104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1594 Introduced 2/4/2025, by Sen. Adriane Johnson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 210 ILCS 50/3.255 Amends the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act. Replaces references to the Emergency Medical Disaster Plan with references to the Public Health and Emergency Medical Plan. LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1594 Introduced 2/4/2025, by Sen. Adriane Johnson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 210 ILCS 50/3.255 210 ILCS 50/3.255 Amends the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act. Replaces references to the Emergency Medical Disaster Plan with references to the Public Health and Emergency Medical Plan. LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1594 Introduced 2/4/2025, by Sen. Adriane Johnson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 210 ILCS 50/3.255 210 ILCS 50/3.255 210 ILCS 50/3.255 Amends the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act. Replaces references to the Emergency Medical Disaster Plan with references to the Public Health and Emergency Medical Plan. LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b A BILL FOR SB1594LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b SB1594 LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b SB1594 LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 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 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems 5 Act is amended by changing Section 3.255 as follows: 6 (210 ILCS 50/3.255) 7 Sec. 3.255. Public Health and Emergency Medical Plan 8 Emergency Medical Disaster Plan. The Department shall develop 9 and implement a Public Health and Emergency Medical Plan an 10 Emergency Medical Disaster Plan to assist emergency medical 11 services personnel and health care facilities in working 12 together in a collaborative way and to provide support in 13 situations where local medical resources are overwhelmed, 14 including but not limited to public health emergencies, as 15 that term is defined in Section 4 of the Illinois Emergency 16 Management Agency Act. As part of the plan, the Department may 17 designate lead hospitals in each Emergency Medical Services 18 region established under this Act and may foster the creation 19 and coordination of volunteer medical response teams that can 20 be deployed to assist when a locality's capacity is 21 overwhelmed. In developing a Public Health and Emergency 22 Medical Plan an Emergency Medical Disaster Plan, the 23 Department shall collaborate with the entities listed in 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1594 Introduced 2/4/2025, by Sen. Adriane Johnson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 210 ILCS 50/3.255 210 ILCS 50/3.255 210 ILCS 50/3.255 Amends the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act. Replaces references to the Emergency Medical Disaster Plan with references to the Public Health and Emergency Medical Plan. LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b A BILL FOR 210 ILCS 50/3.255 LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b SB1594 LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b SB1594- 2 -LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b SB1594 - 2 - LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b SB1594 - 2 - LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b SB1594 - 2 - LRB104 10740 BAB 20819 b