Illinois Senate Bill 2427 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-1)
Status: Failed on January 7 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires health care professionals who have continuing education requirements to complete cultural competency training, which shall include information on sensitivity relating to and best practices for providing affirming care to people in the person's preferred language, people with disabilities, documented or undocumented immigrants, people who are intersex, people living with HIV, and people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. Provides that for every license or registration renewal occurring on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a health care professional who has continuing education requirements must complete at least 5 hours in cultural competency training. Provides that for every license or registration renewal occurring on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a person licensed or registered by the Department under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 and who has continuing education requirements must complete at least 10 hours in cultural competency training. Provides that these continuing education hours may count toward meeting the minimum credit hours required for continuing education. Provides for rulemaking. Effective January 1, 2024.

DFPR-HEALTH CARE CULTURAL COMP

Sen. Ram Villivalam [D]	Sen. Susan Rezin [R]	Sen. Celina Villanueva [D]	Sen. Ann Gillespie [D]
Sen. Karina Villa [D]	Sen. Emil Jones [D]	Sen. Rachel Ventura [D]	Sen. Christopher Belt [D]
Sen. Javier Cervantes [D]	Sen. Mike Simmons [D]	Sen. David Koehler [D]	Sen. Robert Peters [D]
Sen. Cristina Pacione-Zayas [D]	Sen. Sara Feigenholtz [D]	Sen. Doris Turner [D]	Sen. Mike Porfirio [D]
Sen. Michael Halpin [D]	Sen. Mary Edly-Allen [D]	Sen. Adriane Johnson [D]	Sen. Laura Murphy [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-07	Senate	Session Sine Die
2023-05-08	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
2023-04-19	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Adriane Johnson
2023-04-18	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
2023-04-18	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Michael W. Halpin
2023-04-18	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Porfirio
2023-04-12	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Doris Turner
2023-04-04	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Sara Feigenholtz
2023-03-24	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Cristina H. Pacione-Zayas
2023-03-24	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Celina Villanueva
2023-03-24	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Sue Rezin
2023-03-23	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Robert Peters
2023-03-23	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. David Koehler
2023-03-22	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Simmons
2023-03-21	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Javier L. Cervantes
2023-03-21	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Christopher Belt
2023-03-10	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2023-03-10	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2023-03-07	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Licensed Activities
2023-03-03	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
2023-03-03	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Ram Villivalam
2023-02-28	Senate	Assigned to Licensed Activities
2023-02-23	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Rachel Ventura
2023-02-16	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III
2023-02-16	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Karina Villa
2023-02-16	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Ann Gillespie
2023-02-10	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2023-02-10	Senate	First Reading
2023-02-10	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Ram Villivalam

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
20	2105	2105-15.8	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2427&GAID=17&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=112&GA=103
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/103/SB/10300SB2427.htm
Amendment	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/103/SB/10300SB2427sam001.htm