HB2800 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB2800

Introduced , by Rep. Mary E. Flowers

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

410 ILCS 335/5
410 ILCS 335/10
410 ILCS 335/15
410 ILCS 335/30
410 ILCS 335/35

Amends the Perinatal HIV Prevention Act. Provides that every health care professional who provides health care services to a pregnant person, unless a pregnant person already has a documented negative HIV status (currently, already been tested) during the third trimester of the current pregnancy (currently, during the current pregnancy) or is already documented to be HIV-positive, shall provide specified HIV counseling and shall test the person for HIV on an opt-out basis (currently, unless she refuses). Adds provisions concerning when opt-out HIV testing and rapid opt-out HIV testing shall occur. Makes changes to provisions concerning specified HIV counseling requirements. Makes changes to provisions concerning reporting, including requiring that a specified report concerning a HIV-positive pregnant or post-partum person or HIV-exposed newborn shall be made by a health care facility to the Department of Public Health's Perinatal HIV Hotline within 12 hours but not later than 24 hours of test results (currently, a health facility shall report within 24 hours after birth if a woman is HIV-positive and the newborn is HIV-exposed). Provides that the provisions of the Act requiring testing for HIV (currently, provisions of the Act) shall not apply when a parent or guardian objects to HIV testing on certain grounds. Defines "birthing center", "opt-out testing", and "third trimester". Changes references from "pregnant woman" to "pregnant person" and makes other similar changes. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

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A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning health.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Perinatal HIV Prevention Act is amended by changing Sections 5, 10, 15, 30, and 35 as follows:

(410 ILCS 335/5)

Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act:

"Birthing center" means a designated site that is away from the pregnant person's usual place of residence in which births are planned to occur following a normal, uncomplicated, and low-risk pregnancy.

"Department" means the Department of Public Health.

"Health care professional" means a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, a licensed physician assistant, or a licensed advanced practice nurse.

"Health care facility" or "facility" means any hospital, birthing center, or other institution that is licensed or otherwise authorized to deliver health care services.

"Health care services" means any prenatal medical care, emergency care, or labor or delivery services to a pregnant person or a woman and her newborn infant, including hospitalization.

"Opt-out testing" means an approach in which an HIV test is offered to the patient, such that the patient is notified that HIV testing may occur unless the patient opts out by declining the test.

"Third trimester" means the 27th week of pregnancy through delivery.

(Source: P.A. 99-173, eff. 7-29-15.)

(410 ILCS 335/10)

Sec. 10. HIV counseling and offer of HIV testing required.

(a) Every health care professional who provides health care services to a pregnant person, including persons identified as pregnant and being treated for other health conditions in an emergency setting, woman shall, unless the pregnant person already has a documented negative HIV status she has already been tested during the third trimester of the current pregnancy, or is already documented to be HIV-positive, provide the pregnant person woman with HIV counseling, as described in subpart (d) of this Section, and shall test the pregnant person her for HIV on an opt-out basis unless she refuses. The counseling and testing or refusal of testing shall be documented in the pregnant person's medical record. A refusal may be verbal or in writing.

A health care professional shall provide the first opt-out HIV testing counseling and recommend the testing as early in the person's woman's pregnancy as possible. The health care professional providing health care services to a pregnant person in the third trimester shall perform a second round of opt-out HIV testing, ideally by the 36th week of pregnancy, unless the pregnant person already has a documented negative HIV status from the third trimester of the current pregnancy, or is already documented to be HIV-positive. For women at continued risk of exposure to HIV infection in the judgment of the health care professional, a repeat test should be recommended late in pregnancy or at the time of labor and delivery. The counseling and testing or refusal of testing shall be documented in the woman's medical record.

(b) Every health care professional or facility that cares for a pregnant person woman during labor or delivery shall, unless the pregnant person she has already has a documented negative HIV status from been tested during the third trimester of the current pregnancy, or is already documented to be HIV-positive, provide the pregnant person woman with HIV counseling, as described in subpart (d) of this Section, and rapid opt-out HIV testing unless she refuses. The person in labor or delivery may refuse the HIV test verbally or in writing. A refusal may be verbal or in writing. The counseling and testing or refusal of testing shall be documented in the laboring or delivering person's woman's medical record. The health care facility shall adopt a policy that provides that as soon as possible within medical standards after the infant's birth, the delivering person's mother's HIV test result, if available, shall be noted in the newborn infant's medical record. It shall also be noted in the newborn infant's medical record if the delivering person's third trimester mother's HIV test result is not available because the delivering person was not tested in the third trimester she has not been tested or has declined testing. Any testing or test results shall be documented in accordance with the AIDS Confidentiality Act.

(c) Every health care professional or facility caring for a newborn infant shall, upon delivery or as soon as possible within medical standards after the infant's birth, provide counseling as described in subsection (d) of this Section to the parent or guardian of the infant and perform rapid HIV testing on the infant, when the HIV status of the infant's mother is unknown, or if the delivering person did not undergo HIV testing in the third trimester of the current pregnancy.

(d) The counseling required under this Section must be provided in accordance with the AIDS Confidentiality Act and must include the following:

(1) For the health of the pregnant person woman, the voluntary nature of the testing, the benefits of HIV testing, including the prevention of transmission, and the requirement that HIV testing be performed unless the pregnant person she refuses and the methods by which the pregnant person she can refuse.

(2) The benefit of HIV testing for the pregnant person herself and the newborn infant, including interventions to prevent HIV transmission.

(3) The side effects of interventions to prevent HIV transmission.

