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1     AN ACT concerning health improvement.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
5 amended by changing Section 5-565 as follows:
 
6     (20 ILCS 5/5-565)  (was 20 ILCS 5/6.06)
7     Sec. 5-565. In the Department of Public Health.
8     (a) The General Assembly declares it to be the public
9 policy of this State that all citizens of Illinois are entitled
10 to lead healthy lives. Governmental public health has a
11 specific responsibility to ensure that a system is in place to
12 allow the public health mission to be achieved. To develop a
13 system requires certain core functions to be performed by
14 government. The State Board of Health is to assume the
15 leadership role in advising the Director in meeting the
16 following functions:
17         (1) Needs assessment.
18         (2) Statewide health objectives.
19         (3) Policy development.
20         (4) Assurance of access to necessary services.
21     There shall be a State Board of Health composed of 17
22 persons, all of whom shall be appointed by the Governor, with
23 the advice and consent of the Senate for those appointed by the
24 Governor on and after June 30, 1998, and one of whom shall be a
25 senior citizen age 60 or over. Five members shall be physicians
26 licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, one
27 representing a medical school faculty, one who is board
28 certified in preventive medicine, and one 2 who is are engaged
29 in private practice. One member shall be a dentist; one an
30 environmental health practitioner; one a local public health
31 administrator; one a local board of health member; one a
32 registered nurse; one a veterinarian; one a public health

 

 

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1 academician; one a health care industry representative; one a
2 representative of the business community; one a representative
3 of the non-profit public interest community; and 2 4 shall be
4 citizens at large.
5     The terms of Board of Health members shall be 3 years,
6 except that members shall continue to serve on the Board of
7 Health until a replacement is appointed. Upon the effective
8 date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, in
9 the appointment of the Board of Health members appointed to
10 vacancies or positions with terms expiring on or before
11 December 31, 2004, the Governor shall appoint up to 6 members
12 to serve for terms of 3 years; up to 6 members to serve for
13 terms of 2 years; and up to 5 members to serve for a term of one
14 year, so that the term of no more than 6 members expire in the
15 same year. In the appointment of the first Board of Health
16 members appointed after September 19, 1991 (the effective date
17 of Public Act 87-633), the Governor shall appoint 5 members to
18 serve for terms of 5 years; 5 members to serve for terms of 2
19 years; and 5 members to serve for a term of one year. Members
20 appointed thereafter shall be appointed for terms of 3 years,
21 except that when an appointment is made to fill a vacancy, the
22 appointment shall be for the remaining term of the position
23 vacated. The initial terms for the 2 additional members of the
24 board who are citizens at large appointed under Public Act
25 90-607 shall be for 3 years each, with these positions
26 thereafter being filled as with other members appointed by the
27 Governor. All members shall be legal residents of the State of
28 Illinois. The duties of the Board shall include, but not be
29 limited to, the following:
30         (1) To advise the Department of ways to encourage
31     public understanding and support of the Department's
32     programs.
33         (2) To evaluate all boards, councils, committees,
34     authorities, and bodies advisory to, or an adjunct of, the
35     Department of Public Health or its Director for the purpose
36     of recommending to the Director one or more of the

 

 

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1     following:
2             (i) The elimination of bodies whose activities are
3         not consistent with goals and objectives of the
4         Department.
5             (ii) The consolidation of bodies whose activities
6         encompass compatible programmatic subjects.
7             (iii) The restructuring of the relationship
8         between the various bodies and their integration
9         within the organizational structure of the Department.
10             (iv) The establishment of new bodies deemed
11         essential to the functioning of the Department.
12         (3) To serve as an advisory group to the Director for
13     public health emergencies and control of health hazards.
14         (4) To advise the Director regarding public health
15     policy, and to make health policy recommendations
16     regarding priorities to the Governor through the Director.
17         (5) To present public health issues to the Director and
18     to make recommendations for the resolution of those issues.
19         (6) To recommend studies to delineate public health
20     problems.
21         (7) To make recommendations to the Governor through the
22     Director regarding the coordination of State public health
23     activities with other State and local public health
24     agencies and organizations.
25         (8) To report on or before February 1 of each year on
26     the health of the residents of Illinois to the Governor,
27     the General Assembly, and the public.
28         (9) To review the final draft of all proposed
29     administrative rules, other than emergency or preemptory
30     rules and those rules that another advisory body must
31     approve or review within a statutorily defined time period,
32     of the Department after September 19, 1991 (the effective
33     date of Public Act 87-633). The Board shall review the
34     proposed rules within 90 days of submission by the
35     Department. The Department shall take into consideration
36     any comments and recommendations of the Board regarding the

 

 

