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Short title. This Act may be cited as the Prenatal Syphilis Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
Illinois · statute · 410 ILCS 320 · 4 active provisions
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Prenatal Syphilis Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
Every appropriate health care professional attending in a professional capacity a pregnant woman in Illinois shall test every pregnant person at the time of the first examination and a second time during the third trimester of pregnancy, between 27 through 32 weeks of gestation. The specimens collected shall be submitt…
(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-71) Sec. 2. In reporting every birth or still birth, physicians and others required to make such reports shall state on the birth certificate or still birth certificate, as the case may be, whether a blood test for syphilis has been made upon a specimen of blood taken from…
This act shall be administered by the State Department of Public Health. (Source: Laws 1939, p. 708.)