Bill Text: IL SB1623 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: Amends the Pertussis Vaccine Act. Provides that parents or guardians and immediate family members of a newborn child in a neonatal intensive care unit shall be offered an opportunity to receive the pertussis vaccine to minimize the chances that the disease will be communicated to the newborn child. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-08-05 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0184 [SB1623 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB1623-Chaptered.html
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Public Act 098-0184 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning health.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Pertussis Vaccine Act is amended by changing | ||||
Section 4 as follows:
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(410 ILCS 235/4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7504)
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Sec. 4.
Every hospital in this State licensed under the | ||||
Hospital
Licensing Act or an Act in relation to the founding | ||||
and operation of the
University of Illinois Hospital, shall | ||||
provide the parents or guardians of
each newborn child the | ||||
pamphlet pursuant to Section 3 of this Act. Parents or | ||||
guardians of a newborn child in a neonatal intensive care unit | ||||
shall be informed about the importance of parents, guardians, | ||||
and immediate family members being immunized against pertussis | ||||
to minimize the chances that the disease will be communicated | ||||
to the newborn child and shall also be informed about where | ||||
they may obtain the appropriate vaccine.
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(Source: P.A. 85-898.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||
becoming law.
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