Bill Text: IL HB3700 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Health and Wellness Impact Note Act. Requires the Department of Public Health to prepare health and wellness impact notes on bills introduced in the General Assembly.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3700 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3700-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3700 Introduced , by Rep. Camille Y. Lilly SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Health and Wellness Impact Note Act. Requires the Department of Public Health to prepare health and wellness impact notes on bills introduced in the General Assembly.
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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 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Health
and Wellness Impact Note Act.
Section 5. Applicability.
(a) Every bill the purpose or effect of which is to advance
mental, physical, or social well-being, except those making a
direct appropriation, shall have prepared for it, before
second reading in the chamber of introduction, a brief
explanatory statement or note that shall include a reliable
estimate of the anticipated impact.
(b) Every proposed rule of an agency, the purpose or
effect of which is to advance mental, physical, or social
well-being shall have prepared for it, before approval by the
Joint Committee on Administrative Rules pursuant to the
Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, a brief explanatory
statement or note that shall include a reliable estimate of
the anticipated impact. As used in this Act, "rule" and
"agency" have the same meanings as in the Illinois
Administrative Procedure Act.
(c) These statements or notes shall be known as Health and
Wellness Impact Notes.

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Section 10. Preparation.
(a) The sponsor of each bill to which Section 5 applies
shall present a copy of the bill, with the request for a Health
and Wellness Impact Note, to the Department of Public Health.
The Health and Wellness Impact Note shall be prepared by the
Department of Public Health and submitted to the sponsor of
the bill within 5 calendar days, except that whenever, because
of the complexity of the measure, additional time is required
for the preparation of the Health and Wellness Impact Note,
the Department of Public Health may inform the sponsor of the
bill, and the sponsor may approve an extension of the time
within which the note is to be submitted, not to extend,
however, beyond May 15, following the date of the request.
(b) The agency proposing a rule to which Section 5 applies
shall present a copy of the proposed rule, with the request for
a Health and Wellness Impact Note, to the Department of Public
Health. The Health and Wellness Impact Note shall be prepared
by the Department of Public Health and submitted to the agency
within 5 calendar days, except that whenever, because of the
complexity of the measure, additional time is required for the
preparation of the Health and Wellness Impact Note, the
Department of Public Health may inform the agency and the
agency may approve an extension of the time within which the
note is to be submitted.
(c) If, in the opinion of the Department of Public Health,

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there is insufficient information to prepare a reliable
estimate of the anticipated impact, a statement to that effect
can be filed and shall meet the requirements of this Act.
Section 15. Vote on the necessity of Health and Wellness
Impact Notes. Whenever the sponsor of any bill is of the
opinion that no Health and Wellness Impact Note is required,
any member of either chamber may request that a note be
obtained, and in that case, the applicability of this Act
shall be decided by the majority of those present and voting in
the chamber of which the sponsor is a member.
Section 20. Requisites and contents. The note shall be
factual in nature, as brief and concise as may be, and shall
provide a reliable estimate in dollars or other relevant
units, if possible, and shall include both the immediate
effect and, if determinable or reasonably foreseeable, the
long-range effect of the measure. If, after careful
investigation, it is determined that no dollar or other
relevant unit estimate is possible, the note shall contain a
statement to that effect setting forth the reasons why no such
estimate can be given.
Section 25. Comment or opinion; technical or mechanical
defects. No comment or opinion shall be included in the Health
and Wellness Impact Note with regard to the merits of the

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measure for which the Health and Wellness Impact Note is
prepared; however, technical or mechanical defects may be
noted.
Section 30. Appearance of State officials and employees in
support of or in opposition to measure. The fact that a Health
and Wellness Impact Note is prepared for any bill or proposed
rule shall not preclude or restrict the appearance before any
committee of the General Assembly, or before the Joint
Committee on Administrative Rules, of any official or
authorized employee of the Department of Public Health who
desires to be heard in support of or in opposition to the
measure.
Section 35. Amendment of bill necessitating statement of
effect of proposed amendment. Whenever any committee of either
chamber reports any bill with an amendment that will
substantially affect the information or conclusion stated in
the Health and Wellness Impact Note attached to the measure at
the time of its referral to the committee, there shall be
included with the report of the committee a statement of the
effect of the change proposed by the amendment reported if
desired by a majority of the committee. Whenever any bill is
amended on the floor of either chamber to substantially affect
the information or conclusion as stated in the Health and
Wellness Impact Note attached to the bill before the

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amendment, a majority of the members of that chamber may
propose that no action shall be taken on the amendment until
the sponsor of the amendment presents to the members a
statement of the impact on the advancement of mental,
physical, or social well-being of the proposed amendment.