(4) The statutory confidentiality provisions that relate to HIV and acquired immune deficiency syndrome ("AIDS") testing.

(5) The requirement for mandatory testing of the newborn if the pregnant person's mother's HIV status during the third trimester of pregnancy is not documented and the pregnant person was not rapidly tested for HIV at delivery unknown at the time of delivery.

(6) An explanation of the test, including its purpose, limitations, and the meaning of its results.

(7) An explanation of the procedures to be followed.

(8) The availability of additional or confirmatory testing, if appropriate. Counseling may be provided in writing, verbally, or by video, electronic, or other means. The pregnant or delivering person woman must be offered an opportunity to ask questions about testing and to decline testing for herself.

(e) All counseling and testing must be performed in accordance with the standards set forth in the AIDS Confidentiality Act, including the informed consent provisions of Sections 4, 7, and 8 of that Act, with the exception of the requirement of consent for testing of newborn infants.

Consent for testing of a newborn infant shall be presumed when a health care professional or health care facility seeks to perform a test on a newborn infant when the whose mother's HIV status of the person who gave birth to the infant was is not documented either in the third trimester of pregnancy or at delivery known, provided that the counseling required under subsection (d) of this Section and the AIDS Confidentiality Act has taken place.

(f) The Illinois Department of Public Health shall adopt necessary rules to implement this Act by July 1, 2008.

(Source: P.A. 94-910, eff. 6-23-06; 95-702, eff. 6-1-08.)

(410 ILCS 335/15)

Sec. 15. Reporting.

(a) Health A health care facilities facility shall adopt a policy that provides that a report of a preliminarily HIV-positive pregnant or post-partum person identified by a rapid HIV test or woman and a report of a preliminarily HIV-exposed newborn infant identified by a rapid HIV test conducted during labor and delivery or after delivery shall be made to the Department's Perinatal HIV Hotline within 12 hours but not later than 24 hours of the test result after birth. Section 15 of the AIDS Confidentiality Act applies to reporting under this Act, except that the immunities set forth in that Section do not apply in cases of willful or wanton misconduct.

(b) The Department shall adopt rules specifying the information required in reporting the preliminarily HIV-positive pregnant or post-partum person woman and preliminarily HIV-exposed newborn infant and the method of reporting. In adopting the rules, the Department shall consider the need for information, protections for the privacy and confidentiality of the infant and parents, the need to provide access to care and follow-up services to the infant, and procedures for destruction of records maintained by the Department if, through subsequent HIV testing, the pregnant or post-partum person woman or newborn infant is found to be HIV-negative.

(c) The confidentiality provisions of the AIDS Confidentiality Act shall apply to the reports of cases of perinatal HIV made pursuant to this Section.

(d) Health care facilities shall monthly report aggregate statistics to the Department that include the number of pregnant or delivering persons infected women who presented with known HIV status; , the number of persons pregnant women rapidly tested for HIV in labor and delivery as either a first HIV test or a repeat third trimester HIV test; , the number of newborn infants rapidly tested for HIV-exposure because the HIV status of the delivering person was unknown in the third trimester, or the delivering person refused testing; , the number of preliminarily HIV-positive pregnant or delivering persons women and preliminarily HIV-exposed newborn infants identified; , the number of families referred to case management; , and other information the Department determines is necessary to measure progress under the provisions of this Act. Health care facilities must report the confirmatory test result when it becomes available for each preliminarily positive rapid HIV test performed on the pregnant or delivering person woman and on a newborn.

(e) The Department or its authorized representative shall provide case management services to the preliminarily positive pregnant or post-partum person woman or the parent or guardian of the preliminarily positive newborn infant to ensure access to treatment and care and other services where the pregnant or post-partum person or the as appropriate if the parent or guardian of the newborn infant has consented to the services.

(f) Every health care facility caring for a newborn infant whose mother had been diagnosed HIV positive prior to labor and delivery shall report a case of perinatal HIV exposure in accordance with the HIV/AIDS Registry Act, the Illinois Sexually Transmissible Disease Control Act, and rules to be developed by the Department. If after 18 months from the date that the report was submitted, a newborn infant is determined to not have HIV or AIDS, the Department shall remove the newborn infant's name from all reports, records, and files collected or created under this subsection (f).

(Source: P.A. 94-910, eff. 6-23-06; 95-702, eff. 6-1-08.)

(410 ILCS 335/30)

Sec. 30. Objections of parent or guardian to test. The provisions of this Act requiring testing for HIV shall not apply when a parent or guardian of a child objects to HIV testing thereto on the grounds that the test conflicts with the parent's his or her religious tenets and practices. A written statement of the objection shall be presented to the physician or other person whose duty it is to administer and report the tests under the provisions of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 94-910, eff. 6-23-06.)

(410 ILCS 335/35)

Sec. 35. Department report. The Department of Public Health shall prepare an annual report for the Governor and the General Assembly on the implementation of this Act that includes information on the number of HIV-positive pregnant persons women who presented with known HIV status, the number of pregnant persons women rapidly tested for HIV in labor and delivery, the number of newborn infants rapidly tested for HIV exposure, the number of preliminarily HIV-positive pregnant persons women and preliminarily HIV-exposed newborn infants identified, the confirmatory test result for each preliminarily positive rapid HIV test performed on the person woman and newborn, the number of families referred to case management, and other information the Department determines is necessary to measure progress under the provisions of this Act. The Department shall assess the needs of health care professionals and facilities for ongoing training in implementation of the provisions of this Act and make recommendations to improve the program.

(Source: P.A. 94-910, eff. 6-23-06.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.