Sen. Andy Manar
Filed: 3/12/2013
 
 

 

 

 
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1
AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1292




2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1292 by replacing 
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
4    "Section 5. The Nursing Home Care Act is amended  by 
5changing Section 3-304.1 and by adding Section 3-518 as 
6follows:
 
7    (210 ILCS 45/3-304.1)
8    Sec. 3-304.1. Public computer access to information. 
9    (a) The Department must make information regarding nursing 
10homes in the
State
available to the public in electronic form 
11on the World Wide Web, including all
of the
following 
12information:
13        (1) who regulates nursing homes;
14        (2) information in the possession of the Department 
15    that is listed in
Sections 3-210 and 3-304;
16        (3) deficiencies and plans of correction;
 
 
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1        (4) enforcement remedies;
2        (5) penalty letters;
3        (6) designation of penalty monies;
4        (7) the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' 
5    Health Care
Financing Administration special projects or 
6    federally required inspections;
7        (8) advisory standards;
8        (9) deficiency-free surveys;
9        (10) enforcement actions and enforcement summaries; 
10    and
11        (11) distressed facilities; and . 
12        (12) the report submitted under Section 3-518. 
13    (b) No fee or other charge may be imposed by the Department 
14as a condition
of accessing the information.
15    (c) The electronic public access provided through the World 
16Wide Web shall
be
in addition to any other electronic or print 
17distribution of the information.
18    (d) The information shall be made available as provided in 
19this Section in
the
shortest practicable time after it is 
20publicly available in any other form.
21(Source: P.A. 96-1372, eff. 7-29-10.)
 
22    (210 ILCS 45/3-518 new)
23    Sec. 3-518. Fines. Beginning January 15, 2014, and each 
24January 15 thereafter, the Department shall submit to the 
25General Assembly, the Department's Long-Term Care Facility 
 
 
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1Advisory Board, and the State Ombudsman an accounting of all 
2federal and State fines received by the Department in the 
3preceding fiscal year by the fund in which they have been 
4deposited.  For each fund, the report shall show the source of 
5all moneys that are deposited into each fund and the purpose 
6and amount of all expenditures from each fund.
 

7    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
8becoming law.".