Illinois SB 1223: ETHICS-SEXUAL HARASSMENT

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
State of Illinois 
2025 and 2026
SB1223

Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Laura Fine 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

210 ILCS 88/30

210 ILCS 88/38 new

210 ILCS 88/42 new

 Amends the Fair Patient Billing Act. Provides that medical creditors and debt collectors are prohibited from communicating with a patient regarding unpaid charges for the purpose of seeking to collect the charges and initiating a lawsuit or arbitration proceeding against the patient regarding the unpaid charges while an appeal of a health insurance decision is pending or was pending within 180 days. Sets forth provisions concerning medical debt interest under a reasonable payment plan, the applicable interest rate for judgments on medical debt, the effect of medical debt forgiveness on the contractual relationship between the medical creditor and the insurer or payor, and the applicability of the provisions.

LRB104 03269 BAB 13291 b

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SB1223LRB104 03269 BAB 13291 b

1 AN ACT concerning regulation.

2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 

3represented in the General Assembly:

4 Section 5. The Fair Patient Billing Act is amended by 

5changing Section 30 and by adding Sections 38 and 42 as 

6follows:

7 (210 ILCS 88/30)

8 Sec. 30. Pursuing collection action. 

9 (a) Hospitals and their agents may pursue collection 

10action against an uninsured patient only if the following 

11conditions are met:

12 (1) The hospital has complied with the screening 

13 requirements set forth in Section 16 and applied and 

14 exhausted any discount available to a patient under 

15 Section 10 of the Hospital Uninsured Patient Discount Act. 

16 (2) The hospital has given the uninsured patient the 

17 opportunity to:

18 (A) asse