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90_HB1699
20 ILCS 2310/55.84 new
410 ILCS 315/2
Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
Provides that the Department of Public Health may reduce a
check that is less than $50 in excess of the correct amount
of the fee to be paid by any person applying for any license,
certificate, registration, title, or permit. Provides that
no reduction in an amount greater than $50 may be made.
Amends the Communicable Disease Prevention Act. Provides
that child immunization records may be provided to the
Department of Public Health for a centralized immunization
file unless a parent requests that the information not be
provided. Provides that these records may also be shared
with certain people and entities unless a parent requests
that the information not be shared. Provides that persons or
entities requesting ;the records shall maintain the
confidentiality of the information and may use the
information for certain purposes. Provides that certain
persons and entities are not subject to an action or liable
for providing information from the records in accordance with
these provisions.
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1 AN ACT in relation to the operations of the Department of
2 Public Health.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
6 amended by adding Section 55.84 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 2310/55.84 new)
8 Sec. 55.84. Checks; reduction of amount. The Department
9 may reduce by interlineation the amount of any personal
10 check, corporate check, or company check drawn on the account
11 of and delivered by any person applying for any license,
12 certificate, registration, title, or permit that requires
13 payment of a fee. The amount of reduction shall be limited
14 to $50, and the drawer of the check shall be notified in
15 writing of the reduction. Any check for an amount more than
16 $50 in excess of the correct amount shall be returned to the
17 drawer. Any check altered as authorized by this Section
18 shall be endorsed by the Director of the Department as
19 follows: "This check is warranted to subsequent holders and
20 to the drawee to be in the amount of $ (insert amount).".
21 All applications for a license, title, or permit (upon
22 reprinting of forms by the Department) shall contain the
23 following authorization statement: "My signature on this
24 application authorizes the Department of Public Health to
25 reduce the amount of the accompanying check if the amount
26 submitted is not correct. I understand this will be done
27 only if the amount submitted is greater than the required
28 fee, but in no event shall the reduction be made in an amount
29 greater than $50.".
30 Section 10. The Communicable Disease Prevention Act is
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1 amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
2 (410 ILCS 315/2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 22.12)
3 Sec. 2. Immunization.
4 (a) The Department of Public Health shall promulgate
5 rules and regulations requiring immunization of children
6 against preventable communicable diseases designated by the
7 Director. Before any regulation or amendment thereto is
8 prescribed, the Department shall conduct a public hearing
9 regarding such regulation. The Department may prescribe
10 additional rules and regulations for immunization of other
11 diseases as vaccines are developed.
12 (b) The provisions of this Act shall not apply if:
13 (1) 1. The parent or guardian of the child objects
14 thereto on the grounds that the administration of
15 immunizing agents conflicts with his religious tenets or
16 practices or,
17 (2) 2. A physician employed by the parent or
18 guardian to provide care and treatment to the child
19 states that the physical condition of the child is such
20 that the administration of one or more of the required
21 immunizing agents would be detrimental to the health of
22 the child.
23 (c) Immunization records concerning a child may be
24 provided to the Department of Public Health for a centralized
25 immunization file unless the parent or legal guardian
26 requests that this information not be provided. Immunization
27 records may also be shared with a local health department, a
28 public vaccine provider, a community health center, the
29 parents, an attending physician, licensed child care
30 facilities, Head Start centers, schools, and higher education
31 institutions unless the parent or legal guardian requests
32 that this information not be shared. Patient immunization
33 records that may be released include the following:
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1 (1) Name and address.
2 (2) Date of birth.
3 (3) Gender.
4 (4) Race and ethnicity.
5 (5) Types and dates of immunizations administered,
6 regardless of the date of immunization.
7 (6) Existence of a medical or religious exemption.
8 The name and address of the physician, health department, or
9 other vaccine provider that administered each dose may be
10 submitted to the Department of Public Health.
11 (d) Persons or entities requesting a patient's
12 immunization records shall maintain the confidentiality of
13 the information released to them and may use the information
14 for the following purposes:
15 (1) To provide immunization services to the
16 patient.
17 (2) To assess patient compliance with the
18 immunization schedule.
19 (3) To compile and disseminate statistical
20 information of the immunization status on groups of
21 patients without identifying information for these
22 patients included in these groups.
23 No person or entity who receives information under this
24 Section shall disclose information contained in immunization
25 records publicly or in an action of any kind in a court or
26 before a tribunal, board, or agency in a manner that
27 identifies an individual patient. Neither the Department of
28 Public Health nor a physician, public vaccine provider, local
29 health department, or any other person or entity that
30 provides services on behalf of a child shall be subject to an
31 action or be liable for providing information from the
32 immunization records of a child as provided in subsection (c)
33 and this subsection (d).
34 (e) Releasing information as provided in subsections (c)
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1 and (d) shall not be construed as a violation of the
2 confidentiality, if any, of the information. The Department
3 of Public Health shall promulgate rules needed to implement
4 the provisions of subsections (c) and (d).
5 (Source: P.A. 85-828.)