Bill Text: IL SB0137 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act and the Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. Provides that during State Fiscal Years 2023, 2024, and 2025, the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall allow individuals a one-time waiver of fees imposed under relevant provisions of the Acts. Provides that no individual may benefit from such a waiver more than once. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [SB0137 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB0137-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB0137 Introduced 1/24/2023, by Sen. Laura Fine SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 55/57 new
225 ILCS 107/61 new
Amends the Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act and the Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. Provides that during State Fiscal Years 2023, 2024, and 2025, the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall allow individuals a one-time waiver of fees imposed under relevant provisions of the Acts. Provides that no individual may benefit from such a waiver more than once. Effective immediately.
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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 Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act
is amended by adding Section 57 as follows:
(225 ILCS 55/57 new)
Sec. 57. Fee waiver. Notwithstanding any provision of law
to the contrary, during State Fiscal Years 2023, 2024, and
2025, the Department shall allow individuals a one-time waiver
of fees imposed under Sections 30, 35, 45, 55, and 65 of this
Act. No individual may benefit from such a waiver more than
once.
Section 10. The Professional Counselor and Clinical
Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act is amended
by adding Section 61 as follows:
(225 ILCS 107/61 new)
Sec. 61. Fee waiver. Notwithstanding any provision of law
to the contrary, during State Fiscal Years 2023, 2024, and
2025, the Department shall allow individuals a one-time waiver
of fees imposed under Sections 35, 40, 45, 50, 60, and 70 of
this Act. No individual may benefit from such a waiver more

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than once.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.