(20 ILCS 5160/10-10)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on June 1, 2026)
    Sec. 10-10. Kidney Disease Prevention and Education Task Force.
    (a) There is hereby established the Kidney Disease Prevention and Education Task Force to work directly with educational institutions to create health education programs to increase awareness of and to examine chronic kidney disease, transplantations, living and deceased kidney donation, and the existing disparity in the rates of those afflicted between Caucasians and minorities.
    (b) The Task Force shall develop a sustainable plan to raise awareness about early detection, promote health equity, and reduce the burden of kidney disease throughout the State, which shall include an ongoing campaign that includes health education workshops and seminars, relevant research, and preventive screenings and that promotes social media campaigns and TV and radio commercials.
    (c) Membership of the Task Force shall be as follows:
        (1) one member of the Senate, appointed by the Senate
    
President, who shall serve as Co-Chair;
        (2) one member of the House of Representatives,
    
appointed by the Speaker of the House, who shall serve as Co-Chair;
        (3) one member of the House of Representatives,
    
appointed by the Minority Leader of the House;
        (4) one member of the Senate, appointed by the Senate
    
Minority Leader;
        (5) one member representing the Department of Public
    
Health, appointed by the Governor;
        (6) one member representing the Department of
    
Healthcare and Family Services, appointed by the Governor;
        (7) one member representing a medical center in a
    
county with a population of more 3 million residents, appointed by the Co-Chairs;
        (8) one member representing a physician's association
    
in a county with a population of more than 3 million residents, appointed by the Co-Chairs;
        (9) one member representing a not-for-profit organ
    
procurement organization, appointed by the Co-Chairs;
        (10) one member representing a national nonprofit
    
research kidney organization in the State of Illinois, appointed by the Co-Chairs;
        (11) the Secretary of State or his or her designee;
        (12) one member who is a dialysis patient, appointed
    
by the Co-Chairs;
        (13) one member who is a chronic kidney disease
    
patient, appointed by the Co-Chairs;
        (14) one member who is a kidney transplant recipient,
    
appointed by the Co-Chairs;
        (15) one member who is a representative of a program
    
working to break down barriers to transplant care in the African American community through access to education, resources, and transplant care, appointed by the Co-Chairs; and
        (16) one member who is a representative of a
    
nationwide, non-profit organization with membership for dialysis and pre-dialysis patients and their families, appointed by the Co-Chairs.
    (d) Members of the Task Force shall serve without compensation.
    (e) The Department of Public Health shall provide administrative support to the Task Force.
    (f) The Task Force shall submit its final report to the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2023 and, upon the filing of its final report, is dissolved.
(Source: P.A. 101-649, eff. 7-7-20; 102-671, eff. 11-30-21.)