Creates the Comprehensive Healthcare Workforce Planning Act. Establishes the State Healthcare Workforce Council to provide an ongoing assessment of health care workforce trends, training issues, and financing policies and to recommend appropriate State government and private sector efforts to address identified needs. Provides that the Council's work shall focus on health care workforce supply and distribution; cultural competence and minority participation in health professions education; primary care training and practice; and data evaluation and analysis. Contains provisions concerning members; the preparation of a comprehensive healthcare workforce plan by the Department of Public Health and the Council; and reimbursement of Council members.
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Creates the School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act. Provides that the purpose of the Act is to allow schools to have access to life-saving emergency epinephrine auto-injectors if and when a student has an anaphylaxis reaction and to allow the school to have personnel trained to administer an emergency epinephrine auto-injector. Provides that a school district may provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to trained personnel, and trained personnel may utilize those epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical. Provides that each public and private elementary and secondary school in the State may make emergency epinephrine auto-injectors and trained personnel available at its school and may designate one or more school personnel to receive initial and annual refresher training. Sets forth provisions concerning trained personnel, minimum standards and training, school plan, and limitation of liability. Effective immediately.
Amends the Block Grants for Chicago Article of the School Code. Removes a provision that requires the educational services block grant to include the Bilingual Program. Effective July 1, 2011.
Amends the Children's Health Insurance Program Act, the Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance Act, and the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning on July 1, 2011, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall develop incentive programs for dentists who perform dental services on children covered under the Children's Health Insurance Program, the Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance Program, and the Medicaid program. Requires the incentive programs to include a pilot program in a rural and urban designated shortage area that increases rates up to 64% of the reimbursement level that the dentists charge for those services covered. Provides that the Department shall increase the rate level of dental specialty services that are provided to eligible children to equal 64% of the dentist's usual and customary charges. Requires the Department to develop and implement an incentive program that rewards dentists who are enrolled as a "dental home". Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that accident and health insurance policies that provide coverage for prescribed orally-administered cancer medications and intravenously administered or injected cancer medications shall ensure that the applicable financial requirements and treatment limitations are no more restrictive than the financial requirements and treatment limitations applied to intravenously administered or injected cancer medications that are covered by the policy. Provides that an insurer cannot achieve compliance with the coverage mandate by increasing financial requirements or imposing more restrictive treatment limitations on prescribed orally-administered cancer medications or intravenously administered or injected cancer medications covered under the policy. Effective immediately.
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall strive to guarantee that persons, including children, suffering from mental illness, substance abuse, and other behavioral disorders have access to locally accessible behavioral health care providers who have the ability to treat the person's conditions in a cost effective, outcome-based manner. Requires the Department to designate as essential community behavioral health care providers organizations that meet certain qualifications; promote the co-location of primary and behavioral health care services centers; and work towards reducing Illinois' underserved and health professional shortage areas. Contains provisions concerning fee-for-service compensation; term limits for essential community behavioral health care providers; and other matters. Effective immediately.
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Enhances the criminal penalty for persons who knowingly transmit a false report of child abuse or neglect to the Department of Children and Family Services. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Illinois State Police Federal Projects Trust Fund as a federal trust fund in the State treasury. Provides that the State Police Federal Projects Trust Fund is established to receive funds awarded to the Department of State Police from all federal departments and agencies for the specific purposes established by the terms and conditions of the federal awards. Requires that all interest earned by the investment or deposit of monies accumulated in the Trust Fund shall be deposited into the Trust Fund, except if the terms and conditions of the federal award otherwise provides. Amends the Illinois Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Act. Creates the State Police Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Trust Fund. Provides that moneys in the Trust Fund shall be used by the Department of State Police to make grants for motor vehicle theft prevention purposes.
Amends the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act, the Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act, the Hospital Licensing Act, and the State Finance Act. Increases the licensure fee to $1500 for ambulatory surgical treatment centers and home health agencies. Establishes a $50 licensure fee per bed for hospitals applying for a license. Changes the name of the Home Care Services Agency Licensure Fund to the Home Health, Health Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensure Fund. Creates the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Fund and the Hospital Licensure Fund. Further amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Includes the term "violation" in the provision concerning definitions. Sets forth provisions concerning penalties; determining penalties; inspection; emergency closure; whistleblower protection; and judicial review. Makes changes to the provisions concerning notice and hearing; inspections and investigations; informal dispute resolution; findings, conclusions, and citations; patient protection from abuse; Hospital Licensing Board creation and Department of Public Health rules; administrative decisions; and injunction and other relief. Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act to set forth a provision concerning an inter-agency agreement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.