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| 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010SB0689
  Introduced 2/6/2009, by Sen. John J. Cullerton  SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 
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    Amends the Managed Care Reform and Patient Rights Act.
Makes a  technical change
in a Section concerning waiver of rights.
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|  |  | SB0689 |  | LRB096 06753 RPM 16837 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 Managed Care Reform and Patient Rights Act  | 
| 5 |  | is amended by changing Section 100 as follows:
 
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| 6 |  |     (215 ILCS 134/100)
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| 7 |  |     Sec. 100. Prohibition of waiver of rights. No health care  | 
| 8 |  | plan or
contract shall contain any provision, policy, or
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| 9 |  | procedure that
that limits, restricts, or waives any of the  | 
| 10 |  | rights set forth in this
Act.  Any such policy or procedure  | 
| 11 |  | shall be void and unenforceable. | 
| 12 |  | (Source: P.A. 91-617, eff. 1-1-00.)
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