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Thursday, Nov 30, 2023 - Posted by Isabel Miller

* Starting off with HB4243 from Rep. Jed Davis (R-Newark)

Amends the Illinois Clinical Laboratory and Blood Bank Act. Requires a blood bank to test or have tested donated blood for evidence of any COVID-19 vaccine and any other messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine components, and requires a blood donor to disclose during each blood donor screening process whether the blood donor has received a COVID-19 vaccine or any other mRNA vaccine during the donor’s lifetime. Requires blood or blood components to include on their labels a designation that the blood or blood components tested positive for evidence of a COVID-19 vaccine or any other mRNA vaccine component or was drawn from a blood donor who disclosed the donor have received a COVID-19 vaccine or any other mRNA vaccine during the donor’s lifetime. Provides that the Department of Public Health must adopt rules to implement the changes made by the amendatory Act.

* HB4235 was filed by Rep. Charles Meier (R-Okawville) on Monday

Amends the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency must adopt amendments to its rules governing the administration of the Emergency Management Performance Grant program to ensure that every county emergency services and disaster agency in the State receives a base allotment of no less than $25,000 per fiscal year, with the remaining allocation of funds to be distributed to county emergency services and disaster agencies as deemed appropriate by the Director of the Agency. Provides that, in distributing the remaining allocation of funds, the Director shall consider, among other things, any limitation on a county’s tax base, the increased costs of accreditation requirements for smaller agencies, and the increase in the number of disasters that affect smaller counties in the State. Effective immediately.

* HB4239 from Rep. Mary Flowers (D-Chicago)

Amends the Medical School Curriculum Act. Provides that, for medical students who, on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, matriculate into a medical school that is subject to the Act, the minimum required curriculum shall also include a medical humanities course that covers, among other things, the effects of institutional racism on medical education, medical research, and medical care in the United States. Effective immediately.

* Rep. Jenn Ladisch Douglass (D-Elmhurst) filed HB4240

Amends the Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. Restores language concerning how the terms of elected commissioners are to be determined for a forest preserve district having boundaries that are coextensive with the boundaries of a county having a population of more than 800,000 but less than 3,000,000. Specifies that the changes made by the amendatory Act are to be deemed to have been in continuous effect since November 15, 2021 (the effective date of the Public Act that deleted language concerning how the terms of elected commissioners of such a district are to be determined) and are to remain in effect until lawfully repealed. Provides that all actions that were taken on or after 2021 and before the effective date of the amendatory Act by a downstate forest preserve district or any other person and that are consistent with or in reliance on the changes made by the amendatory Act are validated. Effective immediately.

* HB4245 from Rep. Bob Morgan (D-Deerfield)

Amends the Illinois Act on Aging. In provisions concerning the Community Care Program (program), removes from the list of program services clearinghouse information provided by senior citizen home owners who want to rent rooms to or share living space with other senior citizens. In a provision requiring the Department on Aging to perform certain actions to increase the effectiveness of the program, removes a requirement that the Department ensure the determination of need tool is accurate in determining program participants’ level of need. In a provision concerning pre-service certification for in-home workers who provide housekeeping or home aide services, requires employing agencies to pay wages to in-home workers for pre-service and in-service training. Provides that the Department may authorize (rather than shall delay) program services until an applicant is determined eligible for medical assistance under the Illinois Public Aid Code. Removes a provision requiring the Department to implement co-payments under the program. Requires the Department to make annual (rather than quarterly) reports on care coordination unit performance and adherence to service guidelines. Removes expired rate levels. Provides that all final administrative decisions of the Department are subject to judicial review. Makes other changes.

* Rep. Kimberly du Buclet (D-Chicago) introduced HR515 last week

Declares November 24, 2023 as Buddy Guy Day.

       

19 Comments
  1. - Norseman - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 11:33 am:

    HB 4243, another obscene effort by MAGA GOP pols to cave to the ignorant anti-public health, anti-science crowd.

    Thankfully, the MAGA’s don’t have a chance to pass this bill that would increase the cost and decrease the availability of blood for transfusions.


  2. - Dance Band on the Titanic - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 11:39 am:

    Are there really people out there who, in a life or death situation, would refuse a blood transfusion because the donor had a COVID vaccine?


  3. - Jerry - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 11:42 am:

    HB 4243…more Big Government, Nanny State, Socialism from Republicans.

    See Government Oversight of a Women’s Uterus for more details.


