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91_SJ0069
SRS91SJ0043ABsa
1 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, The Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act was
3 created in 1974, in accordance with federal mandates, to
4 establish a procedure to reverse the trend of increasing
5 health care costs resulting from unnecessary construction or
6 modification of health care facilities, to improve the
7 financial ability of the public to obtain necessary health
8 services, and to establish an orderly and comprehensive
9 health care delivery system providing quality health care;
10 and
11 WHEREAS, The Health Facilities Planning Board currently
12 administers the Certificate of Need program for the
13 regulation of ambulatory surgical treatment centers,
14 hospitals, nursing homes, and kidney disease treatment
15 centers within the State of Illinois; and
16 WHEREAS, The health care delivery system has undergone
17 drastic changes and witnessed numerous advancements in the
18 past 25 years; and
19 WHEREAS, Thirteen states have repealed their Certificate
20 of Need programs and many other states have scaled back their
21 Certificate of Need programs by limiting the scope and
22 criteria for review under those programs; and
23 WHEREAS, Very few legislative changes have been made to
24 the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act since its
25 inception; therefore, be it
26 RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIRST GENERAL
27 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF
28 REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING HEREIN, that there is created the
29 Illinois Legislative Task Force on Certificate of Need
30 consisting of 5 voting members; one of whom shall be a member
31 of the Senate appointed by the President of the Senate and
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1 who shall serve as Co-chairperson, one of whom shall be a
2 member of the Senate appointed by the Minority Leader of the
3 Senate, one of whom shall be a member of the House of
4 Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House of
5 Representatives and who shall serve as Co-chairperson, one of
6 whom shall be a member of the House of Representatives
7 appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of
8 Representatives, and one of whom shall be a consumer
9 appointed jointly by the Co-chairpersons of the Task Force;
10 and be it further
11 RESOLVED, That the Task Force shall include 8 non-voting
12 members; one of whom shall be a representative designated by
13 the Illinois Hospital and Health Systems Association, one of
14 whom shall be a representative designated by the Illinois
15 State Medical Society, one of whom shall be a representative
16 designated by the Life Services Network, one of whom shall be
17 a representative designated by the Illinois Health Care
18 Association, one of whom shall be a representative designated
19 by the Illinois Council on Long Term Care, one of whom shall
20 be a representative designated by the Chamber of Commerce,
21 one of whom shall be a representative designated by the
22 Freestanding Surgical Treatment Center Association, and one
23 of whom shall be a member of the Health Facilities Planning
24 Board appointed jointly by the Co-chairpersons of the Task
25 Force; and be it further
26 RESOLVED, That the meetings of the Task Force shall be
27 held at the call of the Co-chairpersons and that members of
28 the Task Force shall serve without compensation; and be it
29 further
30 RESOLVED, That the Task Force shall study the Certificate
31 of Need process; and be it further
32 RESOLVED, That the Task Force shall report its
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1 recommendations to the General Assembly and Governor on or
2 before January 9, 2001.