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92_SB2069eng SB2069 Engrossed LRB9212756NTpk 1 AN ACT relating to higher education institutions. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The University of Illinois Hospital Act is 5 amended by changing Section 5 as follows: 6 (110 ILCS 330/5) (from Ch. 23, par. 1375) 7 Sec. 5. The University may establish and collect charges 8 for hospital services rendered in the University of Illinois 9 Hospital or in connection with a University health care 10 program. However, with respect to health care professional 11 services rendered in connection with a University health care 12 program at the University of Illinois Hospital or elsewhere 13 by the Doctors of Medicine, the Doctors of Dentistry, or 14 other health care professionals who are members of the 15 University faculty, charges for such professional services 16 shall not be established or collected by the University or 17 the University of Illinois Hospital but may be by said 18 members of said faculty who render such services under a plan 19 or plans organized and administered by them. All such charges 20 shall be deposited in a special fund or funds in the treasury 21 of the University. The billing, collecting and disbursing of 22 any such fund shall remain exclusively under the supervision 23 and control of such faculty under a plan or plans established 24 by them for the general benefit and support of University 25 programs and activities related to the health professions, 26 provided no charges may be made or collected until such plan 27 has been approved by the University. However, no person shall 28 make or collect a personal or professional charge for his own 29 account for treating, caring for or nursing a patient in the 30 University of Illinois Hospital (other than health care 31 professional services provided at the University of Illinois SB2069 Engrossed -2- LRB9212756NTpk 1 Hospital by non-salaried adjunct University faculty who are 2 licensed dentists or physicians licensed to practice medicine 3 in all its branches members) or in connection with a 4 University health care program. Nothing herein shall prevent 5 the University from approving a plan under which any such 6 fund in the University treasury may be utilized in paying the 7 University salaries of such faculty members, or from 8 assisting in the billing and collection of professional 9 charges if all University costs in connection therewith are 10 paid from the charges so collected. 11 (Source: P.A. 91-206, eff. 7-20-99.) 12 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 13 becoming law.