Public Act 100-1103
 
HB5784 EnrolledLRB100 17963 MJP 33147 b


  
    AN ACT concerning State government.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Department of Veterans' Affairs Act is 
amended  by adding Section 2.13 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 2805/2.13 new)
    Sec. 2.13. Veterans Homes; complaints; communicable 
disease reports.
    (a) As used in this Section: 
    "Case" means a person that lived as a resident in a 
Veterans Home and had an illness due to a communicable disease.
    "Communicable disease" means an illness due to a specific 
infectious agent or its toxic products that arises through 
transmission of that agent or its products from an infected 
person, animal, or inanimate source to a susceptible host, 
either directly or indirectly, through an intermediate plant or 
animal host, a vector, or the inanimate environment.
    (b) The Department shall submit a bi-annual report to the 
General Assembly by January 1 and July 1 of each year about the 
health and welfare of residents at Veterans Homes. The report 
shall be filed electronically with the General Assembly, as 
provided under Section 3.1 of the General Assembly Organization 
Act, and shall be provided electronically to any member of the 
General Assembly upon request. Each report shall include, but 
not be limited to, the following: 
        (1) the number and nature of complaints made by 
    residents, a resident's emergency contacts or next of kin, 
    or a resident's power of attorney during the quarter;
        (2) information on any epidemic reported at a Veterans 
    Home during the quarter; and
        (3) the number of cases and information on the cases, 
    including, but not limited to, any dates a resident showed 
    signs and symptoms of having a communicable disease, any 
    dates of a confirmed diagnosis of any resident with a 
    communicable disease, and the action taken by the Veterans 
    Home to eradicate the spread of communicable disease, 
    during the quarter. 
 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 2, 
2018.