Bill Text: IL HB1466 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning the purpose of the Act.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1466 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB1466-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB1466 Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Jack D. Franks SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 3960/2 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1152
Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning the purpose of the Act.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act is
amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
(20 ILCS 3960/2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1152)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2009)
Sec. 2. The The purpose of this Act is to establish a
procedure designed to reverse the trends of increasing costs of
health care resulting from unnecessary construction or
modification of health care facilities. Such procedure shall
represent an attempt by the State of Illinois to improve the
financial ability of the public to obtain necessary health
services, and to establish an orderly and comprehensive health
care delivery system which will guarantee the availability of
quality health care to the general public.
This Act shall establish a procedure (1) which requires a
person establishing, constructing or modifying a health care
facility, as herein defined, to have the qualifications,
background, character and financial resources to adequately
provide a proper service for the community; (2) that promotes
through the process of recognized local and areawide health
facilities planning, the orderly and economic development of

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health care facilities in the State of Illinois that avoids
unnecessary duplication of such facilities; (3) that promotes
planning for and development of health care facilities needed
for comprehensive health care especially in areas where the
health planning process has identified unmet needs; and (4)
that carries out these purposes in coordination with the Agency
and the comprehensive State health plan developed by that
Agency.
(Source: P.A. 80-941.)