It’s just a bill
Monday, May 17, 2021 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Crain’s…
Two bills worth watching are headed to the full State Senate. House Bill 12, drafted by the Illinois Education Association, would expand coverage under the Family and Medical Leave Act to thousands of education support professionals across the state.
Currently, to be eligible for FMLA an employee must have worked 1,250 hours during the previous year. Many educational support staff (such as secretaries, teachers’ aides and bus drivers) currently don’t qualify due to the limited number of days they are able to work during a school year. HB 12 reduces the minimum threshold to 1,000 hours, so that more education support professionals would qualify
Meanwhile, House Bill 119, also sent to the Senate, would create a drug repository program, which would allow people to return certain unused prescription drugs that would be reused for eligible populations.
Illinois House members sent legislation to the state senate that would expand the state’s Family and Medical Leave Act and the Senate Health Committee passed a bill that would create a Prescription Drug Repository Program.
* Amendment to SB2158 sponsored by GOP Sen. Jil Tracy…
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2022 shall provide coverage for treatment to eliminate or provide maximum feasible treatment of nevus flammeus, also known as port-wine stains, including, but not limited to, port-wine stains caused by Sturge-Weber syndrome. Provides that treatment or maximum feasible treatment shall include early intervention treatment, including topical, intralesional, or systemic medical therapy and surgery, and laser treatments approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in children aged 18 years and younger that are intended to prevent functional impairment related to vision function, oral function, inflammation, bleeding, infection, and other medical complications associated with port-wine stains. Provides that the coverage for port-wine stain treatment shall not include treatment solely for cosmetic purposes. Makes conforming changes in the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the School Code, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, the Limited Health Service Organization Act, the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act, and the Illinois Public Aid Code.
Looks like a constituent issue bill. I’d never heard of nevus flammeus before and just noticed “port-wine stains” on the calendar and decided to look it up.
* Further upping the press pop with the right-wing…
State Rep. Andrew Chesney, R-Freeport, filed a bill last week to prohibit the state from requiring so-called vaccine passports. He’s looking at expanding it to prohibit certain private functions from requiring such proof.
“Where in order for me to go to this concert series that I have to show my medical credentials is absolutely outrageous,” Chesney said.
Chesney’s House Bill 4081 filed Thursday remains in the House Rules Committee.
Medical credentials? Such drama.
* Related…
* Who Has a Right to Ask if You’re Vaccinated? Why a false controversy about vaccine privacy and “passports” threatens to prolong the pandemic
- Flat Bed Ford - Monday, May 17, 21 @ 2:55 pm:
Chesney is David McSweeney version 2.0. They even look alike.
- Nearly Normal - Monday, May 17, 21 @ 2:56 pm:
I was born with a Port Wine Stain on my face. It was removed with dry ice when I was a baby back in day before laser treatments. (Lasers were for Buck Rogers) I never bothered me as it was not large and was removed before I was in school. Some children who have one suffer a lot from teasing and bullying by their peers and others. I suppose some insurance policies consider it Cosmetic Surgery and deny payment. They are short-sighted in that the emotional trauma can last a lifetime.
- Norseman - Monday, May 17, 21 @ 2:58 pm:
Don’t you love all these social media taught lawyers?
My bet is that Chesney has never read a government or credible private website on HIPAA and it’s application. The GQP continues its attack on every measure to protect the public health.
- very old soil - Monday, May 17, 21 @ 3:21 pm:
I am so sad that Mr. Chesney is my representative
- JS Mill - Monday, May 17, 21 @ 3:21 pm:
So Chesney is against private businesses making their own decisions? Good to know.
- DuPage Saint - Monday, May 17, 21 @ 4:07 pm:
That was a real real interesting read on who has right to ask if you are vaccinated. It also explained HIPPA and why it probably doesn’t apply in most cases.
- TheInvisibleMan - Monday, May 17, 21 @ 4:10 pm:
Other countries have no problem requiring vaccine proof for entry. Travelling out of country is going to be enjoyable for a brief while. The worst of Americans simply won’t be allowed to travel to many places.