Illinois House Bill 2774 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on December 3 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. In provisions concerning Level II Trauma Center minimum standards, provides that the Department of Public Health shall grant a permanent waiver of the requirement that an emergency medicine physician working at a Level II Trauma Center be board-certified in emergency medicine if it determines that certain criteria are met, including: (1) the trauma center is located in a county that (i) has a population of less than 75,000 and (ii) is a physician shortage area designated by the Director of Public Health or a health professional shortage area designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services; (2) the trauma center demonstrates that it has tried, without success, to recruit a board-certified emergency medicine physician; and (3) the physician for whom the waiver is sought has at least 5 years of experience working as an emergency medicine physician in a trauma center setting and his or her education, training, and experience are equal to that of a physician who is board-certified in emergency medicine. Provides that the Department's authority to grant a waiver expires 5 years after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately.

EMS-TRAUMA CENTER-PHYSICIANS

Rep. Donald Moffitt [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-12-03	House	Session Sine Die
2013-04-19	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2013-04-18	House	Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
2013-04-18	House	Second Reading - Short Debate
2013-03-21	House	Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
2013-03-21	House	Do Pass / Short Debate Health Care Licenses Committee; 010-000-000
2013-03-04	House	Assigned to Health Care Licenses Committee
2013-02-21	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2013-02-21	House	First Reading
2013-02-21	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Donald L. Moffitt

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
210	50	3.100	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2774&GAID=12&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=85&GA=98
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/98/HB/09800HB2774.htm