Full Text of HB5412 98th General Assembly
HB5412sam001 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. David Koehler Filed: 5/9/2014
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5412
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5412 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | 5 | | Community Health Worker Advisory Board Act. | 6 | | Section 5. Definitions. In this Act: | 7 | | "Board" means the Community Health Worker Advisory Board.
| 8 | | "Community health worker" means a frontline public health | 9 | | worker who is a trusted member or has an unusually close | 10 | | understanding of the community served. This trusting | 11 | | relationship enables the community health worker to serve as a | 12 | | liaison, link, and intermediary between health and social | 13 | | services and the community to facilitate access to services and | 14 | | improve the quality and cultural competence of service | 15 | | delivery. A community health worker also builds individual and | 16 | | community capacity by increasing health knowledge and |
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| 1 | | self-sufficiency through a range of activities, including | 2 | | outreach, community education, informal counseling, social | 3 | | support, and advocacy. Nothing in this definition shall be | 4 | | construed to authorize a community health worker to provide | 5 | | direct care or treatment to any person or to perform any act or | 6 | | service for which a license issued by a professional licensing | 7 | | board is required. | 8 | | "Department" means the Department of Public Health. | 9 | | Section 10. Advisory Board. | 10 | | (a) There is created the Advisory Board on Community Health | 11 | | Workers. The Board shall consist of 15 members appointed by the | 12 | | Director of Public Health. The Director shall make the | 13 | | appointments to the Board within 90 days after the effective | 14 | | date of this Act. The members of the Board shall represent | 15 | | different racial and ethnic backgrounds and have the | 16 | | qualifications as follows: | 17 | | (1) four members who currently serve as community | 18 | | health worker in Cook County, one of whom shall have served | 19 | | as a health insurance marketplace navigator; | 20 | | (2) two members who currently serves as a community | 21 | | health worker in DuPage, Kane, Lake, or Will County; | 22 | | (3) one member who currently serves a community health | 23 | | worker in Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Jersey, Macoupin, | 24 | | Madison, Monroe, Montgomery, Randolph, St. Clair, or | 25 | | Washington County; |
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| 1 | | (4) one member who currently serves as a community | 2 | | health worker in any other county in the State; | 3 | | (5) one member who is a physician licensed to practice | 4 | | medicine in Illinois; | 5 | | (6) one member who is a licensed nurse or advanced | 6 | | practice nurse; | 7 | | (7) one member who is a licensed social worker, | 8 | | counselor, or psychologist; | 9 | | (8) one member who currently employs community health | 10 | | workers; | 11 | | (9) one member who is a health policy advisor with | 12 | | experience in health workforce policy; | 13 | | (10) one member who is a public health professional | 14 | | with experience with community health policy; and | 15 | | (11) one representative of a community college, | 16 | | university, or educational institution that provides | 17 | | training to community health workers. | 18 | | (b) In addition, the following persons or their designees | 19 | | shall serve as ex officio, non-voting members of the Board: the | 20 | | Executive Director of the Illinois Community College Board, the | 21 | | Director of Children and Family Services, the Director of | 22 | | Aging, the Director of Public Health, the Director of | 23 | | Employment Security, the Director of Commerce and Economic | 24 | | Opportunity, the Secretary of Financial and Professional | 25 | | Regulation, the Director of Healthcare and Family Services, and | 26 | | the Secretary of Human Services. |
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| 1 | | (c) The voting members of the Board shall select a | 2 | | chairperson from the voting members of the Board. The Board | 3 | | shall consult with additional experts as needed. Members of the | 4 | | Board shall serve without compensation. The Department shall | 5 | | provide administrative and staff support to the Board. The | 6 | | meetings of the Board are subject to the provisions of the Open | 7 | | Meetings Act. | 8 | | (d) The Board shall consider the core competencies of a | 9 | | community health worker, including skills and areas of | 10 | | knowledge that are essential to bringing about expanded health | 11 | | and wellness in diverse communities and reducing health | 12 | | disparities. As relating to members of communities and health | 13 | | teams, the core competencies for effective community health | 14 | | workers may include, but are not limited to: | 15 | | (1) outreach methods and strategies; | 16 | | (2) client and community assessment; | 17 | | (3) effective community-based and participatory | 18 | | methods, including research; | 19 | | (4) culturally competent communication and care; | 20 | | (5) health education for behavior change; | 21 | | (6) support, advocacy, and health system navigation | 22 | | for clients; | 23 | | (7) application of public health concepts and | 24 | | approaches; | 25 | | (8) individual and community capacity building and | 26 | | mobilization; and |
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| 1 | | (9) writing, oral, technical, and communication | 2 | | skills. | 3 | | Section 15. Report. | 4 | | (a) The Board shall develop a report with its | 5 | | recommendations regarding the certification process of | 6 | | community health workers. The report shall be completed no | 7 | | later than 12 months after the first meeting of the Board. The | 8 | | report shall be submitted to all members and ex officio members | 9 | | of the Board, the Governor, the President of the Senate, the | 10 | | Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of | 11 | | Representatives, and the Minority Leader of the House of | 12 | | Representatives. The Department shall publish the report on its | 13 | | Internet website.
| 14 | | (b) The report shall at a minimum include the following:
| 15 | | (1) a summary of research regarding the best practices, | 16 | | curriculum, and training programs for designing a | 17 | | certification program in this State for community health | 18 | | workers, including a consideration of a multi-tiered | 19 | | education or training system, statewide certification, | 20 | | non-certification degree-based levels of certification, | 21 | | and the requirements for experience-based certification; | 22 | | (2) recommendations regarding certification and a | 23 | | renewal process for community health workers, and a system | 24 | | of approval and accreditation for curriculum and training; | 25 | | (3) recommendations for a proposed curriculum for |
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| 1 | | community health workers that ensures the content, | 2 | | methodology, development, and delivery of any proposed | 3 | | program is appropriately based on cultural, geographic, | 4 | | and other specialty needs and also reflects relevant | 5 | | responsibilities for community health workers; and
| 6 | | (4) recommendations for best practices for | 7 | | reimbursement options and pathways through which secure | 8 | | funding for community health workers may be obtained. | 9 | | (c) The Board shall advise the Department, the Governor, | 10 | | and the General Assembly on all matters that impact the | 11 | | effective work of community health workers.
| 12 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 13 | | becoming law.".
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