  4. - cermak_rd - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 11:43 am:

    What Norseman said. For goodness sakes. It’s one thing for them to be paranoid but leave our public health system alone. If they’re so paranoid, let them found their own blood banks and leave the rest of us alone.


  5. - Amalia - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 11:59 am:

    Jed Davis, seriously vying with Aaron Rodgers for the out there person of the year award.


  6. - We've never had one before - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 12:03 pm:

    >>>>removes from the list of program services clearinghouse information provided by senior citizen home owners who want to rent rooms to or share living space with other senior citizens.

    is this a problem? are there evil seniors looking for roommates to dismember or assault or something?


  7. - JS Mill - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 12:09 pm:

    =Jed Davis, seriously vying with Aaron Rodgers for the out there person of the year award.=

    I mean seriously, the guys name is Jed. Do we need to know anymore.

    Maybe we can convince Rich to add a new category to the Golden Horseshoe Awards? The “How not to be taken seriously as a Legislator Award” or something to that effect.


  8. - TheInvisibleMan - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 12:23 pm:

    ==are there evil seniors==

    While evil is subjective, it may have more to do with the inability of seniors to objectively handle the required property upkeep which is especially problematic for other seniors living in such a house.

    I know locally, there has been a recent explosion of horror stories of seniors renting out their first homes to other seniors, and then not keeping up with things like - keeping the furnace working in December. There’s no age limit on slum lords, and it seems like removing this category in the program may be the legislative response to curtail some of that type of activity within the program.


  9. - Michelle Flaherty - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 12:50 pm:

    –senior citizen home owners who want to rent rooms to or share living space with other senior citizens.–

    I thought this read more like a seniors dating service


  10. - Demoralized - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 12:59 pm:

    I really don’t know how to say this other than to say Rep. Davis is an idiot.


  11. - Huh? - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 1:15 pm:

    Representative davis is 3 years too late with his silly covid bill.

    I couldn’t tell you if my covid vax used mRNA technology. I seriously doubt anyone would have that information. I had a covid vax in October and I don’t remember the brand of shot I got. All I know is I got the covid and flu shots at the same time.

    Furthermore, the mRNA vaccine degrades to nothing in a few weeks.

    https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/where-mrna-vaccines-and-spike-proteins-go#:~:text=The%20cells%20make%20copies%20of,preserved%20at%20very%20low%20temperatures.


  12. - Stephanie Kollmann - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 1:15 pm:

    ==Are there really people out there who, in a life or death situation, would refuse a blood transfusion because the donor had a COVID vaccine?==

    Yes. Absolutely.

    And because they are in a death cult, they should not be afforded influence over any statewide law.


  13. - Stephanie Kollmann - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 1:22 pm:

    There are, of course, a lot more people who just talk like this and then Discover Science in the foxhole when their health is actually on the line.

    But ask anyone who gives medical care to unvaxed patients today about refusals of various life-saving care during covid and you will hear of the death cultists.


  14. - Stephanie Kollmann - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 1:32 pm:

    Also, worth bearing in mind re: his relationship to science that Rep. Davis is the president of a private school board that sued the state over covid prevention and participated in Invest in Kids.


  15. - Dotnonymous x - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 1:35 pm:

    I wish there were a blood test…for ignorance.


  16. - H-W - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 1:48 pm:

    HB 4243 reminds me of my sister. She would not get the coronavirus vaccine a couple years ago because she had became a devout, zealously conservative Catholic opposed to abortion when she turned 60 (prior, she was Jewish; before that Methodist; before that Southern Baptist).

    My sister refused to vaccinate because she was convinced aborted fetuses were being used to create vaccines and as a neo-Catholic it was against God’s Will to vaccinate.

    So now it appears a legislator in Illinois wants to create a registry so we can know whose blood offends God, apparently. Crazy people out there.


  17. - thisjustinagain - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 2:20 pm:

    Dotnonymous, I’d also like to see testing for common sense and stupidity. But then what do we do with all the people who flunk the tests?
    Dance Band, it wasn’t so long ago that people would refuse the wrong “color” blood also.


  18. - Huh? - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 3:04 pm:

    “… people would refuse the wrong “color” blood…”

    There was a MASH tv episode about this very topic.


  19. - cermak_rd - Thursday, Nov 30, 23 @ 4:54 pm:

    Dotnonymous,

    The good thing is most of them aren’t shy about opening their mouths which tends to quickly remove doubt.


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