Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Public Health, in cooperation with the Illinois Association of Public Health Administrators, must revise the methodology governing the purpose and distribution of local health protection grants. Contains provisions concerning the considerations the Department must take into account in revising the methodology. Provides that the revised methodology must include criteria, standards, and procedures for allocating local health protection grants on a regional basis. Provides that the revised methodology must be published in the Illinois Register as a proposed rule on a timely basis so that the rule will be adopted and effective July 1, 2004.
Sen. Sara Feigenholtz
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Amends the Drug Paraphernalia Control Act and the Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act. Authorizes a person who is at least 18 years of age to purchase up to 20 sterile hypodermic syringes or needles at a pharmacy without a prescription. Authorizes a pharmacist to sell up to 20 sterile hypodermic syringes or needles to a person who is at least 18 years of age. Provides that the Illinois Department of Public Health must develop educational materials regarding safer injection, HIV prevention, syringe disposal, and drug treatment and make copies of those materials available to pharmacists. Provides that pharmacists must make those educational materials available to persons who purchase syringes. Repeals the Section in the Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act requiring a person who sells a syringe, needle, or instrument to keep a record of the sale. Effective immediately.
Amends the Health Care Worker Background Check Act. Provides that no health care employer shall knowingly hire, employ, or retain an individual in a position with duties involving direct access to (rather than direct care for) clients, patients, or residents who have been convicted of committing or attempting to commit specified offenses. Provides that to do so is a business offense. Provides that an employee that willfully provides false, incomplete, or intentionally misleading information with regard to being hired by a health care employer is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
Creates the Ephedra Prohibition Act. Prohibits the sale of any dietary supplement containing any quantity of ephedra or ephedrine alkaloids. Exempts from that prohibition the sale of any product that receives explicit approval by the Secretary of Health and Human Services as safe and effective for its intended use or is lawfully marketed under an over-the-counter monograph issued by the United States Food and Drug Administration. Provides that a person is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for a first-time violation of the Act and a Class 3 felony for a subsequent violation. Effective immediately.
Amends provisions of the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act concerning a local public entity's duty to maintain its property in a reasonably safe condition for intended and permitted users. Provides that a person riding a bicycle is deemed to be an intended and permitted user of a roadway, except in the case of roadways upon which the use of bicycles is prohibited and the prohibition is indicated by appropriate signage.
Amends the Adoption Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning jurisdiction and venue.
Appropriates $5,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Disaster Relief Fund for public health emergencies, as provided under the Illinois Emergency Management Act. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Makes technical changes to the short title Section.
Creates the Purchase of Care and Grant Adjustment Act. Provides that purchase of care contracts and grant agreements entered into between specified agencies and a private community-based contractual provider or grantee must provide for annual adjustments in accordance with the non-seasonally-adjusted Employment Cost Index for total compensation for civilian workers compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Creates the Lieutenant Governor Act. Contains only a short title provision.