HB4288ham001 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Suzanne Ness

Filed: 2/17/2022

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4288

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4288 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Nursing Home Care Act is amended by adding Section 2-116 as follows:

(210 ILCS 45/2-116 new)

Sec. 2-116. Hospice individuals; private rooms; family member access. A resident who is an end-of-life hospice patient in the final 48 hours of his or her life, and who does not receive palliative care, has the right to request a private room in the resident's facility, regardless of the resident's method of payment for residency at the facility, including, but not limited to, payment through private funding, Medicare, or Medicaid. The facility shall honor this request as long as it has the capacity to do so. This right does not apply during a public health emergency, during a disaster declared by a proclamation, or if the facility is experiencing an outbreak of an infectious disease. The resident's facility shall ensure that the resident's family members have full access to visit the resident at the facility.".