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SB0109 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  

 


 
101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB0109

 

Introduced 1/23/2019, by Sen. Terry Link

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
210 ILCS 32/5

    Amends the Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities Act. Includes in the definition of "facility" a facility that provides housing to individuals with dementia. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Authorized Electronic Monitoring in
5Long-Term Care Facilities Act is amended by changing Section 5
6as follows:
 
7    (210 ILCS 32/5)
8    Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
9    "Authorized electronic monitoring" means the placement and
10use of an electronic monitoring device by a resident in his or
11her room in accordance with this Act.
12    "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
13    "Electronic monitoring device" means a surveillance
14instrument with a fixed position video camera or an audio
15recording device, or a combination thereof, that is installed
16in a resident's room under the provisions of this Act and
17broadcasts or records activity or sounds occurring in the room.
18    "Facility" means an intermediate care facility for the
19developmentally disabled licensed under the ID/DD Community
20Care Act that has 30 beds or more, a facility licensed under
21the MC/DD Act, or a long-term care facility licensed under the
22Nursing Home Care Act, or a facility that provides housing to
23individuals with dementia, as defined in Section 3 of the

 

 

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1Alzheimer's Disease Assistance Act.
2    "Resident" means a person residing in a facility.
3    "Resident's representative" has the meaning given to that
4term in (1) Section 1-123 of the Nursing Home Care Act if the
5resident resides in a facility licensed under the Nursing Home
6Care Act, (2) Section 1-123 of the ID/DD Community Care Act if
7the resident resides in a facility licensed under the ID/DD
8Community Care Act, or (3) Section 1-123 of the MC/DD Act if
9the resident resides in a facility licensed under the MC/DD
10Act.
11(Source: P.A. 99-430, eff. 1-1-16; 99-784, eff. 1-1-17.)
 
12    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
13becoming law.