410 ILCS 22/75

(410 ILCS 22/75)

(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)

Sec. 75. Reporting requirements.

(a) Within 45 days after the effective date of this Act, the Department shall create and post to its website an Attending Physician Checklist Form and Attending Physician Follow-Up Form to facilitate collection of the information described in this Section. Failure to create or post the Attending Physician Checklist Form, the Attending Physician Follow-Up Form, or both shall not suspend the effective date of this Act.

(b) Within 30 calendar days of providing a prescription for medication pursuant to this Act, the attending physician shall submit to the Department an Attending Physician Checklist Form with the following information:

(1) the qualifying patient's name and date of birth;

(2) the qualifying patient's terminal diagnosis and prognosis;

(3) notice that the requirements under this Act were completed; and

(4) notice that medication has been prescribed pursuant to this Act.

(c) Within 60 calendar days of notification of a qualified patient's death from self-administration of medication prescribed pursuant to this Act, the attending physician shall submit to the Department, an Attending Physician Follow-Up Form with the following information:

(1) the qualified patient's name and date of birth;

(2) the date of the qualified patient's death; and

(3) a notation of whether the qualified patient was enrolled in hospice services at the time of the qualified patient's death.

(d) The information collected shall be confidential and shall be collected in a manner that protects the privacy of the patient, the patient's family, and any health care professional involved with the patient under the provisions of this Act. The information shall be privileged and strictly confidential, and shall not be disclosed, discoverable, or compelled to be produced in any civil, criminal, administrative, or other proceeding.

(e) One year after the effective date of this Act, and each year thereafter, the Department shall create and post on its website a public statistical report of nonidentifying information. The report shall be limited to:

(1) the number of prescriptions for medication written pursuant to this Act;

(2) the number of physicians who wrote prescriptions for medication pursuant to this Act;

(3) the number of qualified patients who died following self-administration of medication prescribed and dispensed pursuant to this Act; and

(4) the number of people who died due to using an aid-in-dying drug, with demographic percentages organized by the following characteristics as aggregated and de-identified data sets:

(A) age at death;

(B) education level;

(C) race;

(D) gender;

(E) type of insurance, including whether the patient had insurance;

(F) underlying illness; and

(G) enrollment in hospice.

(f) Except as otherwise required by law, the information collected by the Department is not a public record, is not available for public inspection, and is not available through the Freedom of Information Act.

(g) Willful failure or refusal to timely submit records required under this Act may result in disciplinary action.

(Source: P.A. 104-441, eff. 9-12-26.)