Bill Text: IL SB0025 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Creates the Reproductive Health Act. Provides that every individual has a fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about one's own reproductive health. Provides that every individual who becomes pregnant has a fundamental right to continue the pregnancy and give birth or to have an abortion, and to make autonomous decisions about how to exercise that right. Provides that a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under the law, of this State. Provides prohibited State actions. Provides that a party aggrieved by a violation of the Act may bring a civil lawsuit. Provides that a health care professional shall report each abortion performed to the Department of Public Health. Limits home rule powers. Repeals provisions regarding abortion in the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act, the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment Act, and the Injunction Article of the Code of Civil Procedure. Repeals the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975, the Partial-birth Abortion Ban Act, and the Abortion Performance Refusal Act. Makes corresponding changes in the Children and Family Services Act, the Counties Code, the Medical Practice Act of 1987, the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987, the Vital Records Act, the Criminal Code of 2012, the Health Care Right of Conscience Act, and the Rights of Married Persons Act. Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that information and records held by the Department collected under the Reproductive Health Act is exempt from inspection and copying. Amends the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act. Provides that that term "ambulatory surgical treatment center" does not include any facility in which the performance of abortion procedures is limited to those performed without general, epidural, or spinal anesthesia. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides insurance requirements for the coverage of abortion. Makes corresponding changes in the State Employees Group Insurance Act, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, and the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act. Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Provides that operative surgery does not include abortions performed without general, epidural, or spinal anesthesia, and other gynecological procedures related to abortions. Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that tissue and products from an abortion or miscarriage may be buried, entombed, or cremated. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 52-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-13 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Don Harmon [SB0025 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SB0025-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Creates the Reproductive Health Act. Provides that every individual has a fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about one's own reproductive health. Provides that every individual who becomes pregnant has a fundamental right to continue the pregnancy and give birth or to have an abortion, and to make autonomous decisions about how to exercise that right. Provides that a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under the law, of this State. Provides prohibited State actions. Provides that a party aggrieved by a violation of the Act may bring a civil lawsuit. Provides that a health care professional shall report each abortion performed to the Department of Public Health. Limits home rule powers. Repeals provisions regarding abortion in the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act, the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment Act, and the Injunction Article of the Code of Civil Procedure. Repeals the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975, the Partial-birth Abortion Ban Act, and the Abortion Performance Refusal Act. Makes corresponding changes in the Children and Family Services Act, the Counties Code, the Medical Practice Act of 1987, the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987, the Vital Records Act, the Criminal Code of 2012, the Health Care Right of Conscience Act, and the Rights of Married Persons Act. Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that information and records held by the Department collected under the Reproductive Health Act is exempt from inspection and copying. Amends the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act. Provides that that term "ambulatory surgical treatment center" does not include any facility in which the performance of abortion procedures is limited to those performed without general, epidural, or spinal anesthesia. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides insurance requirements for the coverage of abortion. Makes corresponding changes in the State Employees Group Insurance Act, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, and the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act. Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Provides that operative surgery does not include abortions performed without general, epidural, or spinal anesthesia, and other gynecological procedures related to abortions. Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that tissue and products from an abortion or miscarriage may be buried, entombed, or cremated. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 52-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-13 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Don Harmon [SB0025 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SB0025-Engrossed.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning health.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental | ||||||
| 5 | Disabilities Code is amended by changing Section 3-610 as | ||||||
| 6 | follows:
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| 7 | (405 ILCS 5/3-610) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 3-610)
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| 8 | Sec. 3-610.
As soon as possible but not later than 24 | ||||||
| 9 | hours, excluding
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, after | ||||||
| 10 | admission of a respondent pursuant
to this Article, the | ||||||
| 11 | respondent shall be personally examined by a psychiatrist. The
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| 12 | psychiatrist may be a member of the staff of the facility but | ||||||
| 13 | shall not
be the person who executed the first certificate. If | ||||||
| 14 | a certificate has already been completed by a psychiatrist | ||||||
| 15 | following the respondent's admission, the respondent shall be | ||||||
| 16 | examined by another psychiatrist or by a physician, clinical | ||||||
| 17 | psychologist, or qualified examiner. If, as a result of this | ||||||
| 18 | second examination, a certificate is executed, the certificate | ||||||
| 19 | shall be promptly filed with the court. If the certificate | ||||||
| 20 | states that the respondent is subject to involuntary admission | ||||||
| 21 | but not in need of immediate hospitalization, the respondent | ||||||
| 22 | may remain in his or her place of residence pending a hearing | ||||||
| 23 | on the petition unless he or she voluntarily agrees to | ||||||
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| 1 | inpatient treatment. If the respondent is
not examined or if | ||||||
| 2 | the psychiatrist, physician, clinical psychologist, or | ||||||
| 3 | qualified examiner does not execute a certificate pursuant
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| 4 | Section 3-602, the respondent shall be released forthwith. For | ||||||
| 5 | the purpose of this Section, a personal examination includes an | ||||||
| 6 | examination performed in real time (synchronous examination) | ||||||
| 7 | via an Interactive Telecommunication System as defined in 89 | ||||||
| 8 | Ill. Adm. Code 140.403(a)(5). An examination via an Interactive | ||||||
| 9 | Telecommunication System may only be used for certification | ||||||
| 10 | under this Section when a psychiatrist is not on-site within | ||||||
| 11 | the time period set forth in this Section. If the examination | ||||||
| 12 | is performed via an Interactive Communication System, that fact | ||||||
| 13 | shall be noted on the certificate.
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| 14 | (Source: P.A. 96-1399, eff. 7-29-10; 96-1453, eff. 8-20-10.)
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