Bill Text: IL HB2617 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Health Care Services Lien Act. Provides that notice must be provided, in the same manner as a notice of a judgment, award, settlement, or compromise would be provided, to a lien holder by an injured person or his or her authorized representative when a case is dismissed or a judgment is entered against the injured person.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB2617 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB2617-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 HB2617 Introduced , by Rep. Jil Tracy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
770 ILCS 23/15
Amends the Health Care Services Lien Act. Provides that notice must be provided, in the same manner as a notice of a judgment, award, settlement, or compromise would be provided, to a lien holder by an injured person or his or her authorized representative when a case is dismissed or a judgment is entered against the injured person.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning civil law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Health Care Services Lien Act is amended by
changing Section 15 as follows:
(770 ILCS 23/15)
Sec. 15. Notice of judgment or award or dismissal.
(a) A judgment, award, settlement, or compromise secured by
or on behalf of an injured person may not be satisfied without
the injured person or his or her authorized representative
first giving notice of the judgment, award, settlement, or
compromise to the health care professional or health care
provider that rendered a service in the treatment, care, or
maintenance of the injured person and that has served a lien
notice pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 10. The notice
shall be in writing and served upon the lien holder or, in the
case of a lien holder operated entirely by a unit of local
government, upon the individual or entity authorized to receive
service under Section 2-211 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(b) Notice must be provided to a lien holder by the injured
person or his or her authorized representative when a case is
dismissed or a judgment is entered against the injured person.
The notice shall be in writing and served on the lien holder in

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the same manner as provided under subsection (a) of this
Section.
(Source: P.A. 93-51, eff. 7-1-03.)