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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 5. The Prenatal Syphilis Act is amended by
5 changing Sections 1 and 2 as follows:
6 (410 ILCS 320/1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4801)
7 Sec. 1. Every appropriate health care professional
8 physician, or other person, attending in a professional
9 capacity a pregnant woman in Illinois, shall test every
10 pregnant person take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of
11 such woman at the time of the first examination, and a second
12 time sample of blood shall be taken or caused to be taken
13 during the third trimester of pregnancy, between 27 through 32
14 weeks of gestation. The These blood specimens collected shall
15 be submitted to a laboratory approved by the Department of
16 Public Health for a serological test for syphilis approved by
17 the State Department of Public Health. In the event that a any
18 such blood test shall show a positive or doubtful result an
19 additional test or tests shall be made. The Such serological
20 test or tests shall, upon request of any provider physician,
21 be made free of charge by the State Department of Public Health
22 or the Health Departments of cities, villages, and
23 incorporated towns maintaining laboratories for the testing of
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1 blood specimens of any woman who resides in that city,
2 village, or incorporated town.
3 The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any
4 woman who objects to such serological tests on the grounds
5 that such tests are contrary to her religious beliefs and
6 practices.
7 (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
8 (410 ILCS 320/2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4802)
9 Sec. 2. In reporting every birth or still birth,
10 appropriate health care professionals physicians and others
11 required to make such reports shall state on the birth
12 certificate or still birth certificate, as the case may be,
13 whether a blood test for syphilis has been made upon a specimen
14 of blood taken from the woman who bore the child for which a
15 birth or still birth certificate is filed, together with the
16 date when the blood specimen was taken and the name of the
17 laboratory making the test. In no event shall the birth or
18 still birth certificate state the result of the test.
19 (Source: Laws 1939, p. 708.)
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