Bill Text: IL HB5817 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall compile data on deaths or complications resulting from abortions if more than 5 deaths or complications result from abortions in a county or in the State. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall annually publish that data by State and county and make the data available to the public. Excludes from the data made available to the public personal identifying data.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-08 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5817 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB5817-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB5817 Introduced , by Rep. Barbara Wheeler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 510/10.1 from Ch. 38, par. 81-30.1
Amends the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall compile data on deaths or complications resulting from abortions if more than 5 deaths or complications result from abortions in a county or in the State. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall annually publish that data by State and county and make the data available to the public. Excludes from the data made available to the public personal identifying data.
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 is amended by
changing Section 10.1 as follows:
(720 ILCS 510/10.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 81-30.1)
Sec. 10.1. Reporting by physicians to the Department of
Public Health of complications and deaths resulting from an
abortion.
(a) Any physician who diagnoses a woman as having
complications resulting from an abortion or if the woman dies
as the result of an abortion shall report, within a reasonable
period of time, the diagnosis and a summary of her physical
symptoms to the Illinois Department of Public Health in
accordance with procedures and upon forms required by such
Department. The Department of Public Health shall define the
complications required to be reported by rule. The
complications defined by rule shall be those which, according
to contemporary medical standards, are manifested by symptoms
with severity equal to or greater than hemorrhaging requiring
transfusion, infection, incomplete abortion, or punctured
organs. If the physician making the diagnosis of a complication
knows the name or location of the facility where the abortion

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was performed, he shall report such information to the
Department of Public Health.
(b) The Department of Public Health shall compile data on
deaths or complications resulting from abortions if more than 5
deaths or complications result from abortions in a county or in
this State. The Department of Public Health shall annually
publish that data by State and county and make the data
available to the public. The data available to the public shall
not include:
(1) the names of the facilities that performed the
abortions;
(2) patient identification numbers;
(3) any set of information the amount of which that is
50 or fewer from which the identity of the person or
persons to whom it relates may be discerned;
(4) education of the persons who obtained the
abortions; and
(5) race and ethnicities of the persons who obtained
the abortions.
Any physician who intentionally violates this Section
shall be subject to revocation of his license pursuant to
paragraph (22) of Section 22 of the Medical Practice Act of
1987.
(Source: P.A. 85-1209.)