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Public Act 097-0550
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| HB0299 Enrolled | LRB097 05527 RPM 45588 b |
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AN ACT concerning public health.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The HIV/AIDS Registry Act is amended by changing |
Section 4 as follows:
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(410 ILCS 310/4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7354)
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Sec. 4. (a) The Department shall establish and maintain an |
HIV/AIDS
Registry consisting of a record of all cases of HIV |
and
AIDS which
occur in Illinois, and such information |
concerning those cases as it deems
necessary or appropriate in |
order to conduct thorough and complete
epidemiological surveys |
of HIV and AIDS in
Illinois, and to evaluate existing control |
and prevention measures. Notwithstanding any other provision |
of this subsection (a), the information concerning those cases |
included in the Registry shall include all CD4 test results, |
including counts and percentages of any value, and HIV viral |
load test results, both detectable and undetectable; provided, |
however, that hospitals and laboratories may only be required |
to report such test results for tests performed on or after 90 |
days after the date that the Department furnishes an electronic |
method for the reporting of such results to the Department and |
only if a hospital or laboratory has an electronic health |
record that enables the hospital or laboratory to identify HIV |
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patients. Until electronic laboratory reporting is |
established, hospitals and laboratories shall continue to |
report cases of HIV and AIDS in Illinois in accordance with the |
administrative rules adopted by the Department that are in |
effect on May 1, 2011. Cases
included in the Registry shall be |
identified by a code rather than by name.
To the extent |
feasible, the Registry shall be compatible with other
national |
models so as to facilitate the coordination of information with |
other
data bases.
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(b) To facilitate the collection of information relating to |
cases of HIV and
AIDS, the Department shall have the authority |
to
require hospitals, laboratories and other facilities which |
diagnose
such conditions to report cases of HIV and AIDS to the |
Department or a local health authority if the local health |
authority serves a population of over 1,000,000 citizens or if |
the local health authority has been designated by the |
Department to collect such information,
and to require the |
submission of such other information pertaining to or in
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connection with such reported cases as the Department deems |
necessary or
appropriate for the purposes of this Act, |
including all CD4 and HIV viral load test results for those |
cases included in the Registry. The Department may promulgate
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rules or regulations specifying the types of information |
required,
requirements for follow up of patients, frequency of |
reporting, methods of
submitting such information and any other |
details deemed by the Department
to be necessary or appropriate |