Bill Text: IL HB1572 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. In a provision concerning emergency powers, provides that the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation has the power to issue licenses, including temporary licenses, to health care professionals on an expedited basis in accordance with the rules adopted by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for expedited licensure.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-25 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Joe C. Sosnowski [HB1572 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1572-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1572 Introduced , by Rep. William E Hauter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 2105/2105-400
Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. In a provision concerning emergency powers, provides that the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation has the power to issue licenses, including temporary licenses, to health care professionals on an expedited basis in accordance with the rules adopted by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for expedited licensure.
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A BILL FOR
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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 5. The Department of Professional Regulation Law
of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
changing Section 2105-400 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2105/2105-400)
Sec. 2105-400. Emergency powers.
(a) Upon proclamation of a disaster by the Governor, as
provided for in the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act,
the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation shall
have the following powers, which shall be exercised only in
coordination with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and
the Department of Public Health:
(1) The power to suspend the requirements for
permanent or temporary licensure of persons who are
licensed in another state and are working under the
direction of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and
the Department of Public Health pursuant to a declared
disaster.
(2) The power to modify the scope of practice
restrictions under any licensing act administered by the
Department for any person working under the direction of

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the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and the Illinois
Department of Public Health pursuant to the declared
disaster.
(3) The power to expand the exemption in Section 4(a)
of the Pharmacy Practice Act to those licensed
professionals whose scope of practice has been modified,
under paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of this Section, to
include any element of the practice of pharmacy as defined
in the Pharmacy Practice Act for any person working under
the direction of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency
and the Illinois Department of Public Health pursuant to
the declared disaster.
(4) The power to issue licenses, including temporary
licenses, to health care professionals on an expedited
basis in accordance with the rules adopted by the
Department for expedited licensure.
(b) Persons exempt from licensure under paragraph (1) of
subsection (a) of this Section and persons operating under
modified scope of practice provisions under paragraph (2) of
subsection (a) of this Section shall be exempt from licensure
or be subject to modified scope of practice only until the
declared disaster has ended as provided by law. For purposes
of this Section, persons working under the direction of an
emergency services and disaster agency accredited by the
Illinois Emergency Management Agency and a local public health
department, pursuant to a declared disaster, shall be deemed

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to be working under the direction of the Illinois Emergency
Management Agency and the Department of Public Health.
(c) The Secretary or the Director, as his or her designee,
shall exercise these powers by way of proclamation.
(Source: P.A. 99-227, eff. 8-3-15.)