Bill Text: IL HB4603 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department shall develop a comprehensive licensing and registration process for sites that test for COVID-19. Provides that after developing the comprehensive licensing and registration process, the Department shall require that sites that test for COVID-19 be licensed and registered by the Department. Requires the Department of Public Health to recommend new standards for labs that test for COVID-19 and have opened since 2021. Requires the Department to ensure that it maintains an adequately staffed hotline to receive complaints about COVID-19 testing sites and labs. Contains provisions concerning standards for the timeliness of test results; methods of contacting patients; reporting; and penalties. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-04 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Joyce Mason [HB4603 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB4603-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB4603 Introduced , by Rep. Fred Crespo SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 2310/2310-413 new
Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department shall develop a comprehensive licensing and registration process for sites that test for COVID-19. Provides that after developing the comprehensive licensing and registration process, the Department shall require that sites that test for COVID-19 be licensed and registered by the Department. Requires the Department of Public Health to recommend new standards for labs that test for COVID-19 and have opened since 2021. Requires the Department to ensure that it maintains an adequately staffed hotline to receive complaints about COVID-19 testing sites and labs. Contains provisions concerning standards for the timeliness of test results; methods of contacting patients; reporting; and penalties. Effective immediately.
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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 Department of Public Health Powers and
Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
amended by adding Section 2310-413 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2310/2310-413 new)
Sec. 2310-413. COVID-19 testing site standards and
licensing.
(a) The Department shall develop a comprehensive licensing
and registration process for sites that test for COVID-19.
After developing the comprehensive licensing and registration
process, the Department shall require that sites that test for
COVID-19 be licensed and registered by the Department.
(b) The Department shall recommend new standards for labs
that test for COVID-19 and have opened since 2021. The
Department shall ensure that its recommendations do not
overregulate established labs that test other samples.
(c) The Department shall set standards for the timeliness
of test results for all COVID-19 testing methods provided by
sites that test for COVID-19, including polymerase chain
reaction (PCR) and rapid antigen tests. The Department shall
establish a time limit on how long test results may take to be

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delivered to patients.
(d) The Department shall set standards for how sites that
test for COVID-19 contact patients with results from those
tests. The Department shall require that COVID-19 testing
sites notify and provide, by phone, text, email, letter, or a
secure website login, the results of a test to each person
tested for COVID-19, regardless of whether the test is
positive or negative for COVID-19.
(e) The Department shall ensure that it maintains an
adequately staffed hotline to receive complaints about
COVID-19 testing sites and labs.
(f) The Department shall require sites that test for
COVID-19 to report the number of patients tested who did not
have insurance coverage.
(g) The Department shall seek a recommendation from the
Office of the Attorney General on the penalty for a site that
tests for COVID-19 that charges or sends a patient an invoice
after a test when the test is either covered by the patient's
insurance plan or under the federal Health Resources and
Services Administration's HRSA COVID-19 Coverage Assistance
Fund.
(h) The Department shall adopt rules to implement this
Section.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.