Full Text of HB0208 96th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning public health.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | 5 |
| Community Health Center Construction Act. | 6 |
| Section 5. Definitions. In this Act:
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| "Board" means the Illinois Capital Development Board. | 8 |
| "Community health center site" means a new physical site | 9 |
| where a community
health center will provide primary health | 10 |
| care services either to a medically
underserved population or | 11 |
| area or to the uninsured population of this State.
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| "Community provider" means a Federally Qualified Health | 13 |
| Center (FQHC) or
FQHC Look-Alike (Community Health Center or | 14 |
| health center), designated as such
by the Secretary of the | 15 |
| United States Department of Health and Human Services,
that | 16 |
| operates at least one federally designated primary health care | 17 |
| delivery
site in the State of Illinois.
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| "Department" means the Illinois Department of Public | 19 |
| Health.
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| "Medically underserved area" means an urban or rural area | 21 |
| designated by the
Secretary of the United States Department of | 22 |
| Health and Human Services as an
area with a shortage of | 23 |
| personal health services.
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| "Medically underserved population" means (i) the | 2 |
| population of an urban or
rural area designated by the | 3 |
| Secretary of the United States Department of
Health and Human | 4 |
| Services as
an area with a shortage of personal health services | 5 |
| or (ii) a population group
designated by the Secretary as | 6 |
| having a shortage of those services.
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| "Primary health care services" means the following:
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| (1) Basic health services consisting of the following:
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| (A) Health services related to family medicine, | 10 |
| internal medicine,
pediatrics, obstetrics, or | 11 |
| gynecology that are furnished by physicians and,
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| appropriate, physician assistants, nurse | 13 |
| practitioners, and nurse
midwives.
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| (B) Diagnostic laboratory and radiologic services.
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| (C) Preventive health services, including the | 16 |
| following:
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| (i) Prenatal and perinatal services.
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| (ii) Screenings for breast, ovarian, and | 19 |
| cervical cancer.
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| (iii) Well-child services.
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| (iv) Immunizations against vaccine-preventable | 22 |
| diseases.
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| (v) Screenings for elevated blood lead levels,
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| communicable diseases, and cholesterol.
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| (vi) Pediatric eye, ear, and dental screenings | 26 |
| to determine
the need for vision and hearing |
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| correction and dental care.
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| (vii) Voluntary family planning services.
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| (viii) Preventive dental services.
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| (D) Emergency medical services.
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| (E) Pharmaceutical services as appropriate for | 6 |
| particular health
centers.
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| (2) Referrals to providers of medical services and | 8 |
| other health-related
services (including substance abuse | 9 |
| and mental health services).
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| (3) Patient case management services (including | 11 |
| counseling, referral, and
follow-up services) and other | 12 |
| services designed to assist health center
patients in | 13 |
| establishing eligibility for and gaining access to | 14 |
| federal, State,
and local programs that provide or | 15 |
| financially support the provision of
medical, social, | 16 |
| educational, or other related services.
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| (4) Services that enable individuals to use the | 18 |
| services of the health
center (including outreach and | 19 |
| transportation services and, if a substantial
number of the | 20 |
| individuals in the population are of limited | 21 |
| English-speaking
ability, the services
of appropriate | 22 |
| personnel fluent in the language spoken by a predominant | 23 |
| number
of those individuals).
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| (5) Education of patients and the general population | 25 |
| served by the health
center regarding the availability and | 26 |
| proper use of health services.
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| (6) Additional health services consisting of services | 2 |
| that are appropriate
to meet the health needs of the | 3 |
| population served by the health center involved
and that | 4 |
| may include the following:
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| (A) Environmental health services, including the | 6 |
| following:
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| (i) Detection and alleviation of unhealthful | 8 |
| conditions
associated with water supply.
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| (ii) Sewage treatment.
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| (iii) Solid waste disposal.
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| (iv) Detection and alleviation of rodent and | 12 |
| parasite
infestation.
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| (v) Field sanitation.
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| (vi) Housing.
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| (vii) Other environmental factors related to | 16 |
| health.
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| (B) Special occupation-related health services for | 18 |
| migratory and
seasonal agricultural workers, including | 19 |
| the following:
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| (i) Screening for and control of infectious | 21 |
| diseases,
including parasitic diseases.
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| (ii) Injury prevention programs, which may | 23 |
| include
prevention of exposure to unsafe levels of | 24 |
| agricultural chemicals,
including pesticides.
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| "Uninsured population" means persons who do not own private | 26 |
| health care
insurance, are not part of a group insurance plan, |
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| and are not eligible for any
State or federal | 2 |
| government-sponsored health care program.
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| Section 10. Operation of the grant program.
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| (a) The Board, in consultation with the Department, shall | 5 |
| establish the Community Health Center Construction Grant | 6 |
| Program and may make grants to eligible community providers | 7 |
| subject to appropriations out of funds reserved for capital | 8 |
| improvements or expenditures as provided for in this Act. The | 9 |
| Program shall operate in a manner so that the estimated cost of | 10 |
| the Program during the fiscal year will not exceed the total | 11 |
| appropriation for the Program. The grants shall be for the | 12 |
| purpose of constructing or renovating new community health | 13 |
| center sites, renovating existing community health center | 14 |
| sites, and purchasing equipment to provide primary health care | 15 |
| services to medically underserved populations or areas as | 16 |
| defined in Section 5 of this Act or providing primary health | 17 |
| care services to the uninsured population of Illinois.
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| (b) A recipient of a grant to establish a new community | 19 |
| health center site must add each such site to the recipient's | 20 |
| established service area for the purpose of extending federal | 21 |
| FQHC or FQHC Look Alike status to the new site in accordance | 22 |
| with federal regulations.
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| Section 15. Eligibility for grant. To be eligible for a | 24 |
| grant under this Act,
a recipient must be a community provider |
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| as defined in Section 5 of this Act.
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| Section 20. Use of grant moneys. A recipient of a grant | 3 |
| under this Act may
use the grant moneys to do any one or more of | 4 |
| the following:
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| (1) Purchase equipment.
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| (2) Acquire a new physical location for the purpose of | 7 |
| delivering primary
health care services.
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| (3) Construct or renovate new or existing community | 9 |
| health center sites.
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| Section 25. Reporting. Within 60 days after the first year | 11 |
| of a grant under this Act, the grant recipient must submit a | 12 |
| progress report to the Department. The Department may assist | 13 |
| each grant recipient in meeting the goals and objectives stated | 14 |
| in the original grant proposal submitted by the recipient, that | 15 |
| grant moneys are being used for appropriate purposes, and that | 16 |
| residents of the community are being served by the new | 17 |
| community health center sites established with grant moneys.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 19 |
| becoming law. |
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