Bill Text: IL HB2998 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act. Directs the Department of Public Health to study current and potential uses of electronic monitoring and recording for the purpose of preventing and identifying abuse and neglect within assisted living establishments. Requires the Department to report its findings to the General Assembly and Governor. Provides that, if the Department determines, after conducting its study, that the benefits of monitoring within assisted living establishments outweigh the costs of that monitoring, then the Department may adopt rules requiring the installation and use of electronic monitoring and recording within assisted living establishments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 16-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2998 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB2998-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2998 Introduced , by Rep. Charles Meier SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 9/79 new
Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act. Directs the Department of Public Health to study current and potential uses of electronic monitoring and recording for the purpose of preventing and identifying abuse and neglect within assisted living establishments. Requires the Department to report its findings to the General Assembly and Governor. Provides that, if the Department determines, after conducting its study, that the benefits of monitoring within assisted living establishments outweigh the costs of that monitoring, then the Department may adopt rules requiring the installation and use of electronic monitoring and recording within assisted living establishments.
LRB103 28872 CPF 55258 b
A BILL FOR
HB2998 LRB103 28872 CPF 55258 b
AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act is
amended by adding Section 79 as follows:
(210 ILCS 9/79 new)
Sec. 79. Monitoring by surveillance cameras. The
Department shall study current and potential uses of
electronic monitoring and recording for the purpose of
preventing and identifying abuse and neglect within assisted
living establishments. By no later than one year after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General
Assembly, the Department shall report to the General Assembly
and the Governor the findings of its study and recommendations
regarding the feasibility of increasing utilization of
electronic monitoring and recording for purposes of preventing
and identifying abuse and neglect at assisted living
establishments. If the Department determines, after conducting
the study, that the benefits of monitoring within assisted
living establishments outweigh the costs of that monitoring,
then the Department may adopt rules requiring the installation
and use of electronic monitoring and recording within assisted
living establishments.