Section Activities Summary

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Below is a summary of activities of this section from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023. While past activity is no guarantee of future activity, it may give a idea of what to expect this year.

Section Stats

Continuing Legal Education

Section members receive discounts on section-sponsored CLE programs. During the 2022–23 bar year, the Section sponsored the following programs:

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 2022–23 bar year.

Health Care Law

  • Community members: 522
  • Total discussion posts: 84

Transactional

  • Community members: 25,498
  • Total discussion posts: 582

Litigation

  • Community members: 25,497
  • Total discussion posts: 1,794


Legislation

The Section Council reviewed 60 bills that may affect their members’ practice area. Highlights of the most recent legislative session include:

  • House Bill 1434 amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 to make it simpler and business-like to admit hospital or public or private agency records in an adjudicatory hearing concerning an abused, neglected, or dependent minor.
  • House Bill 3955 prohibits hospitals in accordance with specified federal law, from delaying provisions of a required appropriate medical screening examination or further medical examination and treatment for a patient in a hospital's emergency room to inquire about the individual’s method of payment or insurance status.
  • Senate Bill 188 authorizes a parent who consents to a health care service on their child to be entitled to inspect and copy the part of that child’s records related to the specific health care service for which the parent is treated as the child’s personal representative under HIPAA.