103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2044 Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. Sally J. Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: New Act Creates the Tickborne Disease Prevention and Protection Act. Presents legislative findings. Requires the Department of Public Health, in conjunction with the medical entomology lab of the Prairie Research Institute's Illinois Natural History Survey and a statewide association representing physicians, to develop protocols and best practices for identifying, diagnosing, and treating tickborne diseases in Illinois and a mandatory accredited continuing medical education course that describes those protocols and best practices. Provides that the Department shall require health care professionals and laboratories to report cases of tickborne disease to each other and the Department. Directs the Department to train local health departments to respond to tickborne disease-related inquiries. Requires the Department to prepare a report of all efforts undertaken by the Department under the Act. LRB103 30685 CPF 57154 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2044 Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. Sally J. Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: New Act New Act Creates the Tickborne Disease Prevention and Protection Act. Presents legislative findings. Requires the Department of Public Health, in conjunction with the medical entomology lab of the Prairie Research Institute's Illinois Natural History Survey and a statewide association representing physicians, to develop protocols and best practices for identifying, diagnosing, and treating tickborne diseases in Illinois and a mandatory accredited continuing medical education course that describes those protocols and best practices. Provides that the Department shall require health care professionals and laboratories to report cases of tickborne disease to each other and the Department. Directs the Department to train local health departments to respond to tickborne disease-related inquiries. Requires the Department to prepare a report of all efforts undertaken by the Department under the Act. LRB103 30685 CPF 57154 b LRB103 30685 CPF 57154 b A BILL FOR
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2044 Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. Sally J. Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act New Act
New Act
Creates the Tickborne Disease Prevention and Protection Act. Presents legislative findings. Requires the Department of Public Health, in conjunction with the medical entomology lab of the Prairie Research Institute's Illinois Natural History Survey and a statewide association representing physicians, to develop protocols and best practices for identifying, diagnosing, and treating tickborne diseases in Illinois and a mandatory accredited continuing medical education course that describes those protocols and best practices. Provides that the Department shall require health care professionals and laboratories to report cases of tickborne disease to each other and the Department. Directs the Department to train local health departments to respond to tickborne disease-related inquiries. Requires the Department to prepare a report of all efforts undertaken by the Department under the Act.
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1 AN ACT concerning health.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 1. Short title.
5 (a) This Act may be cited as the Tickborne Disease
6 Prevention and Protection Act.
7 (b) This Act may be referred to as the Gabby Galbo
8 Tickborne Disease Prevention and Protection Law.
9 Section 5. Legislative findings. The General Assembly
10 finds that:
11 (1) Tickborne diseases, including, but not limited to,
12 Lyme disease, Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis,
13 Ehrlichiosis, and anaplasmosis, afflict humans and other
14 animals and are caused by infectious agents transmitted by
15 tick bites.
16 (2) In the past decade, tickborne diseases have been
17 reported more frequently in Illinois.
18 (3) Anyone participating in an outdoor activity,
19 especially in an area with tall grasses, shrubs,
20 low-hanging branches, or leaf mold, has a higher chance of
21 contracting tick bites, but it is possible to encounter a
22 tick bite anywhere.
23 (4) Tick bites can occur throughout the year,
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2044 Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. Sally J. Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act New Act
New Act
Creates the Tickborne Disease Prevention and Protection Act. Presents legislative findings. Requires the Department of Public Health, in conjunction with the medical entomology lab of the Prairie Research Institute's Illinois Natural History Survey and a statewide association representing physicians, to develop protocols and best practices for identifying, diagnosing, and treating tickborne diseases in Illinois and a mandatory accredited continuing medical education course that describes those protocols and best practices. Provides that the Department shall require health care professionals and laboratories to report cases of tickborne disease to each other and the Department. Directs the Department to train local health departments to respond to tickborne disease-related inquiries. Requires the Department to prepare a report of all efforts undertaken by the Department under the Act.
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1 including during winter months.
2 (5) In 2018, the American Academy of Pediatrics'
3 Committee on Infectious Diseases determined that a course
4 of treatment with doxycycline is safe to prescribe to
5 young children with any infection responsive to it,
6 specifically including early tickborne diseases.
7 Section 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
8 "Tickborne disease" means any disease carried or caused by
9 a tick.
10 "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
11 Section 15. Tickborne disease; protocols and best
12 practices.
13 (a) The Department, in conjunction with the National
14 Institutes of Health, the medical entomology lab of the
15 Prairie Research Institute's Illinois Natural History Survey,
16 and a statewide association representing physicians, shall
17 develop mandatory protocols and best practices for
18 identifying, diagnosing, and treating tickborne diseases in
19 Illinois. The Department shall study the diseases carried by
20 ticks in Illinois and the number of people infected by ticks in
21 Illinois to provide data to the public on the incidence of
22 tickborne disease and locations of exposure in Illinois, by
23 county. The Department shall require local health departments,
24 health care professionals, and laboratories to report to each
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1 other and the Department, within the period specified in the
2 Control of Communicable Diseases Code for reporting to local
3 health departments, each case of a tickborne disease in the
4 local health department in whose jurisdiction the case is
5 reported. The Department shall also train local health
6 departments to respond to tickborne disease-related inquiries
7 from the public.
8 (b) To raise awareness about and promote the prevention of
9 tickborne disease, the protocols and best practices developed
10 by the Department under subsection (a):
11 (1) shall be published on a designated and publicly
12 accessible webpage, shall include up-to-date information
13 about the prevention, detection, and treatment of all
14 tickborne disease, and shall illustrate the prevalence of
15 tickborne disease using historical mapping;
16 (2) shall reference peer-reviewed scientific research
17 articles;
18 (3) shall incorporate guidance and recommendations
19 from the federal Centers for Disease Control and
20 Prevention, the Agency for Healthcare Research and
21 Quality's National Guideline Clearinghouse, and any other
22 persons or entities determined by the Department to have
23 particular expertise in tickborne disease; and
24 (4) shall be distributed to physicians, other health
25 care professionals and providers, and persons subject to
26 an increased risk of contracting tickborne disease.
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1 (c) The Department shall prepare a report of all efforts
2 undertaken by the Department under this Act. The report shall
3 be posted on the Department's website and distributed to local
4 health departments and to any other facilities as determined
5 by the Department.
6 Section 20. Mandatory continuing medical education
7 training; tickborne disease. The Department, in conjunction
8 with the medical entomology lab of the Prairie Research
9 Institute's Illinois Natural History Survey and a statewide
10 association representing physicians, shall develop a mandatory
11 accredited continuing medical education course that describes
12 the protocols and best practices for identifying, diagnosing,
13 and treating tickborne diseases in Illinois.
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