Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins

Filed: 11/19/2008

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5151

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5151, AS AMENDED, on page 15, immediately below line 10, by inserting the following:

“ARTICLE 3

    Section 5.  The amount of $40,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, respectively, is appropriated from the Tobacco Settlement Recovery Fund to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services in order for the department to provide one-time catastrophic relief payments to Illinois based hospitals that have an MIUR greater than the current statewide mean; are not a publicly owned hospital; and are not part of a multiple hospital network, unless such a hospital has an MIUR greater than the current statewide mean plus two standard deviations.  Payments under this program will be determined by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services.”.