HB2751 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB2751

Introduced 2/22/2005, by Rep. Tom Cross

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

225 ILCS 650/8

from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 308

Amends the Meat and Poultry Inspection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning medical certificates.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

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

Section 5. The Meat and Poultry Inspection Act is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:

(225 ILCS 650/8) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 308)

Sec. 8. Medical Certificate. The The licensee of a Type I establishment shall require all employees in his establishment to meet the health requirements established by the Illinois Department of Public Health. The Director may at any time require an employee of an establishment to submit to a health examination by a physician. No person suffering from any communicable disease, including any communicable skin disease, and no person with infected wounds, and no person who is a "carrier" of a communicable disease shall work in any capacity in an establishment. No person shall work or be employed in or about any establishment during the time in which a communicable disease exists in the home in which such person resides unless such person has obtained a certificate from the state or local health authority to the effect that no danger of public contagion or infection or adulteration of product will result from the employment of such person in such establishment.

(Source: P.A. 91-170, eff. 1-1-00.)