Bill Text: IL SB1577 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. In the list of provisions to be incorporated into hospital policies regarding the risk of injury to patients and nurses and other health care workers associated with the lifting, transferring, repositioning, or movement of a patient, includes (1) the primacy of maintaining patient dignity, self-determination, and choice and (2) consideration of the feasibility of incorporating patient handling equipment or the physical space and construction design needed to incorporate that equipment in conjunction with federal handling equipment or the physical space and construction design needed to incorporate that equipment and federal guidelines known as Access to Medical Care for Individuals With Mobility Disabilities. Makes other changes. Effective on January 1, 2012.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB1577 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-SB1577-Amended.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1577
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1577 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 1 as follows:
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| 6 | (210 ILCS 85/1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 142)
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| 7 | Sec. 1. This Act may be cited as the
the Hospital Licensing | ||||||
| 8 | Act. | ||||||
| 9 | (Source: Laws 1953, p. 811.)".
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