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Sen. Christine Radogno
Filed: 3/9/2009
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 105
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 105 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the MRSA |
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| Prevention, Control, and Reporting Act.
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| Section 5. Definition. In this Act, "State residential
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| facility" or "facility" means: any Department of Human Services
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| operated residential facility, including any State mental
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| health hospital, State developmental center, or State
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| residential school for the deaf and visually impaired; any
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| Department of Corrections operated correctional center, work
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| camp or boot camp; and any
Department of Juvenile Justice |
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| operated juvenile center or boot
camp.
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| Section 10. MRSA prevention, control, and reporting. In |
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| order to improve
the prevention of infections due to |
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| methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus ("MRSA"), the |
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| following
MRSA prevention, control, and reporting activities |
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| are applicable to State residential facilities: |
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| (1) Guidelines. State residential facilities shall |
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| develop and utilize policies and procedures for MRSA |
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| prevention, control, and reporting that are in compliance |
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| with federal guidelines and consistent with the |
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| operational needs of affected agencies.
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| (2) Minimum standards. Procedural MRSA Prevention and |
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| Control Guidelines shall include, but not be limited to, |
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| recommendations and requirements for screening and |
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| surveillance, education and training, hygiene, sanitation, |
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| and infection control. |
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| (3) Reporting. State residential facilities shall |
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| comply with Department of Public Health rules and |
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| regulations for reporting of communicable diseases, |
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| including MRSA.
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| Section 15. Point prevalency studies. All Illinois |
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| correctional facilities shall perform on a quarterly basis a |
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| point prevalency study to determine the number of MRSA |
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| colonizations and MRSA infections within each correctional |
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| facility. All other State residential facilities shall conduct |
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| a point prevalency study each 6 months for MRSA colonizations |
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| and MRSA infections. Study results with respect to Illinois |
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| correctional facilities shall be posted on the Department of |