Human Services Committee

Adopted in House Comm. on Mar 04, 2004

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3963

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3963 on page 1, by
3 replacing lines 5 and 6 with the following:
4 "Clinical Research Act is amended by changing Sections 5 and 10
5 as follows:
 
6     (30 ILCS 785/5)
7     Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act:
8     "Grantee" means any qualified public, private, or
9 not-for-profit agency or individual, including, but not
10 limited to, a college, university, hospital, laboratory,
11 research institution, local health department, voluntary
12 health agency, health maintenance organization, corporation,
13 student, fellow, or entrepreneur, conducting clinical research
14 using State funds. A grantee may also be a corporation that is
15 headquartered in Illinois and that conducts research using
16 State funds.
17     "Minority group" means a group that is a readily
18 identifiable subset of the U.S. population that is
19 distinguished by racial, ethnic, or cultural heritage. The
20 following racial and ethnic categories shall be used as
21 guidelines:
22         (1) "American Indian or Alaskan Native" means a person
23 having origins in any of the original native peoples of
24 North America and who maintains a cultural identification
25 through tribal affiliation or community recognition.

 

 

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1         (2) "Asian or Pacific Islander" means a person having
2 origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East,
3 Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the Pacific
4 Islands, including, but not limited to, China, India,
5 Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands, and Samoa.
6         (3) "Black" means someone not of Hispanic origin having
7 origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.
8         (4) "Hispanic" means a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican,
9 Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture
10 or origin, regardless of race. is defined as in the 2000
11 National Institutes of Health guidelines.
12     "Project of clinical research" includes a clinical trial.
13 (Source: P.A. 93-514, eff. 1-1-04.)"; and
 
14 on page 1, by replacing lines 20 and 21 with the following:
15         "(4) Comply with the National Institutes of Health
16 Guidelines on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities in
17 Clinical Research.".