Bill Text: IL SB1803 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: Amends the Department of Natural Resources (Conservation) Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources shall coordinate with the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Public Health, and members of the University of Illinois' INHS Medical Entomology Program to establish the Lyme Disease Innovation Program no later than one year after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Provides that the Department shall contract with a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to raise awareness of tick-borne diseases with the public and the medical community to operate the Program. Provides that the Program's purpose is to raise awareness with the public and to assist persons at risk of Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases with education and awareness materials and campaigns while developing evidence-based approaches that are cost-effective. Includes provisions relating to the Program's objectives. Provides that the Program shall be funded by the Lyme Disease Awareness Fund. Amends the Recreational Trails of Illinois Act. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources shall issue to an off-highway vehicle owner an Off-Highway Vehicle Usage Stamp, and the Stamp shall be $10 or $5 depending on the size of the vehicle's engine capacity. Provides that the proceeds from the Stamp must be deposited into the Lyme Disease Awareness Fund. Makes a conforming change. Amends the State Finance Act to make a conforming change. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-08-11 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0557 [SB1803 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB1803-Chaptered.html
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| Public Act 103-0557 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning State government.
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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 Department of Natural Resources | ||||
(Conservation) Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of | ||||
Illinois is amended by adding Section 805-72 as follows:
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(20 ILCS 805/805-72 new) | ||||
Sec. 805-72. Lyme Disease Innovation Program. | ||||
(a) The Department shall consult with the Department of | ||||
Agriculture, the Department of Public Health, and members of | ||||
the University of Illinois' INHS Medical Entomology Program to | ||||
establish the Lyme Disease Innovation Program no later than | ||||
one year after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | ||||
103rd General Assembly. The Department shall contract with an | ||||
Illinois not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to raise | ||||
awareness of tick-borne diseases with the public and the | ||||
medical community to operate the Program. The Program's | ||||
purpose is to raise awareness with the public and to assist | ||||
persons at risk of Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases | ||||
with education and awareness materials and campaigns while | ||||
developing evidence-based approaches that are cost-effective. | ||||
(b) The Program shall implement a statewide interagency | ||||
and multipronged approach to combat Lyme disease and other | ||||
tick-borne diseases in Illinois, including adopting an | ||
evidence-based model that recognizes the key roles that | ||
patients, advocates, and not-for-profit organizations have in | ||
fighting Lyme disease and tick-borne diseases. The Program's | ||
objectives include issuing grants, subject to the approval of | ||
the Department, to State agencies and Illinois not-for profit | ||
organizations from moneys in the Lyme Disease Awareness Fund, | ||
which is hereby established as a special fund in the State | ||
treasury, and other appropriations for the following purposes: | ||
(1) Bringing awareness of Lyme disease and tick-borne | ||
diseases by any one or more of the following methods: | ||
(A) creating innovative ideas and collaborations | ||
for raising awareness about risks and prevention; | ||
(B) amplifying and improving access to essential | ||
information supporting innovations in prevention, | ||
education, and care with open data and science; | ||
(C) fostering the development of new, | ||
community-based education and prevention efforts; and | ||
(D) using programs, website advertising, | ||
pamphlets, or other methods to increase the awareness | ||
of Lyme disease and tick-borne diseases; | ||
(2) Engaging stakeholders to facilitate | ||
patient-centered innovations by (i) building trust among | ||
stakeholders through listening sessions, roundtables, and | ||
other learning approaches that ground innovations in lived | ||
experience, (ii) engaging stakeholders in identifying | ||
current areas of need to promote targeted innovations that | ||
will make real-world improvements in quality of care, and | ||
(iii) gaining insight into patient needs and priorities | ||
through stakeholders' collective wisdom and applying that | ||
wisdom in shaping future innovation challenges and events. | ||
(3) Advancing stakeholder driven interdisciplinary and | ||
interagency collaborations by providing resources to | ||
not-for-profit organizations whose purpose is to raise | ||
awareness of tick-borne diseases with the public and the | ||
medical community in order to (i) facilitate the | ||
stakeholder engagement and collaborations and | ||
patient-centered innovations and support groups, (ii) | ||
identify ways to better collect and share data while | ||
raising awareness of tick-borne illnesses, and (iii) | ||
assist with the development of outreach and education | ||
materials and approaches for State agencies. | ||
(4) The University of Illinois' INHS Medical | ||
Entomology Program maintaining a passive tick and | ||
tick-borne pathogen surveillance program, based on ticks | ||
contributed by the Illinois public, and including tick | ||
identifications and disease-agent testing of a subset of | ||
identified ticks; compiling evidence and conducting | ||
research on tick bite prevention and risk of tick and | ||
tick-borne pathogen exposure; and providing evidence, | ||
results, and analysis and insight from both the passive | ||
surveillance program, on tick species and tick-borne | ||
disease-agent distributions and diversity in the State, | ||
and its related research on tick bite exposure and | ||
prevention, to support the Lyme Disease Innovation Program | ||
objectives. | ||
(c) The Program shall be funded through moneys deposited | ||
into the Lyme Disease Awareness Fund and other appropriations. | ||
The not-for-profit organization contracted with to operate the | ||
Program shall be paid, subject to the approval of the | ||
Department, for its operation of the Program from moneys | ||
deposited into the Fund or from other appropriations. | ||
The University of Illinois' Prairie Research Institute | ||
shall be paid, subject to the approval of the Department, for | ||
the INHS Medical Entomology Program's operation of a passive | ||
tick surveillance and research program from moneys deposited | ||
into the Fund or from other appropriations. | ||
(d) The Department must adopt rules to implement this | ||
Section. | ||
(e) The requirements of this Section are subject to | ||
appropriation by the General Assembly being made to the | ||
Department to implement the requirements.
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Section 90. The State Finance Act is amended by adding | ||
Section 5.990 as follows:
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(30 ILCS 105/5.990 new) | ||
Sec. 5.990. The Lyme Disease Awareness Fund.
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