Bill Text: IL HB0259 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Meat and Poultry Inspection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning medical certificates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-13 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0259 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB0259-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB0259 Introduced 1/20/2009, by Rep. David Reis SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 650/8 from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 308
Amends the Meat and Poultry Inspection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning medical certificates.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Meat and Poultry Inspection Act is amended
by changing Section 8 as follows:
(225 ILCS 650/8) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 308)
Sec. 8. Medical Certificate. The The licensee of a Type I
establishment shall require all employees in his establishment
to meet the health requirements established by the Illinois
Department of Public Health. The Director may at any time
require an employee of an establishment to submit to a health
examination by a physician. No person suffering from any
communicable disease, including any communicable skin disease,
and no person with infected wounds, and no person who is a
"carrier" of a communicable disease shall work in any capacity
in an establishment. No person shall work or be employed in or
about any establishment during the time in which a communicable
disease exists in the home in which such person resides unless
such person has obtained a certificate from the state or local
health authority to the effect that no danger of public
contagion or infection or adulteration of product will result
from the employment of such person in such establishment.
(Source: P.A. 91-170, eff. 1-1-00.)