97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB2926

 

Introduced 2/23/2011, by Rep. Robert W. Pritchard

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
745 ILCS 10/6-101  from Ch. 85, par. 6-101
745 ILCS 10/6-104  from Ch. 85, par. 6-104
745 ILCS 10/6-105  from Ch. 85, par. 6-105
745 ILCS 10/6-106  from Ch. 85, par. 6-106
745 ILCS 10/6-107  from Ch. 85, par. 6-107
745 ILCS 10/6-108  from Ch. 85, par. 6-108
745 ILCS 10/6-109  from Ch. 85, par. 6-109

    Amends the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act. Adds to the Article concerning medical, hospital, and public health activities a definition of "service agency under contract with a public entity" to mean an entity under contract with a local public entity to provide emergency and sick call medical services to inmates of a county jail. Adds "a service agency under contract with a public entity" to provisions granting immunity to a local public entity or a public employee concerning medical care.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Local Governmental and Governmental
5Employees Tort Immunity Act is amended by changing Sections
66-101, 6-104, 6-105, 6-106, 6-107, 6-108, and 6-109 as follows:
 
7    (745 ILCS 10/6-101)  (from Ch. 85, par. 6-101)
8    Sec. 6-101. As used in this Article, unless the context
9otherwise requires:
10    (a) "Medical facility" includes a hospital, infirmary,
11clinic, dispensary, mental institution or similar facility.
12    (b) "Mental institution" means any medical facility or part
13of any medical facility used primarily for the care or
14treatment of persons committed for mental illness or addiction.
15    (c) "Public health clinic" means an outpatient clinic
16conducted by a locally based not-for-profit corporation, or by
17any local board of health whose health department is recognized
18by, and has a designation status established by, the Illinois
19Department of Public Health.
20    (c-5) "Service agency under contract with a public entity"
21means an entity under contract with a local public entity to
22provide emergency services and sick call medical services to
23inmates of a county jail.

 

 

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1    (d) "Standing orders physician" means a person licensed to
2practice medicine in all its branches in Illinois and who,
3under an agreement with a locally based not-for-profit
4corporation which conducts a public health clinic which
5provides among its services free medical services to indigent
6persons unable to pay for their own medical care, or a local
7board of health, provides medical oversight to a public health
8clinic in accordance with the following:
9        (1) reviews the protocols for the public health clinic
10    and amends the protocols from time to time in keeping with
11    current trends in sound medical practice;
12        (2) reviews the protocols, as amended, with the
13    professional staff of the public health clinic at least
14    once a year;
15        (3) participates in a site visit of a clinic covered by
16    the standing orders at least once a year;
17        (4) signs standing orders for medical procedures
18    conducted in the public health clinic in conformance with
19    sound medical practice; and
20        (5) is available for consultation with the
21    professional clinic staff.
22(Source: P.A. 86-950.)
 
23    (745 ILCS 10/6-104)  (from Ch. 85, par. 6-104)
24    Sec. 6-104. (a) A Neither a local public entity, a service
25agency under contract with a public entity, and nor a public

 

 

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1employee are not is liable for an injury resulting from the
2policy decision to perform or not to perform any act to promote
3the public health of the community by preventing disease or
4controlling the communication of disease within the community
5if such decision was the result of the exercise of discretion
6vested in the local public entity or the public employee,
7whether or not such discretion was abused.
8    (b) A Neither a local public entity, a service agency under
9contract with a public entity, and nor a public employee are
10not is liable for an injury caused by an act or omission in
11carrying out with due care a decision described in subdivision
12(a).
13(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2983.)
 
14    (745 ILCS 10/6-105)  (from Ch. 85, par. 6-105)
15    Sec. 6-105. A Neither a local public entity, a service
16agency under contract with a public entity, and nor a public
17employee acting within the scope of his employment are not is
18liable for injury caused by the failure to make a physical or
19mental examination, or to make an adequate physical or mental
20examination of any person for the purpose of determining
21whether such person has a disease or physical or mental
22condition that would constitute a hazard to the health or
23safety of himself or others.
24(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2983.)
 

 

 

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1    (745 ILCS 10/6-106)  (from Ch. 85, par. 6-106)
2    Sec. 6-106. (a) A Neither a local public entity, a service
3agency under contract with a public entity, and nor a public
4employee acting within the scope of his employment are not is
5liable for injury resulting from diagnosing or failing to
6diagnose that a person is afflicted with mental or physical
7illness or addiction or from failing to prescribe for mental or
8physical illness or addiction.
9    (b) A Neither a local public entity, a service agency under
10contract with a public entity, and nor a public employee acting
11within the scope of his employment are not is liable for
12administering with due care the treatment prescribed for mental
13or physical illness or addiction.
14    (c) Nothing in this section exonerates a public employee
15who has undertaken to prescribe for mental or physical illness
16or addiction from liability for injury proximately caused by
17his negligence or by his wrongful act in so prescribing or
18exonerates a local public entity whose employee, while acting
19in the scope of his employment, so causes such an injury.
20    (d) Nothing in this section exonerates a public employee
21from liability for injury proximately caused by his negligent
22or wrongful act or omission in administering any treatment
23prescribed for mental or physical illness or addiction or
24exonerates a local public entity or a service agency under
25contract with a public entity whose employee, while acting in
26the scope of his employment, so causes such an injury.

 

 

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1(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2983.)
 
2    (745 ILCS 10/6-107)  (from Ch. 85, par. 6-107)
3    Sec. 6-107. (a) A Neither a local public entity, a service
4agency under contract with a public entity, and nor a public
5employee acting within the scope of his employment are not is
6liable for any injury resulting from determining in accordance
7with any applicable enactment:
8        (1) Whether to confine a person for mental illness or
9    addiction.
10        (2) The terms and conditions of confinement for mental
11    illness or addiction in a medical facility operated or
12    maintained by a local public entity.
13        (3) Whether to parole or release a person from
14    confinement for mental illness or addiction in a medical
15    facility operated or maintained by a local public entity.
16    A public employee is not liable for carrying out a
17determination described in this subdivision (a).
18    (b) Nothing in this Section exonerates a public employee
19from liability for false arrest or false imprisonment.
20(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
 
21    (745 ILCS 10/6-108)  (from Ch. 85, par. 6-108)
22    Sec. 6-108. A Neither a local public entity, a service
23agency under contract with a public entity, and nor a public
24employee are not is liable for an injury caused by or to an

 

 

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1escaping or escaped mental patient.
2(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2983.)
 
3    (745 ILCS 10/6-109)  (from Ch. 85, par. 6-109)
4    Sec. 6-109. A Neither a local public entity, a service
5agency under contract with a public entity, and nor a public
6employee acting in the scope of his employment are not is
7liable for an injury resulting from the failure to admit a
8person to a medical facility operated or maintained by a local
9public entity.
10(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2983.)