Bill Text: IL SB3184 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Cadaver Act. Creates the Cadaver Advisory Council and tasks it with creating and maintaining a document containing current embalming techniques, preservation practices, and air quality testing from universities within the State, as well as recommendations regarding the administration of an anatomical education program. Requires the document to be made available on the Department of Public Health's website and kept up to date by the Department as it is maintained by the Council. Provides that the Council shall meet at least every 6 months. Provides that the Director of Public Health shall serve as the Council's chairperson alongside other specified members, who shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary expenses from funds appropriated to the Department for that purpose. Provides specified responsibilities for the chairperson, in consultation with Council members. Effective July 1, 2020.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3184 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB3184-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB3184 Introduced 2/7/2020, by Sen. Pat McGuire SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
410 ILCS 510/5 new
Amends the Cadaver Act. Creates the Cadaver Advisory Council and tasks it with creating and maintaining a document containing current embalming techniques, preservation practices, and air quality testing from universities within the State, as well as recommendations regarding the administration of an anatomical education program. Requires the document to be made available on the Department of Public Health's website and kept up to date by the Department as it is maintained by the Council. Provides that the Council shall meet at least every 6 months. Provides that the Director of Public Health shall serve as the Council's chairperson alongside other specified members, who shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary expenses from funds appropriated to the Department for that purpose. Provides specified responsibilities for the chairperson, in consultation with Council members. Effective July 1, 2020.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning health.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Cadaver Act is amended by adding Section 5
as follows:
(410 ILCS 510/5 new)
Sec. 5. Cadaver Advisory Council.
(a) The General Assembly finds that:
(1) Embalming practices for medical education are not
standardized or monitored in the United States. Labs
throughout the nation use a variety of embalming solutions
that may contain formaldehyde, phenol, MEA, or other
chemicals. These chemicals may be influenced by
temperature and regional environments, and universities
cannot guarantee that the bodies students are learning from
have been embalmed using the safest, most efficient
processes. This could potentially create a dangerous
situation for both students and educators in cadaver labs
throughout the State.
(2) Therefore, it would be beneficial to both students
and educators, and to all of the universities and colleges
in the State, if there was created an organized group of
experts to meet and discuss anatomical laboratory

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education safety and the safe use, transportation, and
storage of cadavers used for anatomical education
programs.
(b) In this Section:
"Anatomical education program" means any educational
program that utilizes whole-body donation to educate students
about anatomy, physiology, and disease.
"Body donation program" means any nontransplant,
whole-body, or anatomical donation program that preserves
cadavers, typically for medical or scientific research.
"Council" means the Cadaver Advisory Council.
"Department" means the Department of Public Health.
"Director" means the Director of Public Health.
"Institution of higher learning" means an educational
organization located in this State that provides at least an
organized 2-year program of collegiate grade in the liberal
arts, sciences, or both, directly applicable toward the
attainment of a baccalaureate degree, or a program in health
education directly applicable toward the attainment of a
college certificate, diploma, or associate degree.
(c) The Cadaver Advisory Council is created. The Council
shall create and maintain a document containing current
embalming techniques, preservation practices, and air quality
testing from universities within the State, as well as
recommendations regarding the administration of an anatomical
education program, which shall, at a minimum, cover all of the

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following:
(1) acceptance of cadavers;
(2) embalming and preservation procedures;
(3) the differences between funeral embalming and
embalming for medical education;
(4) facilities in which cadavers may be stored and
examined;
(5) security;
(6) use of cadavers;
(7) transportation of cadavers;
(8) maintenance of written records; and
(9) final disposition of cadavers.
(d) The document created and maintained under subsection
(c) shall be made available on the Department's website and
kept up to date by the Department as it is maintained by the
Council.
(e) The Council shall meet at least every 6 months and at
other times as called by the chairperson, and shall consist of
the following members:
(1) The Director, or his or her designee, who shall
serve as chairperson.
(2) The Dean of the University of Illinois College of
Medicine, or his or her designee.
(3) The Dean of the Southern Illinois University School
of Medicine, or his or her designee.
(4) Two deans from independent universities with

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approved medical schools in the State, or their designees,
appointed by the Director.
(5) One member representing a statewide organization
that receives, prepares, preserves, and distributes human
remains for the purpose of medical education and research
at institutions throughout Illinois, appointed by the
Director.
(6) Two members representing lab managers at
institutions of higher learning that have a body donation
program, appointed by the Director.
(7) Two members representing lab managers at
institutions of higher learning that use cadavers from
outsourced body donation programs, appointed by the
Director.
(8) One member from a statewide organization
representing funeral homes or funeral home directors in the
State, appointed by the Governor.
(9) One member appointed by the Governor.
(f) Members of the Council shall serve without compensation
but may be reimbursed for their reasonable and necessary
expenses from funds appropriated to the Department for that
purpose, including travel, subject to the rules of the
appropriate travel control board.
(g) The chairperson shall be responsible for scheduling
meetings, setting meeting agendas, ensuring the development
and delivery of the final report and implementation plan, and

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other administrative tasks, in consultation with Council
members.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2020.