Bill Text: IL SB3172 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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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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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB3172 Introduced 2/7/2020, by Sen. Steve Stadelman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
405 ILCS 90/10
Amends the Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention Act. Includes nursing homes and hospitals in the definition of "health care workplace". Effective January 1, 2021.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning health.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention
Act is amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
(405 ILCS 90/10)
Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
"Department" means (i) the Department of Human Services, in
the case of a health care workplace that is operated or
regulated by the Department of Human Services, or (ii) the
Department of Public Health, in the case of a health care
workplace that is operated or regulated by the Department of
Public Health.
"Director" means the Secretary of Human Services or the
Director of Public Health, as appropriate.
"Employee" means any individual who is employed on a
full-time, part-time, or contractual basis by a health care
workplace.
"Health care workplace" means a mental health facility or
developmental disability facility as defined in the Mental
Health and Developmental Disabilities Code, a nursing home, or
other than a hospital or unit thereof licensed under the
Hospital Licensing Act or operated under the University of

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Illinois Hospital Act. "Health care workplace" does not
include, and shall not be construed to include, any office of a
physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, an
advanced practice registered nurse, or a physician assistant,
regardless of the form of such office.
"Imminent danger" means a preliminary determination of
immediate, threatened, or impending risk of physical injury as
determined by the employee.
"Responsible agency" means the State agency that (i)
licenses, certifies, registers, or otherwise regulates or
exercises jurisdiction over a health care workplace or a health
care workplace's activities or (ii) contracts with a health
care workplace for the delivery of health care services.
"Violence" or "violent act" means any act by a patient or
resident that causes or threatens to cause an injury to another
person.
(Source: P.A. 100-513, eff. 1-1-18.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
1, 2021.