Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. With regard to a health care professional or health care provider offered a contract by an insurer, health maintenance organization, independent practice association, or physician hospital organization, provides that the insurer, health maintenance organization, independent practice association, physician hospital organization, or preferred provider organization shall provide health care professional applicants who are denied participation in any panel of in-network health care professionals with a specific reason for the denial. Provides that any participating health care professional must be provided 60 days' notice and an opportunity to initiate corrective action prior to the initiation of any attempts to terminate or otherwise remove the health care professional from a panel of in-network health care professionals and that the required notice shall include specific reasons for the proposed termination or removal. Provides that any participating health care professional terminated or removed from an in-network panel by his or her own written request must be provided an opportunity to appeal the decision. Provides that immediate written notice may be provided without 60 days' notice when a health care professional's license has been disciplined by a State licensing or disciplinary board.
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Congratulates the members of Shiloh Baptist Church on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the church's founding.
Congratulates Dr. Dirk Rosenberg on receiving the "2014 Rural Physician of Excellence Award" from the Illinois Rural Health Association.
Congratulates Dr. Jennifer Maneja on the occasion of receiving the 2014 Rural Physician of Excellence Award from the Illinois Rural Health Association.
Congratulates the owners and staff of the Mt. Carmel Daily Republican Register on the occasion of the paper's 175th anniversary.
Amends the Emergency Telephone System Act. Provides that an entity that installs or operates a private business switch service shall install and operate that service such that when a user dials the digits "9-1-1" the emergency call can be connected to the 9-1-1 system without first dialing any number or set of numbers. Sets forth penalties for failing to comply with the requirements of this amendatory Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that the term "public works" does not include work done for purposes of soil and water conservation, whether or not done under public supervision or paid for wholly or in part out of public funds, and performed directly by an owner or person who has legal control on agricultural lands. Effective immediately.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Creates an abatement for property that (i) is used exclusively for commercial or industrial purposes and (ii) has been rebuilt following a natural disaster occurring in taxable year 2013 or any taxable year thereafter. Effective immediately.
Amends the Local Government Debt Reform Act. Provides that the approval of bonds authorized to be issued under the Counties Code and approved by Jackson County voters in a 1994 referendum, of which less than $200,000 were issued, and for which the purpose of the bonds is flooding prevention, shall remain approved for 25 years after the date of the referendum. Effective immediately.
Congratulates Tyra Buss for her academic and athletic accomplishments while enrolled at Mt. Carmel High School in Mt. Carmel.