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92_HB5314

 
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 1        AN ACT relating to State employee benefits.

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

 4        Section 5.  The State Employees Group  Insurance  Act  of
 5    1971 is amended by changing Section 15.1 as follows:

 6        (5 ILCS 375/15.1) (from Ch. 127, par. 535.1)
 7        Sec.  15.1.   Optometric  services.  Every  group  health
 8    insurance   program   or  self-insurance  health  plan  which
 9    provides coverage for services coming within the practice  of
10    optometry  as defined in the Illinois Optometric Practice Act
11    of 1987, as now or hereafter amended, shall provide  to  each
12    member  a  written  notice  that  such  member  may elect for
13    optometric services received to be  reimbursed  to  either  a
14    physician  licensed  to practice medicine in all its branches
15    or to an optometrist licensed in this State.
16        This Section applies only to persons who  become  covered
17    by such group insurance program or self-insurance health plan
18    after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1979.
19    (Source: P.A. 85-1440.)

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