Bill Text: IL HR0141 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the Public Health Policy Task Force to prepare a report to the General Assembly on the State's public health policies and policymaking infrastructure.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HR0141 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HR0141-Introduced.html

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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Public health issues are of paramount importance
to the State and its units of local government; and
WHEREAS, Health disparities have a systemic and critical
impact on morbidity and mortality rates in communities
throughout the State; and
WHEREAS, The State is in need of a comprehensive review of
its public health policymaking and regulatory framework in
order to meet the needs of its diverse citizenry; and
WHEREAS, The State has the resources through its agencies,
public and private universities, and community-based
organizations to conduct a comprehensive review of its public
health policies and policymaking infrastructure; and
WHEREAS, Population health status and health services
needs unique to Illinois should be reflected in the research
and policy analysis work of researchers, planners, and policy
analysts; and
WHEREAS, The Community Engagement and Research Core is a
federally-funded component of the University of Illinois at
Chicago Center for Clinical and Translational Science, engaged

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in broad-based, action-oriented public health policy research
and dissemination; and
WHEREAS, This comprehensive review of the State's public
health policies and policymaking infrastructure is critical
and necessary in order to fully benefit from federal health
care reform, demonstrate additional efficiencies in the
delivery of health care services to those most in need, and
foster the relationship of public health to the larger
community in terms of human, physical, fiscal, and program
resources; and
WHEREAS, State policymakers will benefit from a
comprehensive and well-developed study of the State's public
health policies and policymaking infrastructure; therefore, be
it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
the Public Health Policy Task Force is hereby established to
prepare a comprehensive report to the General Assembly on the
State's public health policies and its public health
policymaking infrastructure that shall include an Illinois
policy agenda; and be it further
RESOLVED, That members of the Public Health Policy Task

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Force shall include representatives from the House Healthcare
and Health Disparities Committee; State agencies, including,
without limitation, the Department of Public Health, the
Department of Human Services, and the Department of Healthcare
and Family Services; the Office of the Governor; research
universities; relevant community-based organizations; and the
provider community; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Community Engagement and Research Core
housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago is designated
as the lead agency for administering the work of the Public
Health Policy Task Force; and be it further
RESOLVED, That members of the Public Health Policy Task
Force shall be recommended to the General Assembly by the
Chairman of the House Healthcare and Health Disparities
Committee, which recommendations shall be submitted to the
Governor for formal establishment of the Task Force; and be it
further
RESOLVED, That the Task Force shall hold subject-matter
hearings as necessary under the auspices of the House Health
Care and Health Disparities Committee and shall prepare a
report to be presented to members of the House Health Care and
Health Disparities Committee on or before December 31, 2011;
and be it further

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RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
presented to the directors of the Community Engagement and
Research Code.