Bill Text: IL SB1405 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Authorizes a skilled nursing home, extended care facility, or intermediate care facility to prohibit an individual from visiting a resident or patient of the nursing home or facility if specific facts demonstrate that the individual would endanger his or her physical health or safety or the health or safety of a resident, patient, or health care worker of the nursing home or facility. Requires such a denial to be in writing and provided to the individual and the resident or patient with whom the individual was denied visitation. Requires each skilled nursing home, extended care facility, and intermediate care facility to inform each resident of the nursing home or facility (or that individual's representative) of the resident's visitation rights and the facility's visitation-related policies and procedures. Specifies that these nursing homes and facilities must not restrict, limit, or otherwise deny visitation privileges on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. Requires the nursing homes and facilities to ensure that all visitors enjoy full and equal visitation privileges, consistent with the residents' preferences.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 49-21)
Status: (Passed) 2022-05-27 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0989 [SB1405 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-SB1405-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Authorizes a skilled nursing home, extended care facility, or intermediate care facility to prohibit an individual from visiting a resident or patient of the nursing home or facility if specific facts demonstrate that the individual would endanger his or her physical health or safety or the health or safety of a resident, patient, or health care worker of the nursing home or facility. Requires such a denial to be in writing and provided to the individual and the resident or patient with whom the individual was denied visitation. Requires each skilled nursing home, extended care facility, and intermediate care facility to inform each resident of the nursing home or facility (or that individual's representative) of the resident's visitation rights and the facility's visitation-related policies and procedures. Specifies that these nursing homes and facilities must not restrict, limit, or otherwise deny visitation privileges on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. Requires the nursing homes and facilities to ensure that all visitors enjoy full and equal visitation privileges, consistent with the residents' preferences.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 49-21)
Status: (Passed) 2022-05-27 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0989 [SB1405 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-SB1405-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning health.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Community Mental Health Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 0.1 as follows:
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| 6 | (405 ILCS 20/0.1) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 300.1)
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| 7 | Sec. 0.1.
This Act shall be known and
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| 8 | the "Community Mental
Health Act". | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3457.)
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