Bill Text: IL SB3172 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention Act. Includes nursing homes and hospitals in the definition of "health care workplace". Effective January 1, 2021.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3172 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SB3172-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,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Act is amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
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6 | (405 ILCS 90/10) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act: | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | "Department" means (i) the Department of Human Services, in | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | the case of a health care workplace that is operated or | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | regulated by the Department of Human Services, or (ii) the | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | Department of Public Health, in the case of a health care | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | workplace that is operated or regulated by the Department of | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | Public Health. | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | "Director" means the Secretary of Human Services or the | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | Director of Public Health, as appropriate. | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | "Employee" means any individual who is employed on a | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | full-time, part-time, or contractual basis by a health care | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | workplace. | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | "Health care workplace" means a mental health facility or | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | developmental disability facility as defined in the Mental | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | Health and Developmental Disabilities Code , a nursing home , or | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | other than a hospital or unit thereof licensed under the | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | Hospital Licensing Act or operated under the University of |
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1 | Illinois Hospital Act. "Health care workplace" does not | ||||||
2 | include, and shall not be construed to include, any office of a | ||||||
3 | physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, an | ||||||
4 | advanced practice registered nurse, or a physician assistant, | ||||||
5 | regardless of the form of such office. | ||||||
6 | "Imminent danger" means a preliminary determination of | ||||||
7 | immediate, threatened, or impending risk of physical injury as | ||||||
8 | determined by the employee. | ||||||
9 | "Responsible agency" means the State agency that (i) | ||||||
10 | licenses, certifies, registers, or otherwise regulates or | ||||||
11 | exercises jurisdiction over a health care workplace or a health | ||||||
12 | care workplace's activities or (ii) contracts with a health | ||||||
13 | care workplace for the delivery of health care services.
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14 | "Violence" or "violent act" means any act by a patient or | ||||||
15 | resident that causes or threatens to cause an injury to another | ||||||
16 | person.
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17 | (Source: P.A. 100-513, eff. 1-1-18 .)
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18 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | ||||||
19 | 1, 2021.
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