Bill Text: IL HB5876 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Creates the Illinois Primary Care Workforce Investment Fund for the purposes of providing individuals seeking licensure as an advanced practice nurse with increased opportunities to complete the clinical hours required for licensure and increased access to clinical preceptors who are qualified to teach, supervise, and evaluate these individuals. Provides that the fund is also intended to address the State-wide shortage of a primary care workforce by increasing the number of advanced practice nurses in local health care facilities. Further provides that the fund shall be financed by moneys collected from the proceeds of the penalty imposed on cardholders who violate certain provisions of the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act and from the proceeds of the tax paid by cultivation centers under certain provisions of the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act. Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act and the State Finance Act to make related changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB5876 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB5876-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 HB5876 Introduced , by Rep. Elgie R. Sims, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 65/65-70 new
410 ILCS 130/20
410 ILCS 130/75
410 ILCS 130/200
30 ILCS 105/5.855 new
Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Creates the Illinois Primary Care Workforce Investment Fund for the purposes of providing individuals seeking licensure as an advanced practice nurse with increased opportunities to complete the clinical hours required for licensure and increased access to clinical preceptors who are qualified to teach, supervise, and evaluate these individuals. Provides that the fund is also intended to address the State-wide shortage of a primary care workforce by increasing the number of advanced practice nurses in local health care facilities. Further provides that the fund shall be financed by moneys collected from the proceeds of the penalty imposed on cardholders who violate certain provisions of the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act and from the proceeds of the tax paid by cultivation centers under certain provisions of the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act. Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act and the State Finance Act to make related changes.
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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 Nurse Practice Act is amended by adding
Section 65-70 as follows:
(225 ILCS 65/65-70 new)
Sec. 65-70. Illinois Primary Care Workforce Investment
Fund. The Illinois Primary Care Workforce Investment Fund is
created as a special fund in the State treasury for the purpose
of providing individuals seeking licensure as an APN with
increased opportunities to complete the clinical hours
required for licensure, which shall be achieved in part by
making clinical preceptors qualified to teach, supervise, and
evaluate these individuals more accessible in local health care
facilities. The fund is also intended to address the State-wide
shortage of a primary care workforce by increasing the number
of advanced practice nurses in local health care facilities.
The moneys in this fund shall be used by the Department,
subject to appropriation, to provide monetary assistance to
hospitals, hospital affiliates, ambulatory surgical treatment
centers, nursing schools, community health centers, and any
other licensed health care facilities or non-profit entities
operating in this State for the purpose of providing clinical

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opportunities for individuals studying to be an advanced
practice nurse, including the employment of a clinical
preceptor who is qualified to supervise such individuals. The
fund shall be financed by moneys collected from the proceeds of
the penalty imposed on cardholders under subsection (d) of
Section 75 of the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot
Program Act and from the proceeds of the tax paid by
cultivation centers under subsection (a) of Section 200 of the
Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act.
Section 10. The Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot
Program Act is amended by changing Sections 20, 75, and 200 as
follows:
(410 ILCS 130/20)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)
Sec. 20. Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund.
(a) There is created the Compassionate Use of Medical
Cannabis Fund in the State treasury to be used exclusively for
the direct and indirect costs associated with the
implementation, administration, and enforcement of this Act.
Funds in excess of the direct and indirect costs associated
with the implementation, administration, and enforcement of
this Act shall be used to fund crime prevention programs.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (d) of Section 75 and
in Section 200 of this Act, all All monies collected under this

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Act shall be deposited in the Compassionate Use of Medical
Cannabis Fund in the State treasury. All earnings received from
investment of monies in the Compassionate Use of Medical
Cannabis Fund shall be deposited in the Compassionate Use of
Medical Cannabis Fund.
(c) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the
Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund is not subject to
sweeps, administrative charge-backs, or any other fiscal or
budgetary maneuver that would in any way transfer any amounts
from the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund into any
other fund of the State.
(Source: P.A. 98-122, eff. 1-1-14.)
(410 ILCS 130/75)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)
Sec. 75. Notifications to Department of Public Health and
responses; civil penalty.
(a) The following notifications and Department of Public
Health responses are required:
(1) A registered qualifying patient shall notify the
Department of Public Health of any change in his or her
name or address, or if the registered qualifying patient
ceases to have his or her debilitating medical condition,
within 10 days of the change.
(2) A registered designated caregiver shall notify the
Department of Public Health of any change in his or her

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name or address, or if the designated caregiver becomes
aware the registered qualifying patient passed away,
within 10 days of the change.
(3) Before a registered qualifying patient changes his
or her designated caregiver, the qualifying patient must
notify the Department of Public Health.
(4) If a cardholder loses his or her registry
identification card, he or she shall notify the Department
within 10 days of becoming aware the card has been lost.
(b) When a cardholder notifies the Department of Public
Health of items listed in subsection (a), but remains eligible
under this Act, the Department of Public Health shall issue the
cardholder a new registry identification card with a new random
alphanumeric identification number within 15 business days of
receiving the updated information and a fee as specified in
Department of Public Health rules. If the person notifying the
Department of Public Health is a registered qualifying patient,
the Department shall also issue his or her registered
designated caregiver, if any, a new registry identification
card within 15 business days of receiving the updated
information.
(c) If a registered qualifying patient ceases to be a
registered qualifying patient or changes his or her registered
designated caregiver, the Department of Public Health shall
promptly notify the designated caregiver. The registered
designated caregiver's protections under this Act as to that

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qualifying patient shall expire 15 days after notification by
the Department.
(d) A cardholder who fails to make a notification to the
Department of Public Health that is required by this Section is
subject to a civil infraction, punishable by a penalty of no
more than $150. Moneys collected pursuant to this subsection
(d) shall be deposited into the Illinois Primary Care Workforce
Investment Fund.
(e) A registered qualifying patient shall notify the
Department of Public Health of any change to his or her
designated registered dispensing organization. Registered
dispensing organizations must comply with all requirements of
this Act.
(f) If the registered qualifying patient's certifying
physician notifies the Department in writing that either the
registered qualifying patient has ceased to suffer from a
debilitating medical condition or that the physician no longer
believes the patient would receive therapeutic or palliative
benefit from the medical use of cannabis, the card shall become
null and void. However, the registered qualifying patient shall
have 15 days to destroy his or her remaining medical cannabis
and related paraphernalia.
(Source: P.A. 98-122, eff. 1-1-14.)
(410 ILCS 130/200)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)

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Sec. 200. Tax imposed.
(a) Beginning on the effective date of this Act, a tax is
imposed upon the privilege of cultivating medical cannabis at a
rate of 7% of the sales price per ounce. The proceeds from this
tax shall be deposited into the Illinois Primary Care Workforce
Investment Fund Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund
created under the Nurse Practice Act Compassionate Use of
Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act. This tax shall be paid by a
cultivation center and is not the responsibility of a
dispensing organization or a qualifying patient.
(b) The tax imposed under this Act shall be in addition to
all other occupation or privilege taxes imposed by the State of
Illinois or by any municipal corporation or political
subdivision thereof.
(Source: P.A. 98-122, eff. 1-1-14.)
Section 15. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
Section 5.855 as follows:
(30 ILCS 105/5.855 new)
Sec. 5.855. The Illinois Primary Care Workforce Investment
Fund.