HB1214 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB104 05053 BAB 15081 b

104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB1214

Introduced 1/9/2025, by Rep. Adam M. Niemerg

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

5 ILCS 100/5-45.65 new
210 ILCS 5/10f	from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 157-8.10f
210 ILCS 85/7	from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 148
225 ILCS 60/67 new

Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Provides that sex-reassignment procedures are prohibited for patients younger than 18 years of age. Provides that if sex-reassignment procedures are administered or performed on patients 18 years of age or older, consent must be provided as specified. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall revoke the license of any physician who willfully or actively violates the prohibition on sex-reassignment procedures for patients younger than 18 years of age. Amends the Hospital Licensing Act and the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act. Adds a failure to comply with the provisions as grounds for fines, license denial, license suspension or revocation, or refusal to renew a hospital or facility's license. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to provide for emergency rulemaking.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is amended by adding Section 5-45.65 as follows:

(5 ILCS 100/5-45.65 new)

Sec. 5-45.65. Emergency rulemaking; Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. To provide for the expeditious and timely implementation of this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly, emergency rules implementing Section 67 of the Medical Practice Act of 1987 may be adopted in accordance with Section 5-45 by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and the Department of Public Health. The adoption of emergency rules authorized by Section 5-45 and this Section is deemed to be necessary for the public interest, safety, and welfare.

This Section is repealed one year after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly.

Section 10. The Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act is amended by changing Section 10f as follows:

(210 ILCS 5/10f) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 157-8.10f)

Sec. 10f. Denial, suspension, revocation or refusal to renew a license; suspension of a service.

(a) When the Director determines that there is or has been a substantial or continued failure to comply with this Act or any rule promulgated hereunder, or Section 67 of the Medical Practice Act of 1987, the Department may issue an order of license denial, suspension or revocation, or refusal to renew a license, in accordance with subsection (a) of Section 10g of this Act.

(b) When the Director determines that a facility has failed to demonstrate the capacity to safely provide one or more of its services to patients, the Department may issue an order of service suspension in accordance with subsection (a) of Section 10g of this Act.

(c) If, however, the Department finds that the public interest, health, safety, or welfare imperatively requires emergency action, and if the Director incorporates a finding to that effect in the order, summary suspension of a service or a license to open, conduct, operate, and maintain an ambulatory surgical treatment center or any part thereof may be ordered pending proceedings for license revocation or other action, which shall be promptly instituted and determined.

(Source: P.A. 86-1292.)

Section 15. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by changing Section 7 as follows:

(210 ILCS 85/7) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 148)

Sec. 7. (a) The Director after notice and opportunity for hearing to the applicant or licensee may deny, suspend, or revoke a permit to establish a hospital or deny, suspend, or revoke a license to open, conduct, operate, and maintain a hospital in any case in which he finds that there has been a substantial failure to comply with the provisions of this Act, the Hospital Report Card Act, or the Illinois Adverse Health Care Events Reporting Law of 2005, or Section 67 of the Medical Practice Act of 1987 or the standards, rules, and regulations established by virtue of any of those Acts. The Department may impose fines on hospitals, not to exceed $500 per occurrence, for failing to (1) initiate a criminal background check on a patient that meets the criteria for hospital-initiated background checks or (2) report the death of a person known to be a resident of a facility licensed under the ID/DD Community Care Act or the MC/DD Act to the coroner or medical examiner within 24 hours as required by Section 6.09a of this Act. In assessing whether to impose such a fine for failure to initiate a criminal background check, the Department shall consider various factors including, but not limited to, whether the hospital has engaged in a pattern or practice of failing to initiate criminal background checks. Money from fines shall be deposited into the Long Term Care Provider Fund.

(a-5) If a hospital demonstrates a pattern or practice of failing to substantially comply with the requirements of Section 10.10 or the hospital's written staffing plan, the hospital shall provide a plan of correction to the Department within 60 days. The Department may impose fines as follows: (i) if a hospital fails to implement a written staffing plan for nursing services, a fine not to exceed $500 per occurrence may be imposed; (ii) if a hospital demonstrates a pattern or practice of failing to substantially comply with a plan of correction within 60 days after the plan takes effect, a fine not to exceed $500 per occurrence may be imposed; and (iii) if a hospital demonstrates for a second or subsequent time a pattern or practice of failing to substantially comply with a plan of correction within 60 days after the plan takes effect, a fine not to exceed $1,000 per occurrence may be imposed. Reports of violations of Section 10.10 shall be subject to public disclosure under Section 6.14a. Money from fines within this subsection (a-5) shall be deposited into the Hospital Licensure Fund, and money from fines for violations of Section 10.10 shall be used for scholarships under the Nursing Education Scholarship Law.

