102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB5568

 

Introduced 1/31/2022, by Rep. Fred Crespo

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 2310/2310-413 new

    Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Public Health to recommend new standards for labs that test for COVID-19 and have opened since 2021. Provides that the Department shall ensure that its recommendations do not overregulate established labs that test other samples. Requires the Department to ensure that it maintains an adequately staffed hotline to receive complaints about COVID-19 testing sites and labs. Effective immediately.


LRB102 26088 CPF 35563 b

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

HB5568LRB102 26088 CPF 35563 b

1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Department of Public Health Powers and
5Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
6amended by adding Section 2310-413 as follows:
 
7    (20 ILCS 2310/2310-413 new)
8    Sec. 2310-413. COVID-19 testing site standards; hotline.
9    (a) The Department shall recommend new standards for labs
10that test for COVID-19 and have opened since 2021. The
11Department shall ensure that its recommendations do not
12overregulate established labs that test other samples.
13    (b) The Department shall ensure that it maintains an
14adequately staffed hotline to receive complaints about
15COVID-19 testing sites and labs.
 
16    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
17becoming law.