(410 ILCS 315/1.2)
    Sec. 1.2. State Guidelines for Communicable Disease Prevention.
    (a) The Director of Public Health shall provide State Guidelines for Communicable Disease Prevention for which there is an immunization or medical countermeasure. The Guidelines shall address the use of immunizations and may include recommendations for the administration of products such as vaccines or immune globulin preparations that are defined as immunizations or medical countermeasures and shown to be effective in controlling a disease for which an immunization is available. The Guidelines for the use of unlicensed but regulated immunizations or medical countermeasures may be developed based on medical and scientific evidence if circumstances warrant. For each immunization or medical countermeasure, the Guidelines shall include population groups or circumstances in which a vaccine or related immunization agent is recommended. The Director of Public Health shall also provide recommendations on contraindications and precautions for the use of the immunizations and medical countermeasures and provide information on recognized adverse events. The Director also may provide recommendations that address the general use of immunization products and special situations or populations that may warrant modification of the routine recommendations.
    (b) The Guidelines shall include consideration of disease epidemiology and the burden of disease, immunization safety, immunization efficacy and effectiveness, the quality of evidence reviewed, economic analyses, and implementation issues. The Director of Public Health may revise or withdraw recommendations regarding a particular immunization or medical countermeasure as new information on disease epidemiology, immunization effectiveness or safety, economic considerations, or other data become available.
    (c) In developing these Guidelines, the Director may consider the advice, recommendations, and feedback of:
        (1) the Medical Director of the Department of Public
    
Health;
        (2) the Immunization Advisory Committee;
        (3) the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
    
of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
        (4) medical and scientific experts in the field of
    
disease prevention; and
        (5) other widely accepted sources of medical and
    
scientific evidence, such as recommendations from the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
    (d) The Department of Public Health shall publish Guidelines or recommendations issued by the Director on the Department's website. The Department of Public Health or the Director shall not endanger the public health by publishing or endorsing public health guidelines or recommendations that significantly deviate from evidence-based immunization practices established by credible scientific and medical communities, experts, and practitioners.
(Source: P.A. 104-439, eff. 12-2-25.)