104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1332 Introduced , by Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 210 ILCS 85/11.11 new Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that a hospital licensed under the Act must, at the time a patient is being checked in, give the patient an opportunity to designate an emergency contact to be notified if the patient dies or experiences a significant change in condition. If an emergency contact is designated, hospital staff must communicate with the emergency contact and ask whether the emergency contact would prefer to be notified by telephone call, by hospital staff when the emergency contact reaches the hospital, or by some other method. LRB104 07383 BAB 17423 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1332 Introduced , by Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 210 ILCS 85/11.11 new 210 ILCS 85/11.11 new Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that a hospital licensed under the Act must, at the time a patient is being checked in, give the patient an opportunity to designate an emergency contact to be notified if the patient dies or experiences a significant change in condition. If an emergency contact is designated, hospital staff must communicate with the emergency contact and ask whether the emergency contact would prefer to be notified by telephone call, by hospital staff when the emergency contact reaches the hospital, or by some other method. LRB104 07383 BAB 17423 b LRB104 07383 BAB 17423 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1332 Introduced , by Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 210 ILCS 85/11.11 new 210 ILCS 85/11.11 new 210 ILCS 85/11.11 new Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that a hospital licensed under the Act must, at the time a patient is being checked in, give the patient an opportunity to designate an emergency contact to be notified if the patient dies or experiences a significant change in condition. If an emergency contact is designated, hospital staff must communicate with the emergency contact and ask whether the emergency contact would prefer to be notified by telephone call, by hospital staff when the emergency contact reaches the hospital, or by some other method. LRB104 07383 BAB 17423 b LRB104 07383 BAB 17423 b LRB104 07383 BAB 17423 b A BILL FOR HB1332LRB104 07383 BAB 17423 b HB1332 LRB104 07383 BAB 17423 b HB1332 LRB104 07383 BAB 17423 b 1 AN ACT concerning regulation. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by adding 5 Section 11.11 as follows: 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1332 Introduced , by Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 210 ILCS 85/11.11 new 210 ILCS 85/11.11 new 210 ILCS 85/11.11 new Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that a hospital licensed under the Act must, at the time a patient is being checked in, give the patient an opportunity to designate an emergency contact to be notified if the patient dies or experiences a significant change in condition. If an emergency contact is designated, hospital staff must communicate with the emergency contact and ask whether the emergency contact would prefer to be notified by telephone call, by hospital staff when the emergency contact reaches the hospital, or by some other method. LRB104 07383 BAB 17423 b LRB104 07383 BAB 17423 b LRB104 07383 BAB 17423 b A BILL FOR 210 ILCS 85/11.11 new LRB104 07383 BAB 17423 b HB1332 LRB104 07383 BAB 17423 b