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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB3987 Introduced 11/12/2024, by Sen. Karina Villa SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 410 ILCS 320/1 | from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4801 |
| Amends the Prenatal Syphilis Act. In provisions concerning blood testing of pregnant women, provides that the period for the taking of a second sample of blood during the third trimester of pregnancy is between 27 and 32 weeks, and provides that the purpose of the taking of a second sample of blood during the third trimester of pregnancy is to ensure treatment begins 30 days before delivery. |
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| | SB3987 | | LRB103 43213 BDA 76483 b |
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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 Section 1 as follows:
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| 6 | | (410 ILCS 320/1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4801) |
| 7 | | Sec. 1. Every physician, or other person, attending in a |
| 8 | | professional capacity a pregnant woman in Illinois, shall take |
| 9 | | or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such woman at the |
| 10 | | time of the first examination, and a second sample of blood |
| 11 | | shall be taken or caused to be taken during the third trimester |
| 12 | | of pregnancy, between 27 and 32 weeks, to ensure treatment |
| 13 | | begins 30 days before delivery. These blood specimens shall be |
| 14 | | submitted to a laboratory approved by the Department of Public |
| 15 | | Health for a serological test for syphilis approved by the |
| 16 | | State Department of Public Health. In the event that any such |
| 17 | | blood test shall show a positive or doubtful result an |
| 18 | | additional test or tests shall be made. Such serological test |
| 19 | | or tests shall, upon request of any physician, be made free of |
| 20 | | charge by the State Department of Public Health or the Health |
| 21 | | Departments of cities, villages and incorporated towns |
| 22 | | maintaining laboratories for the testing of blood specimens of |
| 23 | | any woman who resides in that city, village or incorporated |