Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the city council of a municipality may not adopt an ordinance or resolution selling the right to use or profit from a municipal asset, including, but not limited to, water resources, without first conducting a public hearing followed by a referendum approving the sale at the election next following the public hearing.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
Amends the Fair Patient Billing Act. Provides that if a hospital bills a patient $50,000 or more for health care services in a period of 72 hours, the hospital shall provide with its bill copies of the electronic records used to generate all charges and shall further itemize any item and make electronic copies of the patient's charts available at the patient's request within 5 days of billing or the date of request, whichever is later. Provides that hospitals must return calls made by patients within 5 calendar days of receipt of the patient request for amounts billed in excess of $50,000.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section regarding Medicaid co-payments.
Amends the Local Food, Farms, and Jobs Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Department of Children and Family Services for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022: General Funds $1,324,643,600; Other State Funds; $467,597,900; Federal Funds; $14,178,267; Total $1,806,419,767.
Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Public Health to publish current workplace COVID-19 data on the COVID-19 portal of the Department's website. Provides that the published data shall serve as an accountability apparatus for companies that hire a majority of low-wage, immigrant workers and that do not follow COVID-19 protection protocols. Requires the Department to continue to publish the information until new COVID-19 cases decrease by 50% over a 3-week period and the percent of COVID-19 positivity in Illinois is less than 5% for 2 consecutive weeks. Provides that an employer of 50 persons or more shall report each week to the Department each case of COVID-19 contracted by the employer's employees if 3 employees or more contract COVID-19 in that week. Provides that an employer who does not report to the Department as required is subject to a civil administrative penalty of $100 for every required weekly report that is not reported. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Universities Retirement System for its FY22 ordinary and contingent expenses.
Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section creating the civil administrative agencies.
Amends the Adult Protective Services Act. Provides that any person may report information about the suspicious death of an eligible adult to an agency designated to receive such reports under the Act or to the Department on Aging. Provides that if a mandated reporter has reason to believe that the death of an eligible adult may be the result of abuse or neglect, the matter shall be reported to an agency designated to receive such reports under the Act or to the Department for subsequent referral to the appropriate law enforcement agency and the coroner or medical examiner. Prohibits an employer from discriminating against any employee who reports information about the suspicious death of an eligible adult in accordance with the Act. Provides that any mandated reporter who is required under the Act to report a suspicious death due to abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation shall testify fully in any administrative hearing resulting from such report. Provides that a referral to law enforcement may be made after a report of a suspicious death, depending upon the circumstances. Provides that all records concerning reports of suspicious deaths due to abuse, neglect, financial exploitation, or self-neglect and all records generated as a result of such reports shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed, with some exceptions. Effective January 1, 2022.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning construction of the Code.
Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that, on or after July 1, 2020, any hospital system consisting of 3 or more hospitals with combined revenues that exceed $500,000,000 that closes a hospital that serves an impoverished area shall repay the specified hospital access payments received by the closing hospital in the 24 months prior to closing. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall determine the amount to be repaid and send a notice to the closing hospital within 14 days after notification of closing to the Department. Requires that the funds be divided evenly and paid to the other safety net hospitals in the closing hospital's 15-mile radius by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services and used by the remaining safety net hospitals to assist in maintaining the local area health care needs. Defines "impoverished area". Provides for repeal of the provisions on January 1, 2022. Effective immediately.
