Bill Text: IL SB3649 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities Act. Includes in the definition of "facility" a facility that provides housing to individuals with dementia. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB3649 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB3649-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB3649 Introduced 11/27/2018, by Sen. Terry Link SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 32/5
Amends the Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities Act. Includes in the definition of "facility" a facility that provides housing to individuals with dementia. Effective immediately.
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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 Authorized Electronic Monitoring in
Long-Term Care Facilities Act is amended by changing Section 5
as follows:
(210 ILCS 32/5)
Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Authorized electronic monitoring" means the placement and
use of an electronic monitoring device by a resident in his or
her room in accordance with this Act.
"Department" means the Department of Public Health.
"Electronic monitoring device" means a surveillance
instrument with a fixed position video camera or an audio
recording device, or a combination thereof, that is installed
in a resident's room under the provisions of this Act and
broadcasts or records activity or sounds occurring in the room.
"Facility" means an intermediate care facility for the
developmentally disabled licensed under the ID/DD Community
Care Act that has 30 beds or more, a facility licensed under
the MC/DD Act, or a long-term care facility licensed under the
Nursing Home Care Act, or a facility that provides housing to
individuals with dementia, as defined in Section 3 of the

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Alzheimer's Disease Assistance Act.
"Resident" means a person residing in a facility.
"Resident's representative" has the meaning given to that
term in (1) Section 1-123 of the Nursing Home Care Act if the
resident resides in a facility licensed under the Nursing Home
Care Act, (2) Section 1-123 of the ID/DD Community Care Act if
the resident resides in a facility licensed under the ID/DD
Community Care Act, or (3) Section 1-123 of the MC/DD Act if
the resident resides in a facility licensed under the MC/DD
Act.
(Source: P.A. 99-430, eff. 1-1-16; 99-784, eff. 1-1-17.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.