SB0119 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB104 06117 RLC 16150 b

104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB0119

Introduced 1/17/2025, by Sen. Karina Villa

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

410 ILCS 320/1	from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4801
410 ILCS 320/2	from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4802

Amends the Prenatal Syphilis Act. Provides that every appropriate health care professional (rather than physician or other person) attending in a professional capacity a pregnant woman in Illinois shall test every pregnant person (rather than take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such woman) at the time of the first examination and shall perform a second test (rather than shall take or cause to be taken a second sample of blood) during the third trimester of pregnancy, between 27 through 32 weeks of gestation. Deletes certain references to serological tests. Provides that reports of births and still births shall be made by appropriate health care professionals (rather than by physicians or other persons).

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning health.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Prenatal Syphilis Act is amended by changing Sections 1 and 2 as follows:

(410 ILCS 320/1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4801)

Sec. 1. Every appropriate health care professional physician, or other person, attending in a professional capacity a pregnant woman in Illinois, shall test every pregnant person take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such woman at the time of the first examination, and a second time sample of blood shall be taken or caused to be taken during the third trimester of pregnancy, between 27 through 32 weeks of gestation. The These blood specimens collected shall be submitted to a laboratory approved by the Department of Public Health for a serological test for syphilis approved by the State Department of Public Health. In the event that a any such blood test shall show a positive or doubtful result an additional test or tests shall be made. The Such serological test or tests shall, upon request of any provider physician, be made free of charge by the State Department of Public Health or the Health Departments of cities, villages, and incorporated towns maintaining laboratories for the testing of blood specimens of any woman who resides in that city, village, or incorporated town.

The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any woman who objects to such serological tests on the grounds that such tests are contrary to her religious beliefs and practices.

(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

(410 ILCS 320/2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4802)

Sec. 2. In reporting every birth or still birth, appropriate health care professionals physicians and others required to make such reports shall state on the birth certificate or still birth certificate, as the case may be, whether a blood test for syphilis has been made upon a specimen of blood taken from the woman who bore the child for which a birth or still birth certificate is filed, together with the date when the blood specimen was taken and the name of the laboratory making the test. In no event shall the birth or still birth certificate state the result of the test.

(Source: Laws 1939, p. 708.)