Bill Text: IL SB3461 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that a facility may request that a guardian designate in writing a representative to act on the guardian's behalf if, in an emergency, the facility cannot locate the guardian by telephone. Provides that the guardian may specify in writing the circumstances under which the guardian's representative may act. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB3461 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB3461-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 SB3461 Introduced 2/7/2012, by Sen. David Koehler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 45/2-102.5 new
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that a facility may request that a guardian designate in writing a representative to act on the guardian's behalf if, in an emergency, the facility cannot locate the guardian by telephone. Provides that the guardian may specify in writing the circumstances under which the guardian's representative may act. Effective immediately.
LRB097 16980 DRJ 62171 b
A BILL FOR
SB3461 LRB097 16980 DRJ 62171 b
AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Nursing Home Care Act is amended by adding
Section 2-102.5 as follows:
(210 ILCS 45/2-102.5 new)
Sec. 2-102.5. Guardian's representative. A facility may
request that a guardian designate in writing a representative
to act on the guardian's behalf if, in an emergency, the
facility cannot locate the guardian by telephone. The guardian
may specify in writing the circumstances under which the
guardian's representative may act.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.