HB2617 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB2617

Introduced 2/21/2013, by Rep. Jil Tracy

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

770 ILCS 23/15

Amends the Health Care Services Lien Act. Provides that notice must be provided, in the same manner as a notice of a judgment, award, settlement, or compromise would be provided, to a lien holder by an injured person or his or her authorized representative when a case is dismissed or a judgment is entered against the injured person.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning civil law.

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

Section 5. The Health Care Services Lien Act is amended by changing Section 15 as follows:

(770 ILCS 23/15)

Sec. 15. Notice of judgment or award or dismissal.

(a) A judgment, award, settlement, or compromise secured by or on behalf of an injured person may not be satisfied without the injured person or his or her authorized representative first giving notice of the judgment, award, settlement, or compromise to the health care professional or health care provider that rendered a service in the treatment, care, or maintenance of the injured person and that has served a lien notice pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 10. The notice shall be in writing and served upon the lien holder or, in the case of a lien holder operated entirely by a unit of local government, upon the individual or entity authorized to receive service under Section 2-211 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

(b) Notice must be provided to a lien holder by the injured person or his or her authorized representative when a case is dismissed or a judgment is entered against the injured person. The notice shall be in writing and served on the lien holder in the same manner as provided under subsection (a) of this Section.

(Source: P.A. 93-51, eff. 7-1-03.)