Bill Text: IL HB4122 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Hospital Basic Services Preservation Act. Provides for the dissolution of the Hospital Basic Services Review Board. Provides that the Health Facilities and Services Review Board shall succeed to all of the powers, duties, rights, and property, including contractual rights and obligations, of the Hospital Basic Services Review Board. Makes conforming and other changes.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-01-04 - Referred to Assignments [HB4122 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4122-Engrossed.html

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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:
(20 ILCS 4050/7 rep.)
Section 5. The Hospital Basic Services Preservation Act is
amended by repealing Section 7.
Section 10. The Hospital Basic Services Preservation Act is
amended by changing Section 15 and by adding Section 7.5 as
follows:
(20 ILCS 4050/7.5 new)
Sec. 7.5. Dissolution of Hospital Basic Services Review
Board; transfer provisions.
(a) The Hospital Basic Services Review Board is dissolved.
The Health Facilities and Services Review Board shall succeed
to all of the powers, duties, rights, and property, including
contractual rights and obligations, of the Hospital Basic
Services Review Board. Rules, procedures, and decisions of the
Hospital Basic Services Review Board in effect at the time of
its dissolution shall be deemed to be those of the Health
Facilities and Services Review Board. Matters pending before
the Hospital Basic Services Review Board at the time of its
dissolution shall continue as matters before the Health

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Facilities and Services Review Board. The Health Facilities and
Services Review Board shall be deemed successor in interest to
the Hospital Basic Services Review Board for the purposes of
any pending litigation.
(b) Any remaining appropriations available for use by the
Hospital Basic Services Review Board at the time of its
dissolution may be expended by the Health Facilities and
Services Review Board.
(c) Persons employed by the Hospital Basic Services Review
Board on the date of its dissolution shall thereupon become
employees of the Health Facilities and Services Review Board
without loss of seniority or accrued benefits.
(20 ILCS 4050/15)
(For Act Repeal see Section 30)
Sec. 15. Basic services loans.
(a) Essential community hospitals seeking
collateralization of loans under this Act must apply to the
Health Facilities and Services Review Board on a form
prescribed by the Health Facilities and Services Review Board
by rule. The Health Facilities and Services Review Board shall
review the application and, if it approves the applicant's
plan, shall forward the application and its approval to the
Hospital Basic Services Review Board.
(b) Upon review receipt of the applicant's application and
approval from the Health Facilities and Services Review Board,

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the Health Facilities and Services Review Board Hospital Basic
Services Review Board shall request from the applicant and the
applicant shall submit to the Health Facilities and Services
Review Board Hospital Basic Services Review Board all of the
following information:
(1) A copy of the hospital's last audited financial
statement.
(2) The percentage of the hospital's patients each year
who are Medicaid patients.
(3) The percentage of the hospital's patients each year
who are Medicare patients.
(4) The percentage of the hospital's patients each year
who are uninsured.
(5) The percentage of services provided by the hospital
each year for which the hospital expected payment but for
which no payment was received.
(6) Any other information required by the Health
Facilities and Services Review Board Hospital Basic
Services Review Board by rule.
The Health Facilities and Services Review Board Hospital Basic
Services Review Board shall review the applicant's original
application, the approval of the Health Facilities and Services
Review Board, and the information provided by the applicant to
the Health Facilities and Services Review Board Hospital Basic
Services Review Board under this Section and make a
recommendation to the State Treasurer to accept or deny the

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application.
(c) If the Health Facilities and Services Review Board
Hospital Basic Services Review Board recommends that the
application be accepted, the State Treasurer may collateralize
the applicant's basic service loan for eligible expenses
related to completing, attaining, or upgrading basic services,
including, but not limited to, delivery, installation, staff
training, and other eligible expenses as defined by the State
Treasurer by rule. The total cost for any one project to be
undertaken by the applicants shall not exceed $10,000,000 and
the amount of each basic services loan collateralized under
this Act shall not exceed $5,000,000. Expenditures related to
basic service loans shall not exceed the amount available in
the Fund necessary to collateralize the loans. The terms of any
basic services loan collateralized under this Act must be
approved by the State Treasurer in accordance with standards
established by the State Treasurer by rule.
(Source: P.A. 96-31, eff. 6-30-09.)