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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1045
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 1045 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Department of Public Health Powers and
5 Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
6 amended by adding Section 2310-106 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 2310/2310-106 new)
8 Sec. 2310-106. Local health protection grants; revised
9 methodology. The Department, in cooperation with the Illinois
10 Association of Public Health Administrators and any other
11 legally established association of certified health
12 departments whose jurisdictions cover at least 20% of the
13 State's population or 20% of the land area of the State, with
14 regard to the allocation of the annual appropriation for the
15 ordinary and contingent expenses of the Department for the
16 purpose of local health protection grants for the fiscal year
17 beginning July 1, 2004, shall revise the methodology
18 promulgated by the administrative rule governing the purpose
19 and distribution of local health protection grants, taking
20 into consideration the services, functions, structures, and
21 capacity of the Department and the capacity of each local
22 health department to maintain effective programs and
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1 services, population size, indicators of population need,
2 numbers of persons in poverty, and other criteria significant
3 to protecting public health. The revised methodology shall
4 include criteria, standards, and procedures for allocating
5 these grants on a basis that provides incentives for local
6 health departments to organize into regions or other
7 organizational arrangements that assure an optimal
8 operational efficiency and the delivery of the 10 essential
9 public health services established by the Centers for Disease
10 Control and Prevention (CDC), with assurances that the Local
11 Public Health Protection Grant funded capacity, including
12 that funded by minimums, of each local health department in
13 effect for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2003 is neither
14 diminished nor impaired in subsequent fiscal years, provided
15 that the total local health protection grant appropriation is
16 not reduced. The revised methodology shall be published in
17 the Illinois Register as a proposed rule on a timely basis so
18 that the rule will be adopted and effective July 1, 2004.".