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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
State of Illinois 
2025 and 2026
HB2812

Introduced 2/6/2025, by Rep. Paul Jacobs 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

410 ILCS 50/3.2 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5403.2

 Amends the Medical Patient Rights Act. Provides that every health care facility in this State shall permit the next of kin of a patient who is on life support to remain with the patient, at the patient's bedside, irrespective of regular hours of visitation. Provides that health care facilities may institute reasonable policies, including reasonable requirements that promote the health, safety, and welfare of the next of kin, the patient, and the employees and other patients of the health care facility without revoking the basic right afforded to the next of kin of a patient who is on life support. Defines "next of kin".

LRB104 09994 BDA 20064 b

A BILL FOR

HB2812LRB104 09994 BDA 20064 b

1 AN ACT concerning health.

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

3represented in the General Assembly:

4 Section 5. The Medical Patient Rights Act is amended by 

5changing Section 3.2 as follows:

6 (410 ILCS 50/3.2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5403.2)

7 Sec. 3.2. Visitation rights, policies, and procedures. 

8 (a) Every health care facility in this State shall permit 

9visitation by any person or persons designated by a patient 

10who is 18 years of age or older and who is allowed rights of 

11visitation unless (1) the facility does not allow any 

12visitation for a patient or patients, or (2) the facility or 

13the patient's physician determines that visitation would 

14endanger the physical health or safety of a patient or 

15visitor, or would interfere with the operations of the 

16facility.

17 (a-5) Notwithstanding subsection (a), dur