Designates the date of May 4, 2016 as Illinois Epilepsy Advocacy Day in the State of Illinois.
Sen. Sara Feigenholtz
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Congratulates Mark D. Deaton on 25 years as Executive Director of the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys.
Congratulates Ann and Bernard Kaplan on their 50th wedding anniversary.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Board of Trustees of Northeastern Illinois University for its FY 16 ordinary and contingent expenses.
Amends the General Assembly Organization Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the deposit of books, bills, documents, and papers with the Secretary of State.
Recognizes Sandra Bruce on her 35 years of hospital executive experience.
Creates the Hepatitis C Screening Act. Provides that every individual born between the years of 1945 and 1965 who receives health services from a hospital as an inpatient or in the emergency department of a hospital or who receives primary care services in an outpatient department of a hospital or who receives health services from a health care practitioner providing primary care shall be offered a hepatitis C-related test, unless the health care practitioner providing the services reasonably believes that certain conditions are present. Effective January 1, 2016.
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Defines the terms and provides procedures under which children are eligible to receive funds for an Individual Care Grant (ICG) for residential placement due to their mental illness, including alternative in-home or community services in lieu of residential placement, when clinically appropriate. Supersedes Department of Human Services rules.
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. In provisions that prohibit liquor distributors and manufacturers from giving, and retail licensees from receiving, anything of value, provides that a manufacturer, distributor or importing distributor may furnish free social media advertising to a person having a retail license if the social media advertisement does not contain the retail price of any alcoholic liquor. Defines "social media". Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Yoshi Katsumura of Chicago.