94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB1605

 

Introduced 2/14/2005, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Mary E. Flowers

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 3960/2   from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1152

    Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning the purpose of the Act.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act is
5 amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
 
6     (20 ILCS 3960/2)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1152)
7     (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2008)
8     Sec. 2. The The purpose of this Act is to establish a
9 procedure designed to reverse the trends of increasing costs of
10 health care resulting from unnecessary construction or
11 modification of health care facilities. Such procedure shall
12 represent an attempt by the State of Illinois to improve the
13 financial ability of the public to obtain necessary health
14 services, and to establish an orderly and comprehensive health
15 care delivery system which will guarantee the availability of
16 quality health care to the general public.
17     This Act shall establish a procedure (1) which requires a
18 person establishing, constructing or modifying a health care
19 facility, as herein defined, to have the qualifications,
20 background, character and financial resources to adequately
21 provide a proper service for the community; (2) that promotes
22 through the process of recognized local and areawide health
23 facilities planning, the orderly and economic development of
24 health care facilities in the State of Illinois that avoids
25 unnecessary duplication of such facilities; (3) that promotes
26 planning for and development of health care facilities needed
27 for comprehensive health care especially in areas where the
28 health planning process has identified unmet needs; and (4)
29 that carries out these purposes in coordination with the Agency
30 and the comprehensive State health plan developed by that
31 Agency.
32 (Source: P.A. 80-941.)