HB4664 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4664

Introduced 2/18/2020, by Rep. Robyn Gabel

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 2310/2310-431 new

Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Public Health to ensure that the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program covers expenses: (1) of gynecology visits for women who have cervical cancer symptoms that do not allow them to receive a pap smear; and (2) for women who enter the program for a cervical cancer screen but are found to have a cancer other than cervical cancer.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding Section 2310-431 as follows:

(20 ILCS 2310/2310-431 new)

Sec. 2310-431. Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program; gynecology visits; cervical cancer screens.

(a) The Department shall ensure that the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program covers expenses of gynecology visits for women who have cervical cancer symptoms that do not allow them to receive a pap smear.

(b) The Department shall ensure that the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program covers expenses for women who enter the Program for a cervical cancer screen but are found to have a cancer other than cervical cancer, including, but not limited to, endometrial cancer, vaginal cancer, and vulval cancer.