Bill Status of HB 4598   94th General Assembly

Short Description:  HLTH FACILITY-LANGUAGE ASSIST

House Sponsors
Rep. William Delgado

Committee Hearing
Human Services Committee Hearing Feb 8 2006 8:00AM Stratton Building Room D-1 Springfield, IL

Last Action  View All Actions

DateChamber Action
  2/7/2006HouseTabled By Sponsor Rep. William Delgado

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance
210 ILCS 87/15

Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Language Assistance Services Act. Provides that a hospital or nursing home (i) must adopt and review annually a policy for providing language assistance services to patients with language or communication barriers and (ii) must provide its nonbilingual staff with standardized picture and phrase sheets for use in routine communications with patients who have language or communication barriers (instead of having those 2 activities as options). Provides that a hospital or nursing home must also do at least one of the remaining 7 specified activities (instead of providing that a hospital or nursing home must do one or more of 9 specified activities). Effective immediately.

Actions 
DateChamber Action
  1/11/2006HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. William Delgado
  1/11/2006HouseFirst Reading
  1/11/2006HouseReferred to Rules Committee
  1/18/2006HouseAssigned to Human Services Committee
  2/7/2006HouseTabled By Sponsor Rep. William Delgado

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