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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, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Prenatal Syphilis Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Sections 1 and 2 as follows:
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| 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.)
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| 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.) |
