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 Bill Status of HB5551  101st General Assembly


Short Description:  DISEASE-TRICHOMONIASIS

House Sponsors
Rep. Ann M. Williams - Sam Yingling, Kelly M. Cassidy and Jonathan "Yoni" Pizer

Last Action
DateChamber Action
  1/13/2021HouseSession Sine Die

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance
410 ILCS 325/6from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7406


Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Illinois Sexually Transmissible Disease Control Act. Provides that a health care professional who makes a clinical diagnosis of trichomoniasis may prescribe, dispense, furnish, or otherwise provide prescription antibiotic drugs to the infected person's sexual partner or partners for the treatment of the sexually transmissible disease without physical examination of the partner or partners, if in the judgment of the health care professional the partner is unlikely or unable to present for comprehensive healthcare, including evaluation, testing, and treatment for sexually transmissible diseases.

Actions 
DateChamber Action
  2/14/2020HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Ann M. Williams
  2/18/2020HouseFirst Reading
  2/18/2020HouseReferred to Rules Committee
  2/18/2020HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy
  2/18/2020HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Jonathan "Yoni" Pizer
  2/26/2020HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sam Yingling
  3/17/2020HouseAssigned to Health Care Licenses Committee
  6/23/2020HouseRule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
  1/13/2021HouseSession Sine Die

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