(b) Such notice shall be effected by registered mail or by personal service setting forth the particular reasons for the proposed action and fixing a date, not less than 15 days from the date of such mailing or service, at which time the applicant or licensee shall be given an opportunity for a hearing. Such hearing shall be conducted by the Director or by an employee of the Department designated in writing by the Director as Hearing Officer to conduct the hearing. On the basis of any such hearing, or upon default of the applicant or licensee, the Director shall make a determination specifying his findings and conclusions. In case of a denial to an applicant of a permit to establish a hospital, such determination shall specify the subsection of Section 6 under which the permit was denied and shall contain findings of fact forming the basis of such denial. A copy of such determination shall be sent by registered mail or served personally upon the applicant or licensee. The decision denying, suspending, or revoking a permit or a license shall become final 35 days after it is so mailed or served, unless the applicant or licensee, within such 35 day period, petitions for review pursuant to Section 13.

(c) The procedure governing hearings authorized by this Section shall be in accordance with rules promulgated by the Department and approved by the Hospital Licensing Board. A full and complete record shall be kept of all proceedings, including the notice of hearing, complaint, and all other documents in the nature of pleadings, written motions filed in the proceedings, and the report and orders of the Director and Hearing Officer. All testimony shall be reported but need not be transcribed unless the decision is appealed pursuant to Section 13. A copy or copies of the transcript may be obtained by any interested party on payment of the cost of preparing such copy or copies.

(d) The Director or Hearing Officer shall upon his own motion, or on the written request of any party to the proceeding, issue subpoenas requiring the attendance and the giving of testimony by witnesses, and subpoenas duces tecum requiring the production of books, papers, records, or memoranda. All subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum issued under the terms of this Act may be served by any person of full age. The fees of witnesses for attendance and travel shall be the same as the fees of witnesses before the Circuit Court of this State, such fees to be paid when the witness is excused from further attendance. When the witness is subpoenaed at the instance of the Director, or Hearing Officer, such fees shall be paid in the same manner as other expenses of the Department, and when the witness is subpoenaed at the instance of any other party to any such proceeding the Department may require that the cost of service of the subpoena or subpoena duces tecum and the fee of the witness be borne by the party at whose instance the witness is summoned. In such case, the Department in its discretion, may require a deposit to cover the cost of such service and witness fees. A subpoena or subpoena duces tecum issued as aforesaid shall be served in the same manner as a subpoena issued out of a court.

(e) Any Circuit Court of this State upon the application of the Director, or upon the application of any other party to the proceeding, may, in its discretion, compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books, papers, records, or memoranda and the giving of testimony before the Director or Hearing Officer conducting an investigation or holding a hearing authorized by this Act, by an attachment for contempt, or otherwise, in the same manner as production of evidence may be compelled before the court.

(f) The Director or Hearing Officer, or any party in an investigation or hearing before the Department, may cause the depositions of witnesses within the State to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for like depositions in civil actions in courts of this State, and to that end compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, records, or memoranda.

(Source: P.A. 102-641, eff. 8-27-21.)

Section 20. The Medical Practice Act of 1987 is amended by adding Section 67 as follows:

(225 ILCS 60/67 new)

Sec. 67. Prohibition on sex-reassignment procedures.

(a) As used in this Section:

"Sex" means the classification of a person as either male or female based on the organization of the human body of such person for a specific reproductive role, as indicated by the person's sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, and internal and external genitalia present at birth.

"Sex-reassignment procedures" means any medical procedure, including a surgical procedure, to affirm a person's perception of his or her sex if that perception is inconsistent with the person's sex.

"Sex-reassignment procedures" does not include:

(1) treatment provided by a physician who, in his or her good faith clinical judgment, performs procedures upon or provides therapies to a minor born with a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sexual development, including any of the following:

(A) external biological sex characteristics that are unresolvably ambiguous; and

(B) a disorder of sexual development in which the physician has determined through genetic or biochemical testing that the patient does not have a normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action for a male or female, as applicable;

(2) procedures to treat an infection, an injury, a disease, or a disorder that has been caused or exacerbated by the performance of any sex-reassignment procedure, regardless of whether such procedure was performed in accordance with state or federal law; and

(3) procedures provided to a patient for the treatment of a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness that would, as certified by a licensed physician, place the individual in imminent danger of death or impairment of a major bodily function without the procedure.

(b) Sex-reassignment procedures are prohibited for patients younger than 18 years of age.

(c) If sex-reassignment procedures are prescribed for or administered or performed on patients 18 years of age or older, consent must be voluntary, informed, and in writing on forms adopted by rule of the Department. Consent to sex-reassignment procedures is voluntary and informed only if the physician who is to prescribe or administer the pharmaceutical product or perform the procedure has, at a minimum, while physically present in the same room:

(1) informed the patient of the nature and risks of the procedure in order for the patient to make a prudent decision;

(2) provided the informed consent form, as adopted in rule by the Department, to the patient; and

(3) received the patient's written acknowledgment, before the procedure is administered or performed, that the information required to be provided under this subsection has been provided.

(c) Sex-reassignment procedures may not be administered or performed except by a physician.

(d) The Department shall revoke the license of any physician who willfully or actively participates in a violation of subsection (b).

(e) The Department shall adopt emergency rules to implement this Section.