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92_SB0445 LRB9206067SMdv 1 AN ACT concerning academic medicine. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Excellence in Academic Medicine Act is 5 amended by changing Sections 15, 20, 30, and 60 and by adding 6 Section 35 as follows: 7 (30 ILCS 775/15) 8 Sec. 15. Definitions. As used in this Act: 9 "Academic medical center hospital" means a hospital 10 located in Illinois which is either (i) under common 11 ownership with the college of medicine of a college or 12 university or (ii) a free-standing hospital in which the 13 majority of the clinical chiefs of service are department 14 chairmen in an affiliated medical school. 15 "Academic medical center children's hospital" means a 16 children's hospital which is separately incorporated and 17 non-integrated into the academic medical center hospital but 18 which is the pediatric partner for an academic medical center 19 hospital and which serves as the primary teaching hospital 20 for pediatrics for its affiliated medical school; children's 21 hospitals which are separately incorporated but integrated 22 into the academic medical center hospital are considered part 23 of the academic medical center hospital. 24 "Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic 25 medical center hospital" means an academic medical center 26 hospital located in the Chicago Medicare Metropolitan 27 Statistical Area. 28 "Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area 29 academic medical center hospital" means an academic medical 30 center hospital located outside the Chicago Medicare 31 Metropolitan Statistical Area. -2- LRB9206067SMdv 1 "Qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area 2 academic medical center hospital" means any Chicago Medicare 3 Metropolitan Statistical Area academic medical center 4 hospital that either directly or in connection with its 5 affiliated medical school receives in excess of $8,000,000 in 6 grants or contracts from the National Institutes of Health 7 during the calendar year preceding the beginning of the State 8 fiscal year; except that for the purposes of Section 25, the 9 term also includes the entity specified in subsection (e) of 10 that Section, and for the purposes of Section 30, the term 11 also includes the primary teaching hospitals for the 12 University of Illinois School of Medicine in the City of Park 13 Ridge and the Village of Oak Lawn. 14 "Qualified Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical 15 Area academic medical center hospital" means the primary 16 teaching hospital for the University of Illinois School of 17 Medicine at Peoria,andthe primary teaching hospital for the 18 University of Illinois School of Medicine at Rockford, the 19 primary teaching hospital for the University of Illinois 20 School of Medicine at Urbana,andthe primary teaching 21 hospitals for Southern Illinois University School of Medicine 22 in Springfield, and the primary teaching hospital for 23 Southern Illinois University School of Medicine at 24 Carbondale. 25 "Qualified academic medical center hospital" means (i) a 26 qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area 27 academic medical center hospital, (ii) a qualified 28 Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic 29 medical center hospital, or (iii) an academic medical center 30 children's hospital. 31 "Qualified programs" include: 32 (i) Thoracic Transplantation: heart and lung, in 33 particular; 34 (ii) Cancer: particularly biologic modifiers of -3- LRB9206067SMdv 1 tumor response, and mechanisms of drug resistance in 2 cancer therapy; 3 (iii) Shock/Burn: development of biological 4 alternatives to skin for grafting in burn injury, and 5 research in mechanisms of shock and tissue injury in 6 severe injury; 7 (iv) Abdominal transplantation: kidney, liver, 8 pancreas, and development of islet cell and small bowel 9 transplantation technologies; 10 (v) Minimally invasive surgery: particularly 11 laparoscopic surgery; 12 (vi) High performance medical computing: 13 telemedicine and teleradiology; 14 (vii) Transmyocardial laser revascularization: a 15 laser creates holes in heart muscles to allow new blood 16 flow; 17 (viii) Pet scanning: viewing how organs function 18 (CT and MRI only allow viewing of the structure of an 19 organ); 20 (ix) Strokes in the African-American community: 21 particularly risk factors for cerebral vascular accident 22 (strokes) in the African-American community at much 23 higher risk than the general population; 24 (x) Neurosurgery: particularly focusing on 25 interventional neuroradiology; 26 (xi) Comprehensive eye center: including further 27 development in pediatric eye trauma; 28 (xii) Cancers: particularly melanoma, head and 29 neck; 30 (xiii) Pediatric cancer; 31 (xiv) Invasive pediatric cardiology; 32 (xv) Pediatric organ transplantation: 33 transplantation of solid organs, marrow, and other stem 34 cells; and -4- LRB9206067SMdv 1 (xvi) Such other programs as may be identified. 2 (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.) 3 (30 ILCS 775/20) 4 Sec. 20. Establishment of Funds. 5 (a) The Medical Research and Development Fund is created 6 in the State Treasury to which the General Assembly may from 7 time to time appropriate funds and from which the Comptroller 8 shall pay amounts as authorized by law. 9 (i) The following accounts are created in the 10 Medical Research and Development Fund: The National 11 Institutes of Health Account; the Philanthropic Medical 12 Research Account; and the Market Medical Research 13 Account. 14 (ii) Funds appropriated to the Medical Research and 15 Development Fund shall be assigned in equal amounts to 16 each account within the Fund, subject to transferability 17 of funds under subsection (c) of Section 25. 18 (b) The Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Fund is created 19 in the State Treasury to which the General Assembly may from 20 time to time appropriate funds and from which the Comptroller 21 shall pay amounts as authorized by law. 22 (c) The Centers for Medical Research Fund is created in 23 the State treasury to which the General Assembly may from 24 time to time appropriate funds and from which the Comptroller 25 shall pay amounts as authorized by law. 26 (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.) 27 (30 ILCS 775/30) 28 Sec. 30. Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Program. The 29 State shall provide incentives to develop and enhance 30 post-tertiary clinical services. Qualified academic medical 31 center hospitals as defined in Section 15 may receive funding 32 under the Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Program for up to 3 -5- LRB9206067SMdv 1 qualified programs as defined in Section 15 in any given 2 year; however, qualified academic medical center hospitals 3 may receive continued funding for previously funded qualified 4 programs rather than receive funding for a new program so 5 long as the number of qualified programs receiving funding 6 does not exceed 3. Subject to the restrictions of Section 7 60, each qualified academic medical center hospital as 8 defined in Section 15 shall receive an equal percentage of 9 the Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Fund to be used in the 10 funding of qualified programs. One quarter of the amount 11 payable to each qualified academic medical center hospital 12 shall be paid on the fifteenth working day after July 1, 13 October 1, January 1, and March 1. 14 (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.) 15 (30 ILCS 775/35 new) 16 Sec. 35. The Centers for Medical Research Program. The 17 State shall provide financial incentives to encourage private 18 and federal funding for biomedical and biotech research. Any 19 hospital that is eligible to receive funds from either the 20 Medical Research and Development Fund or the Post-Tertiary 21 Clinical Services Fund shall receive a percentage of the 22 moneys available for distribution from the Centers for 23 Medical Research Fund, a special fund in the State treasury, 24 equal to that hospital's percentage of the total contracts 25 and grants awarded to all hospitals applying for this 26 Program. 27 (30 ILCS 775/60) 28 Sec. 60. Restriction on funds. No academic medical 29 center hospital shall be eligible for payments from the 30 Medical Research and Development Fund unless the academic 31 medical center hospital qualifies under Section 15 as a 32 qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area -6- LRB9206067SMdv 1 academic medical center hospital which in connection with its 2 affiliated medical school received at least $8,000,000 in the 3 preceding calendar year in grants or contracts from the 4 National Institutes of Health; except that this restriction 5 does not apply to the entity specified in subsection (e) of 6 Section 25. 7 Beginning with the State fiscal year beginning on July 1, 8 2001 and for each State fiscal year thereafter, the primary 9 teaching hospital for the University of Illinois School of 10 Medicine at Urbana, the primary teaching hospital for 11 Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and the primary 12 teaching hospitals for the University of Illinois School of 13 Medicine in the City of Park Ridge and the Village of Oak 14 Lawn are eligible for payments from the Post-Tertiary 15 Clinical Services Fund only with respect to amounts 16 appropriated in that State fiscal year by the General 17 Assembly above $11,800,000. The eligibility of these 18 hospitals, for the amounts from the Post-Tertiary Clinical 19 Services Fund above $11,800,000 is on an equal basis with all 20 other eligible academic medical center hospitals. 21 (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.) 22 Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by adding 23 Section 5.545 as follows: 24 (30 ILCS 105/5.545 new) 25 Sec. 5.545. The Centers for Medical Research Fund. 26 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 27 becoming law.