Full Text of SB2012 95th General Assembly
SB2012eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning public health.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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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 2310-76 as follows: | 7 |
| (20 ILCS 2310/2310-76 new) | 8 |
| Sec. 2310-76. Chronic Disease Prevention and Health | 9 |
| Promotion Task Force. | 10 |
| (a) In Illinois, as well as in other parts of the United | 11 |
| States, chronic diseases are a significant health and economic | 12 |
| problem for our citizens and State government. Chronic diseases | 13 |
| such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and | 14 |
| arthritis are largely preventable non-communicable conditions | 15 |
| associated with risk factors such as poor nutrition, physical | 16 |
| inactivity, tobacco or alcohol abuse, as well as other social | 17 |
| determinants of chronic illness. | 18 |
| Chronic diseases can take away a person's quality of life | 19 |
| or his or her ability to work. The Centers for Disease Control | 20 |
| and Prevention reports that 7 out of 10 Americans who die each | 21 |
| year, or more than 1.7 million people, die of a chronic | 22 |
| disease. In Illinois, studies have indicated that during the | 23 |
| study period the State has spent more than $12.5 billion in |
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| health care dollars to treat chronic diseases in our State. The | 2 |
| financial burden for Illinois from the impact of lost work days | 3 |
| and lower employee productivity during the same time period | 4 |
| related to chronic diseases resulted in an annual economic loss | 5 |
| of $43.6 billion. These same studies have concluded that | 6 |
| improvements in preventing and managing chronic diseases could | 7 |
| drastically reduce future costs associated with chronic | 8 |
| disease in Illinois and that the most effective way to trim | 9 |
| healthcare spending in Illinois and across the U.S. is to take | 10 |
| measures aimed at preventing diseases before we have to treat | 11 |
| them. Health promotion and prevention programs and activities | 12 |
| are scattered throughout a number of State agencies with | 13 |
| various streams of funding and little coordination. While the | 14 |
| State has been looking at making significant changes to | 15 |
| healthcare coverage for a portion of the population, in order | 16 |
| to have the most effective impact, any changes to the | 17 |
| healthcare delivery system in Illinois should take into | 18 |
| consideration and integrate the role of prevention and health | 19 |
| promotion in that system. | 20 |
| (b) Within 90 days after the effective date of this | 21 |
| amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, a Task Force on | 22 |
| Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion shall be | 23 |
| convened to study and make recommendations regarding the | 24 |
| structure of the chronic disease prevention and health | 25 |
| promotion system in Illinois, as well as changes that should be | 26 |
| made to the system in order to integrate and coordinate efforts |
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| in the State and ensure continuity and consistency of purpose | 2 |
| in the delivery of this care in Illinois. | 3 |
| (c) The Department of Public Health shall have primary | 4 |
| responsibility for, and shall provide staffing and technical | 5 |
| and administrative support for the Task Force in its efforts. | 6 |
| The other State agencies represented on the Task Force shall | 7 |
| work cooperatively with the Department of Public Health to | 8 |
| provide administrative and technical support to the Task Force | 9 |
| in its efforts. Membership of the Task Force shall consist of | 10 |
| 18 members as follows: the Director of Public Health or his or | 11 |
| her designee; the Secretary of Human Services or his or her | 12 |
| designee; the Director of Aging or his or her designee; the | 13 |
| Director of Healthcare and Family Services or his designee; 4 | 14 |
| members of the General Assembly, one from the State Senate | 15 |
| appointed by the President of the Senate, one from the State | 16 |
| Senate appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate, one from | 17 |
| the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the | 18 |
| House, and one from the House of Representatives appointed by | 19 |
| the Minority Leader of the House; and 10 members appointed by | 20 |
| the Director of Public Health and who shall be representative | 21 |
| of State associations and advocacy organizations with a primary | 22 |
| focus that includes chronic disease prevention, public health | 23 |
| delivery, medicine, health care and disease management, or | 24 |
| community health. | 25 |
| (d) The Task Force shall seek input from interested parties | 26 |
| and shall hold a minimum of 3 public hearings across the State, |
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| including one in northern Illinois, one in central Illinois, | 2 |
| and one in southern Illinois. | 3 |
| (e) On or before July 1, 2010, the Task Force shall, at a | 4 |
| minimum, make recommendations to the Governor and the General | 5 |
| Assembly on the following: reforming the delivery system for | 6 |
| chronic disease prevention and health promotion in Illinois; | 7 |
| ensuring adequate funding for infrastructure and delivery of | 8 |
| programs; and the role of health promotion and chronic disease | 9 |
| prevention in support of State spending on health care.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 11 |
| becoming law.
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