91st General Assembly
Summary of HB3049
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House Sponsors:
O'BRIEN-CURRY,JULIE-RIGHTER-WOOLARD-GILES AND BLACK.

Senate Sponsors:
MYERS,J-HAWKINSON

Short description: 
H ED-MENINGITIS VACCINE INFO                                               

Synopsis of Bill as introduced:
        Amends various Acts relating to  the  governance  of  the  public      
   universities  in  Illinois.   Requires  any  university  facility that      
   delivers health services to university students  to  offer  meningitis      
   vaccines  and  to  keep  the  vaccine  in stock.  Provides that at the      
   beginning of each academic year, the university shall inform  each  of      
   its  students  and the student's parents or guardian about meningitis,      
   its transmission, and the number of meningitis cases reported  at  the      
   university in the previous academic year.  Effective July 1, 2000.          
        HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1.                                                 
        Replaces everything after the enacting  clause.   Amends  various      
   Acts  relating  to  the  governance  of  the  public  universities  in      
   Illinois.  Provides  that  at the beginning of each academic year, the      
   university shall inform each of its students and the student's parents      
   or guardian  about  meningitis  and  its  transmission.  Requires  the      
   University to recommend meningitis vaccination and, for those students      
   deciding  not  to  be vaccinated, to obtain a signed waiver indicating      
   the student's receipt of the information provided  and  the  student's      
   rejection  of  the  recommended  vaccination.  Requires any university      
   facility that delivers health services to university students to offer      
   meningitis vaccines.  Effective July 1, 2000.                               
          FISCAL NOTE (Board of Higher Education)                              
          While it is not possible to predict the exact number of people       
          who would choose to take the vaccination, it is possible to          
          predict the costs related to a certain number of persons.            
          Public universities report that the estimated cost of a single       
          meningitis vaccination ranges from $60 to $85. If 10% of the         
          194,235 students enrolled in public universities in fall 1999        
          chose to take the vaccination and there was no required student      
          co-payment, the cost to public universities would range between      
          $1.2 and $1.7 million.                                               
        HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 2.                                                 
        Requires  the  meningitis  information  to  be  provided   to   a      
   university's  incoming  freshmen  and transfer students (instead of to      
   all of its students) and to be  provided  at  the  beginning  of  each      
   semester (instead of each academic year).                                   
        HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 3.                                                 
        Deletes everything after the  enacting  clause.   Amends  various      
   Acts  relating  to  the  governance  of  the  public  universities  in      
   Illinois.   Requires a public university to include in the information      
   it provides to its incoming freshmen and transfer students information      
   about meningitis, its transmission, a college student's increased risk      
   of contracting meningitis, and the meningitis vaccine.   Requires  the      
   university  to  make the meningitis vaccine available to its students,      
   subject to availability of the vaccine. Effective July 1, 2000.             
          FISCAL NOTE, H-AM 1,2,3 (Board of Higher Education)                  
          Same as previous fiscal note, H-am 1.                                
 
Last action on Bill: SESSION SINE DIE

   Last action date: 01-01-09

           Location: House

 Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE -   3     SENATE -   0


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