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Sen. Dan Kotowski
Filed: 3/7/2013
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1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1226
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2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1226 by replacing |
3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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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 2310-665 as follows: |
7 | | (20 ILCS 2310/2310-665 new) |
8 | | Sec. 2310-665. Sudden, unexpected death in epilepsy |
9 | | awareness program. The General Assembly finds and declares |
10 | | that: |
11 | | (1) Sudden, unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a |
12 | | condition in which typically young or middle-aged |
13 | | individuals with epilepsy die without a clear cause and is |
14 | | generally defined by the medical community as a sudden, |
15 | | unexpected, non-traumatic, non-drowning death in an |
16 | | otherwise healthy individual with epilepsy, where the |