Bill Text: IL HB0309 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Implicit Bias Training for Health Care Professionals Act. Provides that in order to renew a license as a health care professional in the State, a licensee shall complete an evidence-based implicit bias training, which shall include the promotion of bias-reducing strategies to address how unintended biases regarding race, ethnicity, gender, identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics affect the health care industry. Specifies information that shall be included in the implicit bias training. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall adopt rules to implement the Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-27 - House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0309 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB0309-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB0309 Introduced , by Rep. LaToya Greenwood SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Implicit Bias Training for Health Care Professionals Act. Provides that in order to renew a license as a health care professional in the State, a licensee shall complete an evidence-based implicit bias training, which shall include the promotion of bias-reducing strategies to address how unintended biases regarding race, ethnicity, gender, identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics. Specifies information that shall be included in the implicit bias training. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall adopt rules to implement the Act.
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Implicit Bias Training for Health Care Professionals Act.
Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Department" means the Department of Financial and
Professional Regulation.
"Health care professional" means any individual licensed
under the laws of this State to provide health services,
including, but not limited to: dentists licensed under the
Illinois Dental Practice Act; dental hygienists licensed under
the Illinois Dental Practice Act; nurses and advanced practice
registered nurses licensed under the Nurse Practice Act;
occupational therapists licensed under the Illinois
Occupational Therapy Practice Act; optometrists licensed under
the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987; pharmacists
licensed under the Pharmacy Practice Act; physical therapists
licensed under the Illinois Physical Therapy Act; physicians
licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987; physician
assistants licensed under the Physician Assistant Practice Act
of 1987; podiatric physicians licensed under the Podiatric
Medical Practice Act of 1987; clinical psychologists licensed

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under the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act; clinical social
workers licensed under the Clinical Social Work and Social
Work Practice Act; speech-language pathologists and
audiologists licensed under the Illinois Speech-Language
Pathology and Audiology Practice Act; or hearing instrument
dispensers licensed under the Hearing Instrument Consumer
Protection Act.
"Implicit bias" means a bias in judgment or behavior that
results from subtle cognitive processes, including implicit
prejudice and implicit stereotypes that often operate at a
level below conscious awareness and without intentional
control.
"Implicit prejudice" means prejudicial negative feelings
or beliefs about a group that a person holds without being
aware of them.
"Implicit stereotypes" means the unconscious attributions
of particular qualities to a member of a certain social group,
which are influenced by experience and are based on learned
associations between various qualities and social categories,
including race or gender.
Section 10. Implicit bias training.
(a) In order to renew a license as a health care
professional in this State, a licensee shall complete an
evidence-based implicit bias training, which shall include the
promotion of bias-reducing strategies to address how

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unintended biases regarding race, ethnicity, gender, identity,
sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or other
characteristics affect the health care industry.
(b) Implicit bias training implemented pursuant to
subsection (a) shall include all of the following:
(1) identification of previous or current unconscious
biases and misinformation;
(2) identification of personal, interpersonal,
institutional, structural, and cultural barriers to
inclusion;
(3) corrective measures to decrease implicit bias at
the interpersonal and institutional levels, including
ongoing policies and practices for that purpose;
(4) information on the effects, including, but not
limited to, ongoing personal effects, of historical and
contemporary exclusion and oppression of minority
communities;
(5) information about cultural identity across racial
or ethnic groups;
(6) information about communicating more effectively
across identities, including racial, ethnic, religious,
and gender identities;
(7) a discussion on power dynamics and organizational
decision making;
(8) a discussion on health inequities within the
perinatal care field, including information on how

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implicit bias impacts maternal and infant health outcomes;
(9) perspectives of diverse, local constituency groups
and experts on particular racial, identity, cultural, and
provider-community relations issues in the community; and
(10) information on reproductive justice.
Section 15. Rules. The Department shall adopt rules to
implement this Act.