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<title>Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for SB 2491   </title>
<shortdesc>DHS-IDPH-NURSE AID REGISTRY</shortdesc>
<sponsor>
<sponsorhead1>Senate Sponsors</sponsorhead1><sponsors>Sen. Susan Garrett-Jacqueline Y. Collins</sponsors>
<sponsorhead2>House Sponsors</sponsorhead2><altsponsors>(Rep. Julie Hamos and Patricia R. Bellock)</altsponsors>
</sponsor>
<lastaction>
<statusdate>6/26/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Public Act . . . . . . . . . 94-0934</action>
</lastaction>
<synopsis>
<synopsistitle></synopsistitle>
<reference>20 ILCS 1705/7.3</reference><aliasreference></aliasreference><reference>210 ILCS 30/6.2</reference><aliasreference>from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4166.2</aliasreference><SynopsisText>Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that any owner or operator of a community agency who is identified by the nurse aide registry as having been the subject of a substantiated finding of abuse or neglect of a service recipient is prohibited from any involvement in any capacity with the provision of Department funded mental health or developmental disability services. Amends the Abused and Neglected Long Term Care Facility Residents Reporting Act. Provides that an individual who is a member of a collective bargaining unit shall not be reported to the Department of Public Health's nurse aide registry as an individual against whom there has been a substantiated finding of physical or sexual abuse or egregious neglect of a service recipient until the exhaustion of that individual's grievance and arbitration rights, or until 3 months after the initiation of the grievance process, whichever occurs first, provided that the Department of Human Services' hearing under these provisions regarding the reporting of an individual to the Department of Public Health's nurse aide registry (instead of the Department's hearing under provisions concerning investigations by the Inspector General, which is separate and distinct from the Office of the Inspector General's appeals process) has concluded. Effective immediately.</SynopsisText></synopsis>
<actions>
<statusdate>1/18/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Filed with Secretary by Sen. Susan Garrett</action>
<statusdate>1/18/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>First Reading</action>
<statusdate>1/18/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Referred to Rules</action>
<statusdate>1/19/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Assigned to Health &amp; Human Services</action>
<statusdate>2/1/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Do Pass Health &amp; Human Services;  010-000-000</action>
<statusdate>2/1/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading February 2, 2006</action>
<statusdate>2/2/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Second Reading</action>
<statusdate>2/2/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading February 7, 2006</action>
<statusdate>2/16/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins</action>
<statusdate>2/16/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Third Reading - Passed; 055-000-000</action>
<statusdate>2/16/2006</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Arrived in House</action>
<statusdate>2/16/2006</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading</action>
<statusdate>2/23/2006</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Chief House Sponsor Rep. Julie Hamos</action>
<statusdate>2/23/2006</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>First Reading</action>
<statusdate>2/23/2006</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Referred to Rules Committee</action>
<statusdate>3/8/2006</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Assigned to Developmental Disabilities and Mental Illness Committee</action>
<statusdate>3/16/2006</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Do Pass / Short Debate Developmental Disabilities and Mental Illness Committee;  007-000-000</action>
<statusdate>3/16/2006</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate</action>
<statusdate>3/16/2006</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Patricia R. Bellock</action>
<statusdate>3/24/2006</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Second Reading - Short Debate</action>
<statusdate>3/24/2006</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate</action>
<statusdate>3/29/2006</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 114-000-000</action>
<statusdate>3/29/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Passed Both Houses</action>
<statusdate>4/27/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Sent to the Governor</action>
<statusdate>6/26/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Governor Approved</action>
<statusdate>6/26/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Effective Date June 26, 2006</action>
<statusdate>6/26/2006</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Public Act . . . . . . . . . 94-0934</action>
</actions>
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