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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  capacity  of  each  local  health
21    department  to  maintain  effective  programs  and  services,
22    population size, indicators of need, numbers  of  persons  in
 
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 1    poverty,  and other criteria significant to protecting public
 2    health, along with the services,  functions,  structure,  and
 3    capacity  of  the  Department.  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 of each  local
12    health  department  in  effect  for the fiscal year beginning
13    July 1, 2002 is neither diminished nor impaired in subsequent
14    fiscal years, provided that the total local health protection
15    grant appropriation is not reduced. The  revised  methodology
16    shall  be  published  in  the Illinois Register as a proposed
17    rule on a timely basis so that the rule will be  adopted  and
18    effective July 1, 2004.".