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Rep. Rich Brauer
Filed: 2/22/2006
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5245
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5245 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Department of Public Health Powers and |
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| Duties Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is |
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| amended by adding Section 2310-342 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 2310/2310-342 new) |
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| Sec. 2310-342. Umbilical cord blood donations. Subject to |
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| appropriations for that purpose, the Department of Public |
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| Health shall, by January 1, 2007, prepare and distribute to |
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| health and maternal care providers written publications that |
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| include the following information: |
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| (1) The medical processes involved in the collection of |
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| umbilical cord blood. |
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| (2) The medical risks to a mother and her newborn child |
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| of umbilical cord blood collection. |
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| (3) The current and potential future medical uses and |
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| benefits of umbilical cord blood collection to a mother, |
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| her newborn child, and her biological family. |
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| (4) The current and potential future medical uses and |
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| benefits of umbilical cord blood collection to persons who |
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| are not biologically related to a mother or her newborn |
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| child. |
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| (5) Any costs that may be incurred by a pregnant woman |
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| who chooses to make an umbilical cord blood donation. |
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| (6) Options for ownership and future use of the donated |
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| material. |
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| (7) The availability in Illinois of umbilical cord |
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| blood donations.
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| Section 10. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by |
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| changing Section 6.21 as follows:
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| (210 ILCS 85/6.21)
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| Sec. 6.21. Umbilical cord blood donation.
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| (a) All licensed hospitals shall offer a pregnant patient |
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| the option to
donate, to a publicly accessible certified cord |
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| blood bank, blood extracted
from the umbilical cord following |
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| the delivery of a newborn child if the
donation can be made at |
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| no expense to the patient or
hospital for collection or |
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| storage.
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| (b) Nothing in this Section obligates a hospital to collect |
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| umbilical cord
blood if, in the professional judgment of a |
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| physician licensed to practice
medicine in all its branches or |
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| a nurse, the collection would threaten the
health of the mother |
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| or child.
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| (c) Nothing in this Section imposes a requirement upon any |
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| hospital
employee, physician, nurse, or hospital that is |
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| directly affiliated with a bona
fide religious denomination |
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| that includes as an integral part of its beliefs
and practices |
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| the tenet that blood transfer is contrary to the moral
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| principles
the
denomination considers to be an essential part |
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| of its beliefs.
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| (d) Subject to appropriations for that purpose, the |
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| Department of Public Health shall make the maximization of |
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| umbilical cord blood donations a public health goal. All |
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| licensed hospitals and birthing centers shall cooperate with |
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| the Department of Public Health in implementing this goal of |