Public Act 104-0071
 
SB0119 EnrolledLRB104 06117 RLC 16150 b

    AN ACT concerning health.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Prenatal Syphilis Act is amended by 
changing Sections 1 and 2 as follows:
 
    (410 ILCS 320/1)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4801)
    Sec. 1. Every appropriate health care professional 
physician, or other person, attending in a professional 
capacity a pregnant woman in Illinois, shall test every 
pregnant person take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of 
such woman at the time of the first examination, and a second 
time sample of blood shall be taken or caused to be taken 
during the third trimester of pregnancy, between 27 through 32 
weeks of gestation. The These blood specimens collected shall 
be submitted to a laboratory approved by the Department of 
Public Health for a serological test for syphilis approved by 
the State Department of Public Health. In the event that a any 
such blood test shall show a positive or doubtful result an 
additional test or tests shall be made. The Such serological 
test or tests shall, upon request of any provider physician, 
be made free of charge by the State Department of Public Health 
or the Health Departments of cities, villages, and 
incorporated towns maintaining laboratories for the testing of 
blood specimens of any woman who resides in that city, 
village, or incorporated town.
    The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any 
woman who objects to such serological tests on the grounds 
that such tests are contrary to her religious beliefs and 
practices.
(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
 
    (410 ILCS 320/2)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4802)
    Sec. 2. In reporting every birth or still birth, 
appropriate health care professionals physicians and others 
required to make such reports shall state on the birth 
certificate or still birth certificate, as the case may be, 
whether a blood test for syphilis has been made upon a specimen 
of blood taken from the woman who bore the child for which a 
birth or still birth certificate is filed, together with the 
date when the blood specimen was taken and the name of the 
laboratory making the test. In no event shall the birth or 
still birth certificate state the result of the test.
(Source: Laws 1939, p. 708.)