HB5817 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB5817

Introduced , by Rep. Barbara Wheeler

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

720 ILCS 510/10.1

from Ch. 38, par. 81-30.1

Amends the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall compile data on deaths or complications resulting from abortions if more than 5 deaths or complications result from abortions in a county or in the State. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall annually publish that data by State and county and make the data available to the public. Excludes from the data made available to the public personal identifying data.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 is amended by changing Section 10.1 as follows:

(720 ILCS 510/10.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 81-30.1)

Sec. 10.1. Reporting by physicians to the Department of Public Health of complications and deaths resulting from an abortion.

(a) Any physician who diagnoses a woman as having complications resulting from an abortion or if the woman dies as the result of an abortion shall report, within a reasonable period of time, the diagnosis and a summary of her physical symptoms to the Illinois Department of Public Health in accordance with procedures and upon forms required by such Department. The Department of Public Health shall define the complications required to be reported by rule. The complications defined by rule shall be those which, according to contemporary medical standards, are manifested by symptoms with severity equal to or greater than hemorrhaging requiring transfusion, infection, incomplete abortion, or punctured organs. If the physician making the diagnosis of a complication knows the name or location of the facility where the abortion was performed, he shall report such information to the Department of Public Health.

(b) The Department of Public Health shall compile data on deaths or complications resulting from abortions if more than 5 deaths or complications result from abortions in a county or in this State. The Department of Public Health shall annually publish that data by State and county and make the data available to the public. The data available to the public shall not include:

(1) the names of the facilities that performed the abortions;

(2) patient identification numbers;

(3) any set of information the amount of which that is 50 or fewer from which the identity of the person or persons to whom it relates may be discerned;

(4) education of the persons who obtained the abortions; and

(5) race and ethnicities of the persons who obtained the abortions.

Any physician who intentionally violates this Section shall be subject to revocation of his license pursuant to paragraph (22) of Section 22 of the Medical Practice Act of 1987.

(Source: P.A. 85-1209.)