overnight stay or longer in order to obtain medical, including
14obstetric, psychiatric and nursing, care of illness, disease,
15injury, infirmity, or deformity.
16    The term "hospital", without regard to length of stay,

 

 

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1shall also include:
2        (a) any facility which is devoted primarily to
3    providing psychiatric and related services and programs
4    for the diagnosis and treatment or care of 2 or more
5    unrelated persons suffering from emotional or nervous
6    diseases;
7        (b) all places where pregnant females are received,
8    cared for, or treated during delivery irrespective of the
9    number of patients received.
10    The term "hospital" includes general and specialized
11hospitals, tuberculosis sanitaria, mental or psychiatric
12hospitals and sanitaria, and includes maternity homes,
13lying-in homes, and homes for unwed mothers in which care is
14given during delivery.
15    The term "hospital" does not include:
16        (1) any person or institution required to be licensed
17    pursuant to the Nursing Home Care Act or the MR/DD
18    Community Care Act;
19        (2) hospitalization or care facilities maintained by
20    the State or any department or agency thereof, where such
21    department or agency has authority under law to establish
22    and enforce standards for the hospitalization or care
23    facilities under its management and control;
24        (3) hospitalization or care facilities maintained by
25    the federal government or agencies thereof;
26        (4) hospitalization or care facilities maintained by

 

 

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1    any university or college established under the laws of
2    this State and supported principally by public funds raised
3    by taxation;
4        (5) any person or facility required to be licensed
5    pursuant to the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and
6    Dependency Act;
7        (6) any facility operated solely by and for persons who
8    rely exclusively upon treatment by spiritual means through
9    prayer, in accordance with the creed or tenets of any
10    well-recognized church or religious denomination;
11        (7) an Alzheimer's disease management center
12    alternative health care model licensed under the
13    Alternative Health Care Delivery Act; or
14        (8) any veterinary hospital or clinic operated by a
15    veterinarian or veterinarians licensed under the
16    Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004 or
17    maintained by a State-supported or publicly funded
18    university or college.
19    (B) "Person" means the State, and any political subdivision
20or municipal corporation, individual, firm, partnership,
21corporation, company, association, or joint stock association,
22or the legal successor thereof.
23    (C) "Department" means the Department of Public Health of
24the State of Illinois.
25    (D) "Director" means the Director of Public Health of the
26State of Illinois.

 

 

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1    (E) "Perinatal" means the period of time between the
2conception of an infant and the end of the first month after
3birth.
4    (F) "Federally designated organ procurement agency" means
5the organ procurement agency designated by the Secretary of the
6U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the service
7area in which a hospital is located; except that in the case of
8a hospital located in a county adjacent to Wisconsin which
9currently contracts with an organ procurement agency located in
10Wisconsin that is not the organ procurement agency designated
11by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services for the
12service area in which the hospital is located, if the hospital
13applies for a waiver pursuant to 42 USC 1320b-8(a), it may
14designate an organ procurement agency located in Wisconsin to
15be thereafter deemed its federally designated organ
16procurement agency for the purposes of this Act.
17    (G) "Tissue bank" means any facility or program operating
18in Illinois that is certified by the American Association of
19Tissue Banks or the Eye Bank Association of America and is
20involved in procuring, furnishing, donating, or distributing
21corneas, bones, or other human tissue for the purpose of
22injecting, transfusing, or transplanting any of them into the
23human body. "Tissue bank" does not include a licensed blood
24bank. For the purposes of this Act, "tissue" does not include
25organs.
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1operations, have the same meaning as the term "campus" as set
2forth in federal Medicare regulations, 42 CFR 413.65.
3(Source: P.A. 96-219, eff. 8-10-09; 96-339, eff. 7-1-10;
496-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)
 
5    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
6becoming law.".