104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1274 Introduced 1/28/2025, by Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 410 ILCS 70/5.2 Amends the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment Act. Provides that a sexual assault services voucher may be used to seek payment for, among other things, taxi services and car-sharing programs. Defines "car-sharing program". LRB104 07372 BDA 17412 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1274 Introduced 1/28/2025, by Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 410 ILCS 70/5.2 410 ILCS 70/5.2 Amends the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment Act. Provides that a sexual assault services voucher may be used to seek payment for, among other things, taxi services and car-sharing programs. Defines "car-sharing program". LRB104 07372 BDA 17412 b LRB104 07372 BDA 17412 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1274 Introduced 1/28/2025, by Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
410 ILCS 70/5.2 410 ILCS 70/5.2
410 ILCS 70/5.2
Amends the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment Act. Provides that a sexual assault services voucher may be used to seek payment for, among other things, taxi services and car-sharing programs. Defines "car-sharing program".
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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 Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency
5 Treatment Act is amended by changing Section 5.2 as follows:
6 (410 ILCS 70/5.2)
7 Sec. 5.2. Sexual assault services voucher.
8 (a) A sexual assault services voucher shall be issued by a
9 treatment hospital, treatment hospital with approved pediatric
10 transfer, or approved pediatric health care facility at the
11 time a sexual assault survivor receives medical forensic
12 services.
13 (b) Each treatment hospital, treatment hospital with
14 approved pediatric transfer, and approved pediatric health
15 care facility must include in its sexual assault treatment
16 plan submitted to the Department in accordance with Section 2
17 of this Act a protocol for issuing sexual assault services
18 vouchers. The protocol shall, at a minimum, include the
19 following:
20 (1) Identification of employee positions responsible
21 for issuing sexual assault services vouchers.
22 (2) Identification of employee positions with access
23 to the Medical Electronic Data Interchange or successor
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1274 Introduced 1/28/2025, by Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
410 ILCS 70/5.2 410 ILCS 70/5.2
410 ILCS 70/5.2
Amends the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment Act. Provides that a sexual assault services voucher may be used to seek payment for, among other things, taxi services and car-sharing programs. Defines "car-sharing program".
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1 system.
2 (3) A statement to be signed by each employee of an
3 approved pediatric health care facility with access to the
4 Medical Electronic Data Interchange or successor system
5 affirming that the Medical Electronic Data Interchange or
6 successor system will only be used for the purpose of
7 issuing sexual assault services vouchers.
8 (c) A sexual assault services voucher may be used to seek
9 payment for any ambulance services, taxi services, car-sharing
10 programs, medical forensic services, laboratory services,
11 pharmacy services, and follow-up healthcare provided as a
12 result of the sexual assault. As used in this subsection,
13 "car-sharing program" has the meaning given to that term in
14 Section 5 of the Car-Sharing Program Act.
15 (d) Any treatment hospital, treatment hospital with
16 approved pediatric transfer, approved pediatric health care
17 facility, health care professional, ambulance provider,
18 laboratory, or pharmacy may submit a bill for services
19 provided to a sexual assault survivor as a result of a sexual
20 assault to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services
21 Sexual Assault Emergency Treatment Program. The bill shall
22 include:
23 (1) the name and date of birth of the sexual assault
24 survivor;
25 (2) the service provided;
26 (3) the charge of service;
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