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| 1 |  |     AN ACT concerning regulation.
  
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| 2 |  |     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 |  | represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
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| 4 |  |     Section 5. The State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971  | 
| 5 |  | is amended  by adding Section 6.12a as follows:
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| 6 |  |     (5 ILCS 375/6.12a new) | 
| 7 |  |     Sec. 6.12a. Vendor assistant program for dentists  | 
| 8 |  | providing services to State of Illinois employees. The  | 
| 9 |  | Department of Central Management Services may establish a  | 
| 10 |  | vendor payment program for dentists providing services to State  | 
| 11 |  | of Illinois employees under which qualified purchasers may  | 
| 12 |  | purchase from participating vendors certain qualified accounts  | 
| 13 |  | receivable owed by the State to the participating vendors. This  | 
| 14 |  | program shall be subject to any State offset of the purchase  | 
| 15 |  | price for which any qualified account receivable purchased  | 
| 16 |  | under the program equals 100% of the base invoice amount  | 
| 17 |  | associated with such account receivable, as determined by the  | 
| 18 |  | State Comptroller. The purchase price for a qualified account  | 
| 19 |  | receivable shall be determined by the Department of Central  | 
| 20 |  | Management Services. In consideration of the payment of the  | 
| 21 |  | purchase price, a participating dentist shall assign to the  | 
| 22 |  | qualified purchaser all of its rights to payment of such  | 
| 23 |  | qualified account receivable, including all current and future  |