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SB0119 - 104th General Assembly
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning health. | ||||||
| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly: | ||||||
| 4 | Section 5. The Prenatal Syphilis Act is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Sections 1 and 2 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (410 ILCS 320/1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4801) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 1. Every appropriate health care professional | ||||||
| 8 | physician, or other person, attending in a professional | ||||||
| 9 | capacity a pregnant woman in Illinois, shall test every | ||||||
| 10 | pregnant person take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of | ||||||
| 11 | such woman at the time of the first examination, and a second | ||||||
| 12 | time sample of blood shall be taken or caused to be taken | ||||||
| 13 | during the third trimester of pregnancy, between 27 through 32 | ||||||
| 14 | weeks of gestation. The These blood specimens collected shall | ||||||
| 15 | be submitted to a laboratory approved by the Department of | ||||||
| 16 | Public Health for a serological test for syphilis approved by | ||||||
| 17 | the State Department of Public Health. In the event that a any | ||||||
| 18 | such blood test shall show a positive or doubtful result an | ||||||
| 19 | additional test or tests shall be made. The Such serological | ||||||
| 20 | test or tests shall, upon request of any provider physician, | ||||||
| 21 | be made free of charge by the State Department of Public Health | ||||||
| 22 | or the Health Departments of cities, villages, and | ||||||
| 23 | incorporated towns maintaining laboratories for the testing of | ||||||
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| 1 | blood specimens of any woman who resides in that city, | ||||||
| 2 | village, or incorporated town. | ||||||
| 3 | The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any | ||||||
| 4 | woman who objects to such serological tests on the grounds | ||||||
| 5 | that such tests are contrary to her religious beliefs and | ||||||
| 6 | practices. | ||||||
| 7 | (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.) | ||||||
| 8 | (410 ILCS 320/2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4802) | ||||||
| 9 | Sec. 2. In reporting every birth or still birth, | ||||||
| 10 | appropriate health care professionals physicians and others | ||||||
| 11 | required to make such reports shall state on the birth | ||||||
| 12 | certificate or still birth certificate, as the case may be, | ||||||
| 13 | whether a blood test for syphilis has been made upon a specimen | ||||||
| 14 | of blood taken from the woman who bore the child for which a | ||||||
| 15 | birth or still birth certificate is filed, together with the | ||||||
| 16 | date when the blood specimen was taken and the name of the | ||||||
| 17 | laboratory making the test. In no event shall the birth or | ||||||
| 18 | still birth certificate state the result of the test. | ||||||
| 19 | (Source: Laws 1939, p. 708.) | ||||||