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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB3453 Introduced 2/18/2025, by Rep. Lilian Jiménez SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Requires any hospital or health system licensed by the Act operating a general acute care hospital to, when considering closure or elimination of an inpatient psychiatric unit or a perinatal unit, provide public notice of the proposed closure or elimination no less than 120 days prior to the proposed date of closure and submit the notice to the specified authorities. Provides that, subject to the same notice requirements, a hospital or health system proposing closure must hold at least one public meeting within 60 days after notice is provided. Requires members of the county board in which the general acute care hospital resides to be invited to the meeting and given the opportunity to testify on the impact that elimination of service would have on the county and its other community health systems. |
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| | HB3453 | | LRB104 11871 BAB 21961 b |
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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, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by adding |
| 5 | | Section 10.12 as follows:
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| 6 | | (210 ILCS 85/10.12 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 10.12. Closure or discontinuation of special or |
| 8 | | supplemental services. |
| 9 | | (a) Any hospital or health system licensed by this Act |
| 10 | | operating a general acute care hospital must, when considering |
| 11 | | closure or elimination of an inpatient psychiatric unit or a |
| 12 | | perinatal unit, provide public notice of the proposed closure |
| 13 | | or elimination no less than 120 days prior to the proposed date |
| 14 | | of closure. |
| 15 | | (b) Notice required by this Section shall be submitted to |
| 16 | | the Department, the governing body of the municipality in |
| 17 | | which the hospital is located, the governing body of the |
| 18 | | county in which the hospital is located, and physically posted |
| 19 | | within the hospital in a place accessible to the general |
| 20 | | public. |
| 21 | | (c) The hospital or health system proposing closure must |
| 22 | | hold at least one noticed public meeting within 60 days after |
| 23 | | notice being given pursuant to subsection (b). Notice of the |