Bill Text: IL HB5000 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act. Defines "infection control committee" and "infection preventionist". Provides that a person shall not be accepted for residency to an assisted living establishment or shared housing establishment if the person requires insertion, sterile irrigation, and replacement of catheter, except for routine maintenance of urinary catheters, unless the catheter care is self-administered or administered by a licensed health care professional or a nurse in compliance with education, certification, and training in catheter care or infection control by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with oversight from an infection preventionist or infection control committee. Requires an assisted living establishment or shared housing establishment that provides catheter care to one or more residents to designate at least one person as an Infection Prevention and Control Professional to develop and implement policies governing control of infections and communicable diseases. Makes other changes. Effective July 1, 2025.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Passed) 2024-08-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0844 [HB5000 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5000-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5000 Introduced , by Rep. Norine K. Hammond SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 9/75
Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act. Provides that a person shall not be accepted for residency if that person requires level 3 or level 4 sterile wound care unless care is self-administered or administered by a licensed health care professional. Removes the prohibition on accepting a person for residency if that person requires insertion, sterile irrigation, and replacement of catheter, except for routine maintenance of urinary catheters, unless the catheter care is self-administered or administered by a license health care professional.
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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 Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act is
amended by changing Section 75 as follows:
(210 ILCS 9/75)
Sec. 75. Residency requirements.
(a) No individual shall be accepted for residency or
remain in residence if the establishment cannot provide or
secure appropriate services, if the individual requires a
level of service or type of service for which the
establishment is not licensed or which the establishment does
not provide, or if the establishment does not have the staff
appropriate in numbers and with appropriate skill to provide
such services.
(b) Only adults may be accepted for residency.
(c) A person shall not be accepted for residency if:
(1) the person poses a serious threat to himself or
herself or to others;
(2) the person is not able to communicate his or her
needs and no resident representative residing in the
establishment, and with a prior relationship to the
person, has been appointed to direct the provision of

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services;
(3) the person requires total assistance with 2 or
more activities of daily living;
(4) the person requires the assistance of more than
one paid caregiver at any given time with an activity of
daily living;
(5) the person requires more than minimal assistance
in moving to a safe area in an emergency;
(6) the person has a severe mental illness, which for
the purposes of this Section means a condition that is
characterized by the presence of a major mental disorder
as classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) (American
Psychiatric Association, 1994), where the individual is a
person with a substantial disability due to mental illness
in the areas of self-maintenance, social functioning,
activities of community living and work skills, and the
disability specified is expected to be present for a
period of not less than one year, but does not mean
Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia based on
organic or physical disorders;
(7) the person requires intravenous therapy or
intravenous feedings unless self-administered or
administered by a qualified, licensed health care
professional;
(8) the person requires gastrostomy feedings unless

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self-administered or administered by a licensed health
care professional;
(9) (blank); the person requires insertion, sterile
irrigation, and replacement of catheter, except for
routine maintenance of urinary catheters, unless the
catheter care is self-administered or administered by a
licensed health care professional;
(10) the person requires level 3 or level 4 sterile
wound care unless care is self-administered or
administered by a licensed health care professional;
(11) (blank);
(12) the person is a diabetic requiring routine
insulin injections unless the injections are
self-administered or administered by a licensed health
care professional;
(13) the person requires treatment of stage 3 or stage
4 decubitus ulcers or exfoliative dermatitis;
(14) the person requires 5 or more skilled nursing
visits per week for conditions other than those listed in
items (13) and (15) of this subsection for a period of 3
consecutive weeks or more except when the course of
treatment is expected to extend beyond a 3 week period for
rehabilitative purposes and is certified as temporary by a
physician; or
(15) other reasons prescribed by the Department by
rule.

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(d) A resident with a condition listed in items (1)
through (15) of subsection (c) shall have his or her residency
terminated.
(e) Residency shall be terminated when services available
to the resident in the establishment are no longer adequate to
meet the needs of the resident. This provision shall not be
interpreted as limiting the authority of the Department to
require the residency termination of individuals.
(f) Subsection (d) of this Section shall not apply to
terminally ill residents who receive or would qualify for
hospice care and such care is coordinated by a hospice program
licensed under the Hospice Program Licensing Act or other
licensed health care professional employed by a licensed home
health agency and the establishment and all parties agree to
the continued residency.
(g) Items (3), (4), (5), and (9) of subsection (c) shall
not apply to a quadriplegic, paraplegic, or individual with
neuro-muscular diseases, such as muscular dystrophy and
multiple sclerosis, or other chronic diseases and conditions
as defined by rule if the individual is able to communicate his
or her needs and does not require assistance with complex
medical problems, and the establishment is able to accommodate
the individual's needs. The Department shall prescribe rules
pursuant to this Section that address special safety and
service needs of these individuals.
(h) For the purposes of items (7) through (10) of

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