Full Text of SB0547 95th General Assembly
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Sen. William Delgado
Filed: 3/5/2007
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 547
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 547 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "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 2310-367 as follows: | 7 |
| (20 ILCS 2310/2310-367 new) | 8 |
| Sec. 2310-367. Health Data Task Force. | 9 |
| (a) Subject to an appropriation or the availability of | 10 |
| other funds identified for this purpose, the Health Data Task | 11 |
| Force is created. In accordance with the recommendations of the | 12 |
| 2007 Illinois State Health Improvement Plan, the Health Data | 13 |
| Task Force shall develop a plan to create a linked health data | 14 |
| system that measures, analyzes, and reports on the health | 15 |
| status of Illinois residents, including those impacted by | 16 |
| health disparities. The plan shall include, but not be limited |
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| to all of the following: | 2 |
| (1) Approaches to assuring adequate data on race, | 3 |
| ethnicity, geographic location, gender, age, sexual | 4 |
| orientation, and other populations affected by health | 5 |
| disparities. | 6 |
| (2) Identification of and proposals for addressing | 7 |
| privacy and other legal issues. | 8 |
| (3) Identification of and approaches to solving | 9 |
| compatibility issues, including software, hardware, | 10 |
| platform, and other information systems issues. | 11 |
| (4) Identification of needs and approaches to | 12 |
| standardizing definitions of indicators across systems to | 13 |
| assure comparability. | 14 |
| (5) Approaches that assure the highest quality data | 15 |
| collection. | 16 |
| (6) Development of methods to increase the timeliness | 17 |
| and availability of health data. | 18 |
| (7) Integration of methods to increase the timeliness | 19 |
| and availability of health data. | 20 |
| (8) Methods for effective dissemination and use of the | 21 |
| health data to non-governmental organizations for program | 22 |
| development and policy planning. | 23 |
| (b) The Health Data Task Force shall be composed of the | 24 |
| following members: the Director of Public Health or his or her | 25 |
| designee; the Director of Children and Family Services or his | 26 |
| or her designee; the Director of Central Management Services or |
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| his or her designee; the Secretary of Human Services or his or | 2 |
| her designee; the State Superintendent of Education or his or | 3 |
| her designee; and a maximum of 20 public members appointed by | 4 |
| the Governor including, but not be limited to, representatives | 5 |
| of health care provider organizations, local health | 6 |
| departments, minority health organizations, and other users | 7 |
| and providers of public health data. | 8 |
| (c) The Task Force members shall serve without | 9 |
| compensation, but public members shall be reimbursed for their | 10 |
| reasonable travel expenses incurred in performing their duties | 11 |
| in connection with the Task Force. | 12 |
| (d) The Department of Public Health shall be the primary | 13 |
| agency in providing staff and administrative support to the | 14 |
| Task Force. The other State agencies represented on the Task | 15 |
| Force shall work cooperatively with the Department of Public | 16 |
| Health to provide administrative support to the Task Force. | 17 |
| (e) Within 90 days after the effective date of this | 18 |
| amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, the Department of | 19 |
| Public Health may contract with an independent vendor that has | 20 |
| expertise in public health data management, analysis, and | 21 |
| information systems. In addition, the Department may contract | 22 |
| with a vendor to provide the task force with logistical and | 23 |
| process support in the development of the plan to create a | 24 |
| linked health data system. | 25 |
| (f) The Task Force shall submit its plan to the Governor | 26 |
| and to the General Assembly no later than December 31, 2008.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 2 |
| becoming law.".
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