Illinois Senate Bill 1277 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Failed on January 7 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Provides that registered professional nursing practice is a scientific process founded on a professional body of knowledge. It is a learned profession based on the understanding of the human condition across the life span and environment, includes all nursing specialties, and means the performance of any nursing act based upon professional knowledge, judgment, and skills acquired by means of completion of an approved professional nursing education program. Provides that registered professional nurses may delegate nursing interventions and tasks (rather than nursing interventions) to other registered professional nurses and licensed practical nurses based on a comprehensive nursing assessment. Provides that registered professional nurses may delegate tasks to unlicensed personnel based on a comprehensive nursing assessment. Provides that a registered professional nurse is prohibited from delegating work requiring nursing knowledge, assessment, judgment, inference, decision making (including medication administration), the development of a plan of care, and the evaluation of a plan of care to unlicensed non-nurse personnel. Removes provisions concerning delegation of nursing interventions and administration of medications in community-based or in-home care settings. Makes other changes. Effective August 1, 2023.

NURSING-DELEGATION

Sen. Mattie Hunter [D]	Sen. Robert Peters [D]	Sen. Doris Turner [D]	Sen. David Koehler [D]
Sen. Adriane Johnson [D]	Sen. Emil Jones [D]	Sen. Laura Murphy [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-07	Senate	Session Sine Die
2023-03-10	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2023-02-28	Senate	Re-referred to Health and Human Services
2023-02-28	Senate	Re-referred to Assignments
2023-02-16	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
2023-02-15	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. David Koehler
2023-02-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III
2023-02-14	Senate	Assigned to Licensed Activities
2023-02-10	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Doris Turner
2023-02-10	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Adriane Johnson
2023-02-08	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Robert Peters
2023-02-03	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2023-02-03	Senate	First Reading
2023-02-03	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Mattie Hunter

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
225	65	5-10	Amended Code	Citation Text
225	65	50-10	Amended Code	Citation Text
225	65	50-75	Amended Code	Citation Text
225	65	60-35	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1277&GAID=17&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=112&GA=103
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/103/SB/10300SB1277.htm