IDPH-LOCAL HLTH PROTECT GRANTS

Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Public Health, in cooperation with the Illinois Association of Public Health Administrators, must revise the methodology governing the purpose and distribution of local health protection grants. Contains provisions concerning the considerations the Department must take into account in revising the methodology. Provides that the revised methodology must include criteria, standards, and procedures for allocating local health protection grants on a regional basis. Provides that the revised methodology must be published in the Illinois Register as a proposed rule on a timely basis so that the rule will be adopted and effective July 1, 2004.