Bill Sponsors: IL SB2653 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

Bill Title: Creates the Operating Room Patient Safety Act. Provides that each surgical technologist hired or contracted by a health care facility on or after January 1, 2026 shall meet specified educational, certification, or experiential requirements. Provides that nothing in the Act prohibits an individual from performing surgical technology services if the individual is acting within the scope of the individual's license or registration or is a student or intern under the direct supervision of a licensed health care provider. Provides that a health care facility may employ or otherwise contract with an individual to perform surgical technology services and functions who does not meet those requirements if the health care facility makes a diligent and thorough effort and, after such an effort is completed, the facility is unable to employ or contract with a sufficient number of qualified surgical technologists who satisfy the requirements of the Act. Provides that the health care facility shall maintain documentation of its efforts.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-26 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Jil Tracy [SB2653 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Sponsors

NameTypeSponsorshipDistrictFinancialEncyclopediaBiography
Senator Ram Villivalam [D]PrimarySponsored BillsSD-008FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Javier Cervantes [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-001FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Christopher Belt [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-057FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Laura Murphy [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-028FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Cristina Castro [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-022FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Adriane Johnson [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-030N/ABallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Mary Edly-Allen [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-031FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Karina Villa [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-025FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Mike Porfirio [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-011FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Jil Tracy [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-050FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart

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