Amends the Limited Liability Company Act. Provides that a low-profit limited liability company may be organized for religious, scientific, and literary purposes, for the purpose of fostering amateur sports competition, and for the purpose of preventing cruelty to children or animals.
Amends the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and Dependency Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the powers, duties, and functions vested in the Department of Human Services.
Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act and the Hospital Emergency Service Act. Provides that rehabilitation hospitals and psychiatric hospitals, along with long-term acute care hospitals, are hospitals that are not required to provide hospital emergency services. Amends the Hospital Licensing Act and the State Finance Act. Requires a license fee to be submitted with an application for a license to operate a hospital. Creates the Hospital Licensure Fund as a special fund in the State treasury to provide funding for the administration of the licensure program and patient safety and quality initiatives for the hospitals, including, without limitation, the implementation of the Illinois Adverse Health Care Events Reporting Law of 2005. Sets forth the sources of funding and permissible disbursements for the Fund. Amends the Illinois Adverse Health Care Event Reporting Law of 2005. Defines "adverse health care event" as an event identified as a serious reportable event by the National Quality Forum on the effective date of the amendatory Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall adopt, by rule, the list of adverse health care events, and provides that if the National Quality Forum revises its list of serious reportable events, then the term "adverse health care event" shall be similarly revised. Removes language concerning certain reportable events. Provides that if the adverse health care events are revised, the Department of Public Health shall notify all affected health care facilities promptly. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the "Medicaid" Article.
Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section of the campaign finance Article concerning definitions.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the State Board of Education.
Urges Congress to adopt a constitutional amendment reversing the Citizens United v. FEC ruling and related cases by clarifying that corporations and other artificial entities are not people with constitutional rights, and that money is property, not speech, and therefore can be regulated.
Amends the State Finance Act to create the Depakote Settlement Fund as a special fund in the State Treasury. Provides that all moneys paid to the State pursuant to (1) the Final Consent Judgment entered in the case of The People of the State of Illinois v. Abbott Laboratories and (2) the Settlement Agreement entered in the case of United States v. Abbott Laboratories, as well as any other moneys as provided by law, shall be deposited into the Fund. Provides that moneys deposited in the Depakote Settlement Fund may be appropriated to provide community services for persons with serious mental illness. Provides that funds appropriated from the Depakote Settlement Fund shall not replace, but are in addition to, any existing funding of community services for persons with serious mental illness. Effective immediately.