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1     proposed rules prior to submission to the Secretary of
2     State for initial publication. If the Department disagrees
3     with the recommendations of the Board, it shall submit a
4     written response outlining the reasons for not accepting
5     the recommendations.
6         In the case of proposed administrative rules or
7     amendments to administrative rules regarding immunization
8     of children against preventable communicable diseases
9     designated by the Director under the Communicable Disease
10     Prevention Act, after the Immunization Advisory Committee
11     has made its recommendations, the Board shall conduct 3
12     public hearings, geographically distributed throughout the
13     State. At the conclusion of the hearings, the State Board
14     of Health shall issue a report, including its
15     recommendations, to the Director. The Director shall take
16     into consideration any comments or recommendations made by
17     the Board based on these hearings.
18         (10) To deliver to the Governor for presentation to the
19     General Assembly a State Health Improvement Plan. The first
20     and second such plans shall be delivered to the Governor on
21     January 1, 2006 and on January 1, 2009 respectively, and
22     then every 4 years thereafter.
23         The Plan shall recommend priorities and strategies to
24     improve the public health system and the health status of
25     Illinois residents, taking into consideration national
26     health objectives and system standards as frameworks for
27     assessment.
28         The Plan shall also take into consideration priorities
29     and strategies developed at the community level through the
30     Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs (IPLAN) and
31     any regional health improvement plans that may be
32     developed. The Plan shall focus on prevention as a key
33     strategy for long-term health improvement in Illinois.
34         The Plan shall examine and make recommendations on the
35     contributions and strategies of the public and private
36     sectors for improving health status and the public health

 

 

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1     system in the State. In addition to recommendations on
2     health status improvement priorities and strategies for
3     the population of the State as a whole, the Plan shall make
4     recommendations regarding priorities and strategies for
5     reducing and eliminating health disparities in Illinois;
6     including racial, ethnic, gender, age, socio-economic and
7     geographic disparities.
8         The Director of the Illinois Department of Public
9     Health shall appoint a Planning Team that includes a range
10     of public, private, and voluntary sector stakeholders and
11     participants in the public health system. This Team shall
12     include: the directors of State agencies with public health
13     responsibilities (or their designees), including but not
14     limited to the Illinois Departments of Public Health and
15     Department of Human Services, representatives of local
16     health departments, representatives of local community
17     health partnerships, and individuals with expertise who
18     represent an array of organizations and constituencies
19     engaged in public health improvement and prevention.
20         The State Board of Health shall hold at least 3 public
21     hearings addressing drafts of the Plan in representative
22     geographic areas of the State. Members of the Planning Team
23     shall receive no compensation for their services, but may
24     be reimbursed for their necessary expenses. To make
25     recommendations to the Governor through the Director
26     concerning the development and periodic updating of
27     Statewide health objectives encompassing, in part, the
28     periodically published federal health objectives for the
29     nation, which will provide the basis for the policy
30     development and assurance roles of the State Health
31     Department, and to make recommendations to the Governor
32     through the Director regarding legislation and funding
33     necessary to implement the objectives.
34         (11) Upon the request of the Governor, to recommend to
35     the Governor candidates for Director of Public Health when
36     vacancies occur in the position.

 

 

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1         (12) To adopt bylaws for the conduct of its own
2     business, including the authority to establish ad hoc
3     committees to address specific public health programs
4     requiring resolution.
5     Upon appointment, the Board shall elect a chairperson from
6 among its members.
7     Members of the Board shall receive compensation for their
8 services at the rate of $150 per day, not to exceed $10,000 per
9 year, as designated by the Director for each day required for
10 transacting the business of the Board and shall be reimbursed
11 for necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their
12 duties. The Board shall meet from time to time at the call of
13 the Department, at the call of the chairperson, or upon the
14 request of 3 of its members, but shall not meet less than 4
15 times per year.
16     (b) (Blank).
17     (c) An Advisory Board on Necropsy Service to Coroners,
18 which shall counsel and advise with the Director on the
19 administration of the Autopsy Act. The Advisory Board shall
20 consist of 11 members, including a senior citizen age 60 or
21 over, appointed by the Governor, one of whom shall be
22 designated as chairman by a majority of the members of the
23 Board. In the appointment of the first Board the Governor shall
24 appoint 3 members to serve for terms of 1 year, 3 for terms of 2
25 years, and 3 for terms of 3 years. The members first appointed
26 under Public Act 83-1538 shall serve for a term of 3 years. All
27 members appointed thereafter shall be appointed for terms of 3
28 years, except that when an appointment is made to fill a
29 vacancy, the appointment shall be for the remaining term of the
30 position vacant. The members of the Board shall be citizens of
31 the State of Illinois. In the appointment of members of the
32 Advisory Board the Governor shall appoint 3 members who shall
33 be persons licensed to practice medicine and surgery in the
34 State of Illinois, at least 2 of whom shall have received
35 post-graduate training in the field of pathology; 3 members who
36 are duly elected coroners in this State; and 5 members who

 

 

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1 shall have interest and abilities in the field of forensic
2 medicine but who shall be neither persons licensed to practice
3 any branch of medicine in this State nor coroners. In the
4 appointment of medical and coroner members of the Board, the
5 Governor shall invite nominations from recognized medical and
6 coroners organizations in this State respectively. Board
7 members, while serving on business of the Board, shall receive
8 actual necessary travel and subsistence expenses while so
9 serving away from their places of residence.
10 (Source: P.A. 90-607, eff. 6-30-98; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00;
11 91-798, eff. 7-9-00.)