101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4282

 

Introduced 1/28/2020, by Rep. Lindsay Parkhurst

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
210 ILCS 50/3.155

    Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Provides that nothing in the Act, or any rules adopted by the Department of Public Health under the Act, shall be construed to counteract a provision of the Bill of Rights for the Homeless Act providing that no person's rights, privileges, or access to services may be denied or abridged solely because he or she is homeless.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act
5is amended by changing Section 3.155 as follows:
 
6    (210 ILCS 50/3.155)
7    Sec. 3.155. General Provisions.
8    (a) Authority and responsibility for the EMS System shall
9be vested in the EMS Resource Hospital, through the EMS Medical
10Director or his designee.
11    (b) For an inter-hospital emergency or non-emergency
12medical transport, in which the physician from the sending
13hospital provides the EMS personnel with written medical
14orders, such written medical orders cannot exceed the scope of
15care which the EMS personnel are authorized to render pursuant
16to this Act.
17    (c) For an inter-hospital emergency or non-emergency
18medical transport of a patient who requires medical care beyond
19the scope of care which the EMS personnel are authorized to
20render pursuant to this Act, a qualified physician, nurse,
21perfusionist, or respiratory therapist familiar with the scope
22of care needed must accompany the patient and the transferring
23hospital and physician shall assume medical responsibility for

 

 

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1that portion of the medical care.
2    (d) No emergency medical services vehicles or personnel
3from another State or nation may be utilized on a regular basis
4to pick up and transport patients within this State without
5first complying with this Act and all rules adopted by the
6Department pursuant to this Act.
7    (e) This Act shall not prevent emergency medical services
8vehicles or personnel from another State or nation from
9rendering requested assistance in this State in a disaster
10situation, or operating from a location outside the State and
11occasionally transporting patients into this State for needed
12medical care. Except as provided in Section 31 of this Act,
13this Act shall not provide immunity from liability for such
14activities.
15    (f) Except as provided in subsection (e) of this Section,
16no person or entity shall transport emergency or non-emergency
17patients by ambulance, SEMSV, or medical carrier without first
18complying with the provisions of this Act and all rules adopted
19pursuant to this Act.
20    (g) Nothing in this Act or the rules adopted by the
21Department under this Act shall be construed to authorize any
22medical treatment to or transportation of any person who
23objects on religious grounds.
24    (h) Patients, individuals who accompany a patient, and
25emergency medical services personnel may not smoke while inside
26an ambulance or SEMSV. The Department of Public Health may

 

 

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1impose a civil penalty on an individual who violates this
2subsection in the amount of $100.
3    (i) Nothing in this Act, or any rules adopted by the
4Department under this Act, shall be construed to counteract
5Section 10 of the Bill of Rights for the Homeless Act.
6(Source: P.A. 92-376, eff. 8-15-01.)