093_HB1684

                                     LRB093 10759 JLS 11154 b

 1        AN ACT relating to State employee benefits.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The State Employees Group  Insurance  Act  of
 5    1971 is amended by changing Section 15.1 as follows:

 6        (5 ILCS 375/15.1) (from Ch. 127, par. 535.1)
 7        Sec.   15.1.  Optometric  services.  Every  group  health
 8    insurance  program  or  self-insurance  health   plan   which
 9    provides  coverage for services coming within the practice of
10    optometry as defined in the Illinois Optometric Practice  Act
11    of  1987,  as now or hereafter amended, shall provide to each
12    member a written  notice  that  such  member  may  elect  for
13    optometric  services  received  to  be reimbursed to either a
14    physician licensed to practice medicine in all  its  branches
15    or to an optometrist licensed in this State.
16        This  Section  applies only to persons who become covered
17    by such group insurance program or self-insurance health plan
18    after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1979.
19    (Source: P.A. 85-1440.)