Illinois HB4600 strengthens protections for health care at home providers by enhancing penalties for aggravated assault and battery against them and.
HB4600, known as the Health Care at Home Workforce Protection Act, amends the Illinois Criminal Code to enhance penalties for aggravated assault and battery against health care at home providers and their families. The bill defines "health care at home provider" as any employee or volunteer of an Illinois licensed hospice or home health program or a home nursing provider. It introduces the offense of threatening a health care at home provider, which is a Class 4 felony for a first offense and a Class 3 felony for subsequent offenses.
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