99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB5817
 
Introduced , by Rep. Barbara Wheeler
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
  
720 ILCS 510/10.1  from Ch. 38, par. 81-30.1

     Amends the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975.  Provides that the Department of Public Health shall compile data on deaths or complications resulting from abortions if more than 5 deaths or complications result from abortions in a county or in the State.  Provides that the Department of Public Health shall annually publish that data by State and county and make the data available to the public. Excludes from the data made available to the public personal identifying data.
  


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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 is amended  by 
5changing Section 10.1 as follows:
 



6    (720 ILCS 510/10.1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 81-30.1)



7    Sec. 10.1. Reporting by physicians to the Department
of 
8Public Health of complications and deaths resulting from an 
9abortion. 
10    (a) Any physician who diagnoses a woman as having 
11complications
resulting from an abortion or if the woman dies 
12as the result of an abortion shall report, within a reasonable 
13period of time,
the diagnosis and a summary of her
physical 
14symptoms to the Illinois Department of Public Health in 
15accordance
with procedures and upon forms required by such 
16Department.  The Department
of Public Health shall define the 
17complications required to be reported
by rule.  The 
18complications defined by rule shall be those which, according

19to contemporary medical standards, are manifested by symptoms 
20with severity
equal to or greater than hemorrhaging requiring 
21transfusion, infection,
incomplete abortion, or punctured 
22organs.  If the physician making the
diagnosis of a complication 
23knows the name or location of the facility
where the abortion 
 
 
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1was performed, he shall report such information to the

2Department of Public Health.

3    (b) The Department of Public Health shall compile data on 
4deaths or complications resulting from abortions if more than 5 
5deaths or complications result from abortions in a county or in 
6this State.  The Department of Public Health shall annually 
7publish that data by State and county and make the data 
8available to the public.  The data available to the public shall 
9not include:
10        (1) the names of the facilities that performed the 
11    abortions;
12        (2)  patient identification numbers;
13        (3) any set of information the amount of which that is 
14    50 or fewer from which the identity of the person or 
15    persons to whom it relates may be discerned;
16        (4)  education of the persons who obtained the 
17    abortions; and
18        (5) race and ethnicities of the persons who obtained 
19    the abortions. 
20    Any physician who intentionally violates this Section 
21shall be subject
to revocation of his license pursuant to 
22paragraph (22) of Section 22
of the Medical Practice Act of 
231987.

24(Source: P.A. 85-1209.)