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Legislative Activities

Illinois Legislative Proposals Related to Workforce

Work Environment

  • HB 5033: Nursing Care and Quality Improvement Act, sponsored by Rep. Flowers (D-31).  Creates new Act mandating hospitals to implement nurse-patient ratios.
    - IHA Summary of HB 5033
  • HB 2285: Safe Patient Handling, introduced by Rep. Coulson (R- 17). Amends the Hospital Licensing Act, Nursing Home Care Act and others to require adoption and implementation of policy to control risk of injury to patients/nurses and other health care workers involved in lifting, transferring, repositioning or  movement of patients.
  • SB 1369: State Facility Overtime Act, introduced by Sen. Frerichs (D-52). Prohibits the use of mandated overtime in state facilities.
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    Licensure

    All:

    • HB 2337: IDFPR Licensure Revocations, introduced by Rep. Saviano (R-77). Imposes 3 year prohibition on reapplying for IDFPR licensure following licensure revocation with exceptions for revocations related to default on education loans and child support payments.

    Nursing:
  • HB 226/SB 385: Home Birth Safety Act, introduced by Rep. Hamos (D-18) and Sen. Haine (D-56). Creates new category of licensure for lay midwives to assist out-of-hospital deliveries. Sets forth provisions concerning qualifications, grounds for disciplinary action, and administrative procedures.
  • HB 2395: Delegation – NPA, introduced by Rep. Saviano (R-77). Amends the Nurse Practice Act to exclude prepackaged meds administered to detainees in correctional facilities from "medication administration" requirement that restricts the delegation of nursing activities, including medication administration, to only other licensed nurses.
  • HB 2512: Nurse Licensure Compact, introduced by Rep. Pihos (R-42). Amends the Nurse Practice Act to allow for reciprocity of licensure of licensed practical nurses and registered nurses among the states.
  • HB 2622: Nurse Assistant Certification Act, introduced by Rep. Jakobsson (D-103). Provides that a person practicing as a certified nurse assistant must be certified by IDPH by July 2010 and that no person may represent himself/herself as CAN or use title unless they are certified by the Department. Only facilities licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act are impacted by this proposal.
  • HB 3707: Certified Professional Midwife Licensure Act, introduced by Rep. Flowers (D-31). Provides for the regulation of persons providing midwifery services through licensure by IDFPR.
  • HB 3759: Nurse Practice Act - Puerto Rico, introduced by Rep. Berrios (D-39) and Rep. Acevedo (D-2). Amends Nurse Practice Act to impact licensure qualifications by providing that "another state of the United States" means the District of Columbia, any territory of the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa or U.S. Virgin Islands. 

    • APN:
  • HB 1014/SB 1371:Prescriptive Authority – NPA, introduced by Rep. Saviano (R-77) and Sen. Crotty (D-19). Amends the Nurse Practice Act and others to allow for prescriptive authority delegated to advanced practice nurses for certain controlled substances, including Schedule II controlled substances and provides for the licensure of an APN as a CRNA who does not have the required graduate degree, provided that he or she applies for licensure before July 1, 2018, and submits certain information to the Department.
  • SB 1600: Written Collaborative Agreements, introduced by Sen. Steans (D- 7). Amends the Nurse Practice Act to eliminate written collaborative agreement throughout the Act. Provides that an advanced practice nurse's scope of practice includes collaboration and consultation with or referral to a physician or other appropriate health-care professional for patient care needs that exceed the APN's scope of practice, education, or experience.
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    Physician:

    • HB 64/SB 318: Medical Practice - Delegation, introduced by Rep. Saviano (R-77) and Sen. Silverstein (D-8). Amends the Medical Practice Act to explicitly allow physicians to delegate tasks or duties to licensed or unlicensed personnel who have the training or experience to perform the tasks or duties so delegated.
    • HB 496: Medical Practice - Fee Splitting, introduced by Rep. Miller (D-29). Amends the Medical Practice Act to make changes concerning the prohibition against fee splitting.

    Physician Assistant:
    • HB 2464: Physician Assistant Practice - Supervision, introduced by Rep. Coulson (R-17). Amends the Physician Assistant Act to remove the limitation that physicians may not supervise more than two physician assistants and requires that the supervising physician must file a notice of supervision with IDFPR for each physician assistant under his or her supervision.
    • SB 1487: Physician Assistant - Supervision Suspension, introduced by Sen. Demuzio (D-49). Amends the Physician Assistant Practice Act to allow for less stringent supervision requirements by physicians for physician assistants during emergency events or for local and state disasters.

    Respiratory Therapy:
    • SB 1402: Respiratory Care - Exemption, introduced by Sen. Crotty (D-19). Amends the Respiratory Care Practice Act to include persons enrolled in a respiratory care education program within exemption category and eligible for employment to deliver respiratory care services under direction of another authorized licensed person.

    Perfusionist:

    • HB 2398: Perfusionist Practice Act, introduced by Rep. Saviano (R-77). Amends the Perfusionist Practice Act to exempt a new graduate who performs perfusion services for a period of 14 months after he or she graduates from an accredited perfusion education program so long as the graduate is under the direct supervision of a licensed perfusionist or a physician. Among other changes, also allows IDFPR to adopt rules for continuing education per two-year license renewal cycle.

    Pharmacy:

    • HB 1293/SB 1383: Pharmacy Practice Act, introduced by Rep. Saviano (R-77). Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act to create a new category of licensure for Student Pharmacists (currently referred to as "Pharmacy Interns"). Removes requirement for Student Pharmacists to be Pharmacy Technicians and expands the scope of practice for Student Pharmacists in allowing students to perform any and all functions delegated by the pharmacist.

    Education
  • HB 79: Higher Education Scholarship Act, introduced by Rep. Lang (D-16). Creates new Act to provide merit-based scholarship funding for all eligible Illinois residents at any private or public school. Subject to appropriations.
  • HB 168: Higher Education Achieve Program, introduced by Rep. Coulson (R-17). Amends Higher Education Student Assistance Act to provide need-based grant awards to eligible students in "Clinical Center Achieve Program" at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Subject to appropriations.
  • HB 169/SB 77: Income Tax – College Savings Plan, introduced by Rep. Verschoore (D-72) and Sen. Claybourne (D-57). Amends Higher Education Student Assistance Act to encourage employers to contribute to employee contributions to prepaid college savings programs by creating an income tax credit for employers who, during the taxable year, make a matching donation on behalf of an employee. Provides that the credit is 25% of the matching donation, but not to exceed $500 per employee.
  • HB 382: Nurse Educator Scholarships, introduced by Rep. Brosnahan (D-36). Amends Nurse Education Scholarship law requiring IDPH to provide nurse educator scholarships, to be awarded for a period of up to 3 years. Provides that within 12 months after graduation from a graduate degree in nursing program for nurse educators, a scholarship recipient shall begin meeting a nurse educator employment obligation for at least 2 years for each year of scholarship assistance. Also amends NPA to provide for increased funding to Nursing Dedicated and Professional fund, from current $1.2M to $2.M.
  • HB 4149: Women's Health Care - Nurse Tuition, introduced by Rep. Tracy (R-93). Proposes tuition assistance for nursing students who upon graduation are willing to commit at least 5 years to working in the area of women's health care.
  • SB 1862/HB 4018: IBHE - Health Services Ed, introduced by Sen. Maloney (D-18) and Rep. Miller (D-29). Provides for a supplemental appropriation of $21 million from the General Revenue Fund to IBHE for grants authorized by the Health Services Education Grants.