Amends the Counties Code. Provides that in a county that maintains a countywide map through a Geographic Information System (GIS), a charge may be added to specified filing fees in order to defray the cost of providing automated access, in addition to electronic access, to the county's GIS or property records (now, records). Amends the Tuberculosis Sanitarium District Act. Provides that upon dissolution of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium District, monetary assets of the District deposited into a special fund may be used for the prevention, care, treatment, and control of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases in or associated with suburban Cook County. Amends the Animal Control Act. Provides that amounts from the Animal Control Fund may be used to aid in costs incurred for enforcement of the Act or any county or municipal ordinance relating to public health and public nuisances, in addition to animal control. Effective immediately.
Sen. Don Harmon
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Urges Congress to develop the 2013 Farm Bill with a strong Title IV that protects and strengthens federal food and nutrition programs.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section defining the offense of vehicular hijacking.
Creates the Telehealth Act. Provides that telehealth services consist of (1) the provision of services and the mode of delivering health care services, including, but not limited to, primary care, counseling, psychiatry, emergency care, and specialty care and public health services via information and communication technologies, including, but not limited to, remote patient monitoring, to facilitate the examination, assessment, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management, and self-management of a patient's health care while the patient is at the originating site and the health care provider is at a distant site and (2) as it relates to the delivery of health care, mental health care, or substance use disorder treatment, the use of interactive audio, video, or other telecommunications or electronic technology by a health care provider to deliver a health care service within the scope of practice of the health care provider from the distant site to the originating site at which the patient is located. Sets forth the requirements for the delivery of telehealth services and telepsychiatry services. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code, the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the School Code, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, the Limited Health Service Organization Act, and the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act to provide that health care plans and policies must provide coverage for telehealth services, including primary care, counseling, psychiatry, emergency care, and specialty care as set forth in the Illinois Insurance Code and as otherwise set forth in the Telehealth Act. Sets forth requirements concerning the coverage of telehealth services.
Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
Creates the Illinois Energy Act of 2013. Contains only a short title provision.
Amends the Grade A Pasteurized Milk and Milk Products Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the nomination of candidates for the General Assembly.