FAMILY & EMPL HEALTH CARE-TECH

Creates the Illinois Family and Employers Health Care Act. Creates the Illinois Guaranteed Option Act to establish a program to make health insurance plans and HMOs affordable and accessible to small employers and individuals. Creates the Illinois Health Care Justice Commission Act; creates the Commission to oversee healthcare system reforms. Creates the Illinois Guaranteed Option Premium Assistance Program Act to provide private health insurance premium assistance. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code to make changes including creating the Office of Patient Protection within the Division of Insurance of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Creates the Community Health Center Construction Act to establish a program of grants for various purposes. Creates the Illinois Shared Responsibility and Shared Opportunity Assessment Act; imposes on employers a tax on the wages paid to Illinois full-time equivalent employees; makes the tax applicable to wages paid on or after January 1, 2010, and requires payment of the tax beginning July 1, 2010.