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| AN ACT concerning health.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency |
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| Treatment Act is amended by changing Sections 2 and 2.1 and by |
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| adding Section 8.5 as follows:
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| (410 ILCS 70/2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 87-2)
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| Sec. 2. Hospitals to furnish emergency service. Every |
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| hospital
required to be licensed by the Department of Public
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| Health pursuant to
the Hospital Licensing Act, approved July 1, |
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| 1953, as now or hereafter
amended, which provides general |
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| medical and surgical hospital services
shall provide emergency |
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| hospital service, in accordance with rules and
regulations |
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| adopted by the Department of Public Health,
to all alleged
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| sexual assault survivors who apply for such hospital emergency |
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| services in
relation to injuries or trauma resulting from the |
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| sexual assault.
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| In addition every such hospital, regardless of whether or |
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| not a request
is made for reimbursement, except hospitals |
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| participating in community
or area wide plans in compliance |
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| with Section 4 of this Act, shall submit
to the Department of |
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| Public Health a plan to provide
hospital emergency
services to |
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| alleged sexual assault survivors which
shall be made available |
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| by such hospital.
Such plan shall be submitted within 60 days |
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| of receipt of the
Department's request for this plan, to the |
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| Department of Public Health for approval prior to such plan |
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| becoming effective. The
Department of Public Health shall |
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| approve such plan for
emergency service
to alleged sexual |
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| assault survivors if it finds that the implementation of
the |
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| proposed plan would provide adequate hospital emergency |
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| service for
alleged sexual assault survivors and provide |
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| sufficient protections from the
risk of pregnancy by sexual |