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Rep. Sara Feigenholtz
Filed: 4/25/2007
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3446
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3446 on page 14, by |
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| replacing line 18 with the following: |
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| "Registry Act is amended by adding Section 9.1 and by changing |
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| Sections 3, 4, 9, and 12 as"; and
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| on page 14, immediately below line 19, by inserting the |
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| following:
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| "(410 ILCS 525/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 6703)
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| Sec. 3. For the purposes of this Act, unless the context |
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| requires otherwise:
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| (a) "Department" means the Illinois Department of Public |
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| Health.
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| (b) "Director" means the Director of the Illinois |
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| Department of Public
Health.
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| (c) "Council" means the Health and Hazardous Substances |
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| Coordinating
Council created by this Act.
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| (d) "Registry" means the Illinois Health and Hazardous |
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| Substances Registry
established by the Department of Public |
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| Health under
Section 6 of this Act.
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| (e) "Cancer" means all malignant neoplasms, regardless of |
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| the tissue of
origin, including malignant lymphoma and |
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| leukemia.
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| (f) "Cancer incidence" means a medical diagnosis of cancer, |
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| consisting
of a record of cases of cancer and specified cases |
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| of tumorous or
precancerous diseases which occur in Illinois, |
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| and such other information
concerning these cases as the |
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| Department deems necessary or appropriate in
order to conduct |
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| thorough and complete epidemiological surveys of cancer
and |
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| cancer-related diseases in Illinois.
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| (g) "Occupational disease" includes but is not limited to |
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| all occupational
diseases covered by the Workers' Occupational |
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| Diseases Act.
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| (h) "Hazardous substances" means a hazardous substance as |
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| defined in the
Environmental Protection Act.
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| (i) "Hazardous substances incident" includes but is not |
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| limited to a
spill, fire, or accident involving hazardous |
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| substances, illegal disposal,
transportation, or use of |
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| hazardous substances, and complaints or permit
violations |
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| involving hazardous substances.
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| (j) "Company profile" includes but is not limited to the |
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| name of any
company operating in the State
of Illinois which |
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| generates, uses, disposes of or transports hazardous
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| substances, identification of the types of permits issued in |
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| such company's
name relating to transactions involving |
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| hazardous substances, inventory of
hazardous substances |
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| handled by such company, and the manner in which such
hazardous |
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| substances are used, disposed of, or transported by the |
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| company.
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| (k) "Hazardous nuclear material" means (1) any source or |
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| special
nuclear material intended for use or used as an energy |
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| source in a
production or utilization facility as defined in |
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| Sec. 11.v. or 11.cc. of
the federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954 |
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| as amended; (2) any fuel which has
been discharged from such a |
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| facility following irradiation, the constituent
elements of |
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| which have not been separated by reprocessing; or (3) any
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| by-product material resulting from operation of such a |
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| facility.
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| (l)
(1) "Adverse pregnancy outcome" includes but is not |
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| limited to
birth defects, fetal loss, infant mortality, low |
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| birth weight, selected
life-threatening conditions, and other |
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| developmental disabilities as
defined by the Department.
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| (m) "News medium" means any newspaper or other periodical |
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| issued at regular intervals, whether in print or electronic |
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| format, and having a general circulation; a news service, |
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| whether in print or electronic format; a radio station, a |
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| television station; a television network; a community antenna |
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| television service; and any person or corporation engaged in |
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| the making of news reels or other motion picture news for |
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| public showing. |
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| (n) "Researcher" means an individual who is affiliated with |
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| or supported by universities, academic centers, research |
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| institutions, hospitals, and governmental entities who conduct |
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| scientific research or investigation on human diseases.
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| (Source: P.A. 85-831.)"; and
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| on page 17, line 23, after "Upon", by inserting "review and"; |
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| and
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| on page 18, line 2, after "research", by inserting "consistent |
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| with the fundamental purposes of the Registry"; and
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| on page 18, immediately below line 3, by inserting the |
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| following:
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| "(410 ILCS 525/9.1 new)
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| Sec. 9.1. Release of data to news media. Upon review and |
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| approval of an appropriate Institutional Review Board (IRB) or |
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| its equivalent on protection of human subjects in research, the |
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| Department shall release data not otherwise available for |
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| release under the Freedom of Information Act to news media for |
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| purposes of public interest research consistent with the |
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| fundamental purposes of the Registry.".
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