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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,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Infectious Disease Notification Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | Section 5. Notification of designated officer. | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | (a) If a victim of an emergency is transported by emergency | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | response employees to a medical facility and the medical | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | facility makes a determination that the victim has an airborne | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | infectious disease or any other communicable disease, then the | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | medical facility shall notify the designated officer of the | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | emergency response employees who transported the victim to the | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | medical facility of the determination. | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | (b) If a victim of an emergency is transported by emergency | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | response employees to a medical facility and the victim dies at | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | or before reaching the medical facility, the medical facility | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | ascertaining the cause of death shall notify the designated | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | officer of the emergency response employees who transported the | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | victim to the initial medical facility of any determination by | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | the medical facility that the victim had an airborne infectious | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | disease or communicable disease.
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22 | Section 10. Requests for notification. |
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1 | (a) If an emergency response employee believes that the | ||||||
2 | employee may have been exposed to an infectious disease by a | ||||||
3 | victim of an emergency who was transported to a medical | ||||||
4 | facility as a result of the emergency and if the employee | ||||||
5 | attended, treated, assisted, or transported the victim | ||||||
6 | pursuant to the emergency, then the designated officer of the | ||||||
7 | employee shall, upon the request of the employee, carry out the | ||||||
8 | duties described in subsection (b) of this Section concerning a | ||||||
9 | determination of whether the employee may have been exposed to | ||||||
10 | an infectious disease by the victim. | ||||||
11 | (b) The duties concerning a determination of whether the | ||||||
12 | employee may have been exposed to an infectious disease by the | ||||||
13 | victim are as follows: | ||||||
14 | (1) the designated officer involved shall collect the | ||||||
15 | facts relating to the circumstances under which, for | ||||||
16 | purposes of subsection (a) of this Section, the employee | ||||||
17 | involved may have been exposed to an infectious disease; | ||||||
18 | and | ||||||
19 | (2) the designated officer shall evaluate the facts and | ||||||
20 | make a determination of whether, if the victim involved had | ||||||
21 | any known infectious disease, the employee would have been | ||||||
22 | exposed to the disease under such facts.
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23 | (c) If a designated officer makes a determination under | ||||||
24 | item (2) of subsection (b) of this Section that an emergency | ||||||
25 | response employee may have been exposed to an infectious | ||||||
26 | disease, the designated officer shall submit to the medical |
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1 | facility to which the victim involved was transported a request | ||||||
2 | for a response under subsection (d) of this Section concerning | ||||||
3 | the victim of the emergency involved. The request shall be in | ||||||
4 | writing and be signed by the designated officer involved, and | ||||||
5 | shall contain a statement of the facts collected pursuant to | ||||||
6 | item (1) of subsection (b). | ||||||
7 | (d) The procedures concerning an evaluation of and response | ||||||
8 | to a request to a medical facility pursuant to this Act are as | ||||||
9 | follows: | ||||||
10 | (1) If a medical facility receives a request under | ||||||
11 | subsection (c) of this Section, then the medical facility | ||||||
12 | shall evaluate the facts submitted in the request and make | ||||||
13 | a determination of whether, on the basis of the medical | ||||||
14 | information possessed by the facility regarding the victim | ||||||
15 | involved, the emergency response employee was exposed to a | ||||||
16 | known infectious disease. | ||||||
17 | (2) If a medical facility makes a determination under | ||||||
18 | item (1) of this subsection (d) that the emergency response | ||||||
19 | employee involved has been exposed to an infectious | ||||||
20 | disease, then the medical facility shall, in writing, | ||||||
21 | notify the designated officer who submitted the request of | ||||||
22 | the determination. | ||||||
23 | (3) If a medical facility makes a determination under | ||||||
24 | item (1) of this subsection (d) that the emergency response | ||||||
25 | employee involved has not been exposed to an infectious | ||||||
26 | disease, then the medical facility shall, in writing, |
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1 | inform the designated officer who submitted the request of | ||||||
2 | the determination. | ||||||
3 | Section 15. Rules. The Department of Public Health shall | ||||||
4 | adopt rules that it deems necessary for the efficient | ||||||
5 | administration of this Act. | ||||||
6 | Section 20. Relationship to other Acts. To the extent that | ||||||
7 | the provisions of this Act conflict with any provision of the | ||||||
8 | AIDS Confidentiality Act, the provisions of the AIDS | ||||||
9 | Confidentiality Act shall control.
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