94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB1024


 
Introduced 2/18/2005, by Sen. Carol Ronen - Emil Jones, Jr.
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		













410 ILCS 525/2
  from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 6702







    Amends the Health and Hazardous Substances Registry Act.  Makes a technical
change in a Section concerning legislative findings.
















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A BILL FOR









 











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    AN ACT concerning 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 Illinois Health and Hazardous Substances 
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Registry Act is amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
 



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    (410 ILCS 525/2)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 6702)



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    Sec. 2. (a) The General Assembly finds that: 


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        (i) the
the dangers of hazardous substances pose a 
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    serious threat to the
public
health and welfare of the 
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    citizens of Illinois;

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        (ii) there exists no unified effort to collect and 
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    analyze information on
hazardous substances and their 
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    potential health effects;


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        (iii) the lack of comprehensive information has caused 
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    concern on the part
of Illinois citizens and a lack of 
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    effective control by the State government;


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        (iv) it is the obligation of the State government to 
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    inform and protect
the citizens of Illinois by developing a 
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    comprehensive and integrated data
system on hazardous 
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    substances and public health.

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    (b) It is the purpose of this Act to establish a unified 
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Statewide project
to collect, compile and correlate 
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information on public health and hazardous
substances.  Such 
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information is to be used to assist in the determination of

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public policy and to provide a source of information for the 
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public, except
when public disclosure of the information would 
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violate the provisions of
subsection (d) of Section 4 
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concerning confidentiality.

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    (c) In particular, the purpose of the collection of cancer 
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incidence
information is to:


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            (1) monitor incidence trends of cancer to detect 
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        potential public health
problems, predict risks and 
 


 






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        assist in investigating cancer clusters;


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            (2) more accurately target intervention resources 
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        for communities and
patients and their families;


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            (3) inform health professionals and citizens about 
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        risks, early
detection
and treatment of cancers known 
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        to be elevated in their communities; and


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            (4) promote high quality research to provide 
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        better information for
cancer control and to address 
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        public concerns and questions about cancer.

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(Source: P.A. 90-607, eff. 6-30-98.)