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Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie
Filed: 3/15/2013
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2812
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2812 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act is |
| 5 | | amended by adding Section 3.5 as follows:
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| 6 | | (20 ILCS 3960/3.5 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 3.5. Facilities maintained or operated by a State |
| 8 | | agency. |
| 9 | | (a) Except for the requirements set forth in subsection |
| 10 | | (b), any construction, modification, establishment, or change |
| 11 | | in categories of service of a health care facility funded |
| 12 | | through an appropriation from the General Assembly and |
| 13 | | maintained or operated by a State agency is exempt from the |
| 14 | | requirements of this Act. A State agency is not exempt from |
| 15 | | this Act when that State agency discontinues a health care |
| 16 | | facility or category of service. |
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| 1 | | (b) A State agency must notify the Board in writing of any |
| 2 | | appropriation by the General Assembly for the construction, |
| 3 | | modification, establishment or change in categories of |
| 4 | | service, excluding discontinuations of a health care facility |
| 5 | | or categories of service, maintained or operated by the State. |
| 6 | | The State agency must include with the written notification the |
| 7 | | following information: (i) the estimated service capacity of |
| 8 | | the health care facility, (ii) the location of the project or |
| 9 | | the intended location if not identified by law, and (iii) the |
| 10 | | date the health care facility is estimated to be opened. The |
| 11 | | State agency must also notify the Board in writing when the |
| 12 | | facility has been licensed by the Department of Public Health |
| 13 | | or any other licensing body. The State agency shall submit to |
| 14 | | the Board, on behalf of the health care facility, any annual |
| 15 | | facility questionnaires as defined in Section 13 of this Act or |
| 16 | | any requests for information by the Board. |
| 17 | | (c) This Section is repealed 5 years after the effective |
| 18 | | date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly.
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| 19 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 20 | | becoming law.".
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