Full Text of HB4035 98th General Assembly
HB4035eng 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning health.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Health Statistics Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 4 as follows:
| 6 | | (410 ILCS 520/4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5604)
| 7 | | Sec. 4. (a) In carrying out the purposes of this Act, the | 8 | | Department may:
| 9 | | (1) Collect and maintain health data on:
| 10 | | (i) The extent, nature, and impact of illness, | 11 | | including factors relating to obesity and disability | 12 | | on the population
of the State;
| 13 | | (ii) The determinants of health and health hazards | 14 | | including obesity;
| 15 | | (iii) Health resources, including the extent of | 16 | | available manpower and resources;
| 17 | | (iv) Utilization of health care;
| 18 | | (v) Health care costs and financing; and
| 19 | | (vi) Other health or health-related matters ; and .
| 20 | | (vii) The connection between the long-term effects | 21 | | of childhood cancer and the original cancer diagnosis | 22 | | and treatment. | 23 | | (2) Undertake and support research, demonstrations, |
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| 1 | | and evaluations respecting
new or improved methods for | 2 | | obtaining current data on the matters referred
to in | 3 | | subparagraph (1).
| 4 | | (b) The Department may collect health data under authority | 5 | | granted by
any unit of local government and on behalf of other | 6 | | governmental or not-for-profit
organizations, including data | 7 | | collected by local schools and the State Board of Education | 8 | | relating to obesity on the health examination form required | 9 | | pursuant to Section 27-8.1 of the School Code. The data shall | 10 | | be de-identified and aggregated pursuant to rules promulgated | 11 | | by the Department to prevent disclosure of personal identifying | 12 | | information.
| 13 | | (c) The Department shall collect data only on a voluntary | 14 | | basis from individuals
and organizations, except when there is | 15 | | specific legal authority to compel
the mandatory reporting of | 16 | | the health data so requested. In making any collection
of | 17 | | health data from an individual or organization the Department | 18 | | must give
to such individual or organization a written | 19 | | statement which states:
| 20 | | (1) Whether the individual or organization is required | 21 | | to respond, and
any sanctions for noncompliance;
| 22 | | (2) The purposes for which the health data are being | 23 | | collected; and
| 24 | | (3) In the case of any disclosure of identifiable | 25 | | health data for other
than research and statistical | 26 | | purposes, the items to be disclosed, to whom
the data are |
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| 1 | | to be disclosed and the purposes for which the data are to | 2 | | be disclosed.
| 3 | | (d) Except as provided in Section 5, no health data | 4 | | obtained in the course
of activities undertaken or supported | 5 | | under this Act may be used for any purpose
other than the | 6 | | purpose for which they were supplied or for which the | 7 | | individual
or organization described in the data has otherwise | 8 | | consented.
| 9 | | (e) The Department shall take such actions as may be | 10 | | necessary to assure
that statistics developed under this Act | 11 | | are of high quality, timely, comprehensive,
as well as | 12 | | specific, standardized and adequately analyzed and indexed.
| 13 | | (f) The Department shall take such action as is appropriate | 14 | | to effect
the coordination of health data activities, including | 15 | | health data specifically relating to obesity collected | 16 | | pursuant to Section 27-8.1 of the School Code, within the State | 17 | | to eliminate
unnecessary duplication of data collection and | 18 | | maximize the usefulness of
data collected.
| 19 | | (g) The Department shall (1) participate with state, local | 20 | | and federal
agencies in the design and implementation of a | 21 | | cooperative system for producing
comparable and uniform health | 22 | | information and statistics at the federal,
state, and local | 23 | | levels; and (2) undertake and support research, development,
| 24 | | demonstrations, and evaluations respecting such cooperative | 25 | | system.
| 26 | | (Source: P.A. 93-966, eff. 1-1-05.)
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