Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Board of Trustees of Northeastern Illinois University for its FY 16 ordinary and contingent expenses.
Thanks and honors Honey Jacobs Skinner for her tireless and successful advocacy on behalf of the public interest and on behalf of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and congratulates her on the occasion of her retirement as Strategic Advisor and Consultant to Lurie Children's.
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning kidney transplantation coverage for noncitizens with end-stage renal disease, restricts coverage to persons receiving emergency renal dialysis services covered by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services prior to January 1, 2015. Effective immediately.
Amends the General Assembly Organization Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the deposit of books, bills, documents, and papers with the Secretary of State.
Congratulates Laurette Kittler on the occasion of being inducted into St. Benedict School's Hall of Fame.
Amends the Personal Information Protection Act. Expands the scope of information to be protected to include medical, health insurance, biometric, consumer marketing, and geolocation information. Requires notice of breaches of security to be provided to the Attorney General. Requires privacy policies to be posted.
Creates the Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities Act. Provides that, subject to certain conditions, a resident of a facility licensed under the ID/DD Community Care Act or the Nursing Home Care Act shall be permitted to use an audio or video surveillance system in his or her room at his or her expense. Requires the electronic monitoring device to be placed in a conspicuously visible location in the room. Requires the Department of Public Health to establish a program to distribute up to $50,000 in funds, disbursed by lottery, each year to certain residents for the purchase and installation of electronic monitoring devices. Establishes criminal penalties for a person or entity that knowingly hampers, obstructs, tampers with, or destroys an electronic monitoring device. Provides that it is a business offense for a facility to discriminate or retaliate against a resident or prospective resident for consenting to the electronic monitoring. Provides that it is a petty offense for a facility to prevent the installation of an electronic monitoring device by a resident who has provided the facility with the consent required by certain provisions of the Act. Contains provisions concerning: resident consent to monitoring; facility accommodation of electronic monitoring; notice of electronic monitoring to visitors; limitations on facility access to recordings; the admissibility of recordings in civil, criminal, and administrative actions; facility reporting; and rulemaking.
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "bail bond".
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that accessibility improvements made to residential property shall not increase the assessed valuation of the property. Provides that the term "accessibility improvement" means a modification or addition to residential property that is designed to make the property more accessible to a disabled person, including, but not limited to, the installation of ramps, lifts, or fixtures or the removal of architectural barriers on the property. Effective immediately.
Creates the Right to Try Act. Provides that an eligible patient with a terminal illness who has considered all other treatment options approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration may acquire from a manufacturer an investigational drug, biological product, or device that has successfully completed Phase I of a clinical trial, but has not been approved for general use by the United States Food and Drug Administration. Provides that a manufacturer may, but is not required to, provide an investigational drug, biological product, or device to an eligible patient, either with or without receiving compensation. Provides that an accident and health insurer may, but is not required to, provide coverage for an eligible patient seeking such a drug, product, or device. Contains a penalty provision. Defines required terms. Contains legislative findings. Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation may not revoke, suspend, place on probation, reprimand, refuse to issue or renew, or take any other disciplinary or non-disciplinary action against the license or permit of a physician to practice medicine based solely on the physician's recommendation to an eligible patient regarding, or prescription for, or treatment with an investigational drug, biological product, or device.
