Bill Text: IL HB3088 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning optometric services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3088 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB3088-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB3088 Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. Tom Cross SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 375/15.1 from Ch. 127, par. 535.1
Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning optometric services.
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A BILL FOR
HB3088 LRB096 09830 RPM 19993 b
AN ACT concerning government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971
is amended by changing Section 15.1 as follows:
(5 ILCS 375/15.1) (from Ch. 127, par. 535.1)
Sec. 15.1. Every group health insurance program or
self-insurance health plan which provides coverage for
services coming within the the practice of optometry as defined
in the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987, as now or
hereafter amended, shall provide to each member a written
notice that such member may elect for optometric services
received to be reimbursed to either a physician licensed to
practice medicine in all its branches or to an optometrist
licensed in this State.
This Section applies only to persons who become covered by
such group insurance program or self-insurance health plan
after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1979.
(Source: P.A. 85-1440.)