Bill Text: IL HB1496 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. In provisions requiring applicants for a dental license who did not graduate from a dental school in the United States or Canada to complete 2 years of general dental clinical training in the United States or Canada prior to licensure, removes provisions allowing the applicant to substitute other forms of training and requiring the applicant to have received specified certification from a dean of an approved college or school in the United States or Canada or a program director of an advanced dental education program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-08-14 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0366 [HB1496 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB1496-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 099-0366
HB1496 Enrolled LRB099 03828 HAF 23842 b
AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Dental Practice Act is amended by
changing Section 9 as follows:
(225 ILCS 25/9) (from Ch. 111, par. 2309)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016)
Sec. 9. Qualifications of Applicants for Dental Licenses.
The Department shall require that each applicant for a license
to practice dentistry shall:
(a) (Blank).
(b) Be at least 21 years of age and of good moral
character.
(c) (1) Present satisfactory evidence of completion of
dental education by graduation from a dental college or
school in the United States or Canada approved by the
Department. The Department shall not approve any dental
college or school which does not require at least (A) 60
semester hours of collegiate credit or the equivalent in
acceptable subjects from a college or university before
admission, and (B) completion of at least 4 academic years
of instruction or the equivalent in an approved dental
college or school that is accredited by the Commission on

Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association;
or
(2) Present satisfactory evidence of completion of
dental education by graduation from a dental college or
school outside the United States or Canada and provide
satisfactory evidence that: (A) (blank); (B) the applicant
has completed a minimum of 2 academic years of general
dental clinical training at a dental college or school in
the United States or Canada approved by the Department. ,
however, an accredited advanced dental education program
approved by the Department of no less than 2 years may be
substituted for the 2 academic years of general dental
clinical training and an applicant who was enrolled for not
less than one year in an approved clinical program prior to
January 1, 1993 at an Illinois dental college or school
shall be required to complete only that program; and
(C) the applicant has received certification from
the dean of an approved dental college or school in the
United States or Canada or the program director of an
approved advanced dental education program stating
that the applicant has achieved the same level of
scientific knowledge and clinical competence as
required of all graduates of the college, school, or
advanced dental education program.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent
either the Department or any dental college or school from

establishing higher standards than specified in this Act.
(d) (Blank).
(e) Present satisfactory evidence that the applicant
has passed both parts of the National Board Dental
Examination administered by the Joint Commission on
National Dental Examinations and has successfully
completed an examination conducted by one of the following
regional testing services: the Central Regional Dental
Testing Service, Inc. (CRDTS), the Southern Regional
Testing Agency, Inc. (SRTA), the Western Regional
Examining Board (WREB), the North East Regional Board
(NERB), or the Council of Interstate Testing Agencies
(CITA). For purposes of this Section, successful
completion shall mean that the applicant has achieved a
minimum passing score as determined by the applicable
regional testing service. The Secretary may suspend a
regional testing service under this subsection (e) if,
after proper notice and hearing, it is established that (i)
the integrity of the examination has been breached so as to
make future test results unreliable or (ii) the test is
fundamentally deficient in testing clinical competency.
In determining professional capacity under this