Below is a summary of activities of this section from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024. While past activity is no guarantee of future activity, it may give a idea of what to expect this year.
Section Stats
Newsletters
Issues: 4
Discussions
Posts: 53
Legislation
Bills Reviewed: 298
ISBA Central Discussions
ISBA Central communities allows section members to pose questions, answer questions, and share information with fellow section members. Members of the section get free access to the section’s community. Joining any section also grants you access to the Transactional and Litigation communities. Below are the total number of discussion posts during the 2023–24 bar year.
Health Care Law
- Community members: 500
- Total discussion posts: 53
Transactional
- Community members: 29,383
- Total discussion posts: 551
Litigation
- Community members: 29,384
- Total discussion posts: 1,463
Legislation
The Section Council reviewed 298 bills that may affect their members’ practice area. Highlights of the most recent legislative session include:
- Senate Bill 2644 requires the Secretary of State to create an electronic registry, known as the Advance Directive Registry, through which Illinois residents may deposit a Department of Public Health Uniform Practitioner Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form. The ISBA Health Care Section Council created the concept for the Registry in 2017.
- House Bill 5395 creates the Health Care Protection Act. A key initiative of Governor Pritzker, the bill, among other things, eliminates prior authorization for inpatient mental health treatment at participating hospitals.
- House Bill 5405 specifies that any State entity or hospital that receives funding from the National Institutes of Health to conduct clinical trials of drugs or medical devices is required to adopt a policy that will result in the identification and recruitment of person who are members of underrepresented demographic groups to participate in the clinical trials.