Bill Text: IL HB3121 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that, to ensure that foster parents who foster children with diabetes have the knowledge and tools they need to provide and advocate for their foster children's proper care, the Department of Children and Family Services shall provide eligible foster parents with training on diabetes care, including training on insulin pump therapy, general diabetes management, carbohydrate counting, how to administer insulin with an insulin pen or syringe, and how to identify the warning signs of low blood sugar and diabetic ketoacidosis. Grants the Department rulemaking authority.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3121 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3121-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3121 Introduced , by Rep. Jenn Ladisch Douglass SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 505/35.4 new
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that, to ensure that foster parents who foster children with diabetes have the knowledge and tools they need to provide and advocate for their foster children's proper care, the Department of Children and Family Services shall provide eligible foster parents with training on diabetes care, including training on insulin pump therapy, general diabetes management, carbohydrate counting, how to administer insulin with an insulin pen or syringe, and how to identify the warning signs of low blood sugar and diabetic ketoacidosis. Grants the Department rulemaking authority.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended
by adding Section 35.4 as follows:
(20 ILCS 505/35.4 new)
Sec. 35.4. Diabetes care training; foster parents. To
ensure that foster parents who foster children with diabetes
have the knowledge and tools they need to provide and advocate
for their foster children's proper care, the Department shall
provide eligible foster parents with training on diabetes
care, including training on insulin pump therapy, general
diabetes management, carbohydrate counting, how to administer
insulin with an insulin pen or syringe, and how to identify the
warning signs of low blood sugar and diabetic ketoacidosis.
The Department may adopt any rules necessary to implement this
Section.