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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0647
Introduced 2/6/2007, by Rep. Rich Brauer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning umbilical cord blood donation.
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A BILL FOR
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HB0647 |
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LRB095 04174 DRJ 24212 b |
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| AN ACT concerning regulation.
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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 Hospital Licensing Act is amended by |
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| changing Section 6.21 as follows:
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| (210 ILCS 85/6.21)
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| Sec. 6.21. Umbilical cord blood donation.
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| (a) All licensed hospitals shall offer a pregnant patient |
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| the
the option to
donate, to a publicly accessible certified |
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| cord blood bank, blood extracted
from the umbilical cord |
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| following the delivery of a newborn child if the
donation can |
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| be made at no expense to the patient or
hospital for collection |
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| or storage.
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| (b) Nothing in this Section obligates a hospital to collect |
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| umbilical cord
blood if, in the professional judgment of a |
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| physician licensed to practice
medicine in all its branches or |
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| a nurse, the collection would threaten the
health of the mother |
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| or child.
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| (c) Nothing in this Section imposes a requirement upon any |
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| hospital
employee, physician, nurse, or hospital that is |
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| directly affiliated with a bona
fide religious denomination |
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| that includes as an integral part of its beliefs
and practices |
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| the tenet that blood transfer is contrary to the moral
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