Creates the Patient Safety Act. Creates the Patient Safety Authority that, among other duties, works with medical facilities and the Department of Public Health to reduce the number and severity of serious events and incidents that occur at the facility and receives reports from health care workers regarding serious events. Provides funding for the Authority and the administration of the Act through a surcharge on the medical facilities' licensing fees, which shall be deposited into the Patient Safety Trust Fund, a special fund in the State treasury. Requires medical facilities to develop, implement, and comply with an internal patient safety plan, designate a patient safety officer, and establish a patient safety committee. Provides that a health care worker who reasonably believes that a serious event or incident has occurred shall report the serious event or incident according to the patient safety plan of the medical facility, unless the health care worker knows that a report has already been made. Requires that the medical facility notify the patient or a family member of the patient of a serious event. Contains other provisions. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Patient Safety Authority Trust Fund. Effective January 1, 2005.
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Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning legislative findings.
Provides that the Commission on Opportunity in State Public Construction shall deliver its report to the Governor and the General Assembly by January 12, 2005 (rather than June 30, 2004 as provided in Senate Joint Resolution 36).
Creates the Tobacco Products Distribution Limitation Act. Prohibits the sale of cigarettes in a pack of less than 20. Prohibits the distribution of free tobacco samples. Provides that a person who violates this Act is guilty of a petty offense.
Creates the Displaced Building Service Workers Protection Act. Provides protections to building service employees who are regularly assigned to a covered building on a full or part-time basis for at least 90 days immediately preceding a transition in employment and who perform work in connection with the care or maintenance of an existing building. Provides that a successor building owner, manager, or contractor shall be required to offer employment to the predecessor employer's incumbent building service employees, subject to the existence of cause, for a period of 90 days following the transition at the affected building. Provides that at the end of the 90 day transition period, the successor employer perform written performance evaluations and offer continued employment to all covered building service employees who receive satisfactory ratings. Excludes from coverage employees who earn more than $25 per hour, work less than 6 hours per week, or serve in a managerial, supervisory, or confidential capacity. Exempts from coverage those successor employers who are already or agree to become bound by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that includes provisions that address the discharge or lay off of building service employees. Exempts any predecessor employer that obtains a written commitment from a successor employer providing that the successor employer's building service employees will be covered by a collective bargaining agreement that addresses the discharge or layoff of employees. Effective immediately.
Urges support of legislation now being considered in Congress that opposes the policy of ethnic cleansing by the government of Sudan.
Creates a study committee to investigate and hold public hearings about the effects of U.S. trade policy on Illinois jobs and farms.
Mourns the death of Eloise Smith of Chicago, Illinois.
Mourns the death of Emelda Augustine "Patsy" Hilbring.
Creates the Energy Efficient Commercial Building Act. Establishes an Energy Efficient Commercial Building Code that applies to commercial buildings in this State. Provides for technical assistance to certain design professions to explain the requirements of the Code. Preempts home rule powers. Effective one year after becoming law.