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| | 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB3138 Introduced 2/1/2012, by Sen. Christine Radogno SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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| | Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning umbilical cord blood donation.
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| | A BILL FOR |
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| | SB3138 | | LRB097 17066 DRJ 62264 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 6.21 as follows:
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| 6 | | (210 ILCS 85/6.21)
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| 7 | | Sec. 6.21. Umbilical cord blood donation.
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| 8 | | (a) All licensed hospitals shall offer a pregnant patient |
| 9 | | the
the option to
donate, to a publicly accessible certified |
| 10 | | cord blood bank, blood extracted
from the umbilical cord |
| 11 | | following the delivery of a newborn child if the
donation can |
| 12 | | be made at no expense to the patient or
hospital for collection |
| 13 | | or storage. |
| 14 | | (b) Nothing in this Section obligates a hospital to collect |
| 15 | | umbilical cord
blood if, in the professional judgment of a |
| 16 | | physician licensed to practice
medicine in all its branches or |
| 17 | | a nurse, the collection would threaten the
health of the mother |
| 18 | | or child.
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| 19 | | (c) Nothing in this Section imposes a requirement upon any |
| 20 | | hospital
employee, physician, nurse, or hospital that is |
| 21 | | directly affiliated with a bona
fide religious denomination |
| 22 | | that includes as an integral part of its beliefs
and practices |
| 23 | | the tenet that blood transfer is contrary to the moral
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