Full Text of HB0002 101st 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 Medical Patient Rights Act is amended by | 5 | | adding Section 3.4 as follows: | 6 | | (410 ILCS 50/3.4 new) | 7 | | Sec. 3.4. Rights of women; pregnancy and childbirth. | 8 | | (a) In addition to any other right provided under this Act, | 9 | | every woman has the following rights with regard to pregnancy | 10 | | and childbirth: | 11 | | (1) The right to receive health care before, during, | 12 | | and after pregnancy and childbirth. | 13 | | (2) The right to receive care for her and her infant | 14 | | that is consistent with current scientific evidence about | 15 | | benefits and risks. | 16 | | (3) The right to choose a midwife or a physician as her | 17 | | maternity care provider. | 18 | | (4) The right to choose her birth setting from the full | 19 | | range of safe options available in her community on the | 20 | | basis of complete, objective information about the | 21 | | benefits, risks, and costs of those options. | 22 | | (5) The right to leave her maternity caregiver and | 23 | | select another if she becomes dissatisfied with her care. |
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| 1 | | (6) The right to receive information about the | 2 | | professional identity and qualifications of those involved | 3 | | with her care and to know when those involved are trainees. | 4 | | (7) The right to communicate with caregivers and | 5 | | receive all care in privacy, which may involve excluding | 6 | | nonessential personnel, and to have all personal | 7 | | information treated according to standards of | 8 | | confidentiality. | 9 | | (8) The right to receive maternity care that identifies | 10 | | and addresses social and behavioral factors that affect her | 11 | | health and that of her baby. | 12 | | (9) The right to full and clear information about | 13 | | benefits, risks, and costs of the procedures, drugs, tests, | 14 | | and treatments offered to her and of all other reasonable | 15 | | options, including no intervention. | 16 | | (10) The right to accept or refuse procedures, drugs, | 17 | | tests, and treatments, to have her choices honored, and to | 18 | | change her decision about accepting or refusing those | 19 | | procedures, drugs, tests, or treatment. | 20 | | (11) The right to be informed if her caregivers wish to | 21 | | enroll her or her infant in a research study, to receive | 22 | | full information about all known and possible benefits and | 23 | | risks of participation, and to decide whether to | 24 | | participate, free from coercion and without negative | 25 | | consequences. | 26 | | (12) The right to unrestricted access to all available |
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| 1 | | records about her pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum | 2 | | care, and infant; to obtain a full copy of these records; | 3 | | and to receive help in understanding them, if necessary. | 4 | | (13) The right to receive maternity care that is | 5 | | appropriate to her cultural and religious background and to | 6 | | receive information in a language in which she can | 7 | | communicate. | 8 | | (14) The right to have family members and friends of | 9 | | her choice present during all aspects of her maternity | 10 | | care. | 11 | | (15) The right to receive continuous social, | 12 | | emotional, and physical support during labor and birth from | 13 | | a caregiver who has been trained in labor support. | 14 | | (16) the right to receive full advance information | 15 | | about risks and benefits of all reasonably available | 16 | | methods for relieving pain during labor and birth, | 17 | | including methods that do not require the use of drugs; to | 18 | | choose which methods will be used; and to change her | 19 | | decision about using those methods at any time. | 20 | | (17) The right to freedom of movement during labor, | 21 | | unencumbered by tubes, wires, or other apparatuses and to | 22 | | give birth in the position of her choice. | 23 | | (18) The right to virtually uninterrupted contact with | 24 | | her newborn from the moment of birth if she and her baby | 25 | | are healthy and do not need care that requires separation. | 26 | | (19) The right to receive complete information about |
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| 1 | | the benefits of breastfeeding well in advance of labor, to | 2 | | refuse supplemental bottles and other actions that | 3 | | interfere with breastfeeding, and to have access to skilled | 4 | | lactation support for as long as she chooses to breastfeed. | 5 | | (20) The right to decide collaboratively with | 6 | | caregivers when she and her baby will leave the birth site | 7 | | for home, based on their conditions and circumstances. | 8 | | (21) The right to be treated with respect at all times | 9 | | before, during, and after pregnancy by her health care | 10 | | professionals and to have a health care professional that | 11 | | is culturally competent and treats her appropriately | 12 | | regardless of her ethnicity, sexual orientation, or | 13 | | religious background. | 14 | | (b) The Department of Public Health, Department of | 15 | | Healthcare and Family Services, Department of Children and | 16 | | Family Services, and Department of Human Services shall post | 17 | | information about these rights on their publicly available | 18 | | websites. Every health care provider, day care center licensed | 19 | | under the Child Care Act of 1969, Head Start, and community | 20 | | center shall post information about these rights in a prominent | 21 | | place and on their websites, if applicable. | 22 | | (c) The Department of Public Health shall adopt rules to | 23 | | implement this Section.
| 24 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 25 | | becoming law.
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