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Public Act 91-0861

SB1329 Enrolled                               LRB9109590NTksB

    AN ACT concerning higher education.

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

    Section  5.  The University of Illinois Act is amended by
adding Section 20 as follows:

    (110 ILCS 305/20 new)
    Sec. 20.  Medical school research  experiments;  informed
consent.   If  a  person  is to participate as a subject in a
research experiment conducted at the College of Medicine  but
does  not  understand the English language, then the informed
consent document for the research experiment must be  written
in  a language that the person does understand. If the person
cannot read or has difficulty reading, the document  must  be
read to the person in that same language.

    Section  10.  The Southern Illinois University Management
Act is amended by adding Section 10 as follows:

    (110 ILCS 520/10 new)
    Sec. 10.  Medical school research  experiments;  informed
consent.   If  a  person  is to participate as a subject in a
research experiment conducted at the School of  Medicine  but
does  not  understand the English language, then the informed
consent document for the research experiment must be  written
in a language that the person does understand.  If the person
cannot  read  or has difficulty reading, the document must be
read to the person in that same language.

    Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
becoming law.

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