Bill Text: IL HB1267 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the School Code, the Illinois Insurance Code, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, and the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act. Provides that an individual or group policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan must provide coverage for intravenous feeding. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement by the State.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB1267 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB1267-Amended.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1267
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1267, AS AMENDED, | ||||||
| 3 | with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No. | ||||||
| 4 | 1 as follows:
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| 5 | on page 6, by replacing lines 1 through 10 with the following:
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| 6 | "(215 ILCS 5/356z.19 new)
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| 7 | Sec. 356z.19. Nutritional support and hydration. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) The General Assembly finds that people who are | ||||||
| 9 | physically unable to swallow, digest, or absorb food and fluids | ||||||
| 10 | taken by mouth are at risk of malnutrition and dehydration. | ||||||
| 11 | Without nutritional support and hydration, such individuals | ||||||
| 12 | will become increasingly weakened. As their immune system | ||||||
| 13 | functioning is reduced, they may die from infections before | ||||||
| 14 | death can occur from malnutrition or dehydration. | ||||||
| 15 | (b) A group or individual policy of
accident and health | ||||||
| 16 | insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued,
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| 1 | renewed after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | ||||||
| 2 | 97th General
Assembly must provide coverage for intravenous | ||||||
| 3 | feeding and for enteral or tube feeding. The benefits under
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| 4 | this Section shall be at least as favorable as for other | ||||||
| 5 | coverages under the
policy and may be subject to the same | ||||||
| 6 | dollar amount limits, deductibles, and
co-insurance | ||||||
| 7 | requirements applicable generally to other coverages under the
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| 8 | policy. | ||||||
| 9 | (c) For the purpose of this Section, "enteral or tube | ||||||
| 10 | feeding" means the process by which nutritional formulas are | ||||||
| 11 | delivered via a tube into the digestive tract.".
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