Bill > SB2790

This bill, known as the Expanded Access to Lung Cancer Screening Act, mandates that the Department of Public Health (IDPH) ensure information and counseling about lung cancer screening are provided to individuals who contact the tobacco quitline, a free resource for those wanting to quit smoking. The IDPH is authorized to contract with and provide grants to organizations that operate these quitlines, and they must develop signage for retailers of tobacco products and nicotine replacement therapies (which are treatments like patches or gum that help people quit smoking by providing nicotine without harmful chemicals) to display, including information on who is eligible for screening and how to get it. Additionally, the IDPH will create an educational insert to be given to every customer purchasing tobacco products or nicotine replacement therapies, detailing the benefits and eligibility for lung cancer screening and providing quitline contact information; retailers who intentionally fail to comply with these signage and insert requirements will face a petty offense. The IDPH is also required to adopt rules to implement these provisions.

Health and Social Services

https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=2790&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=114&GA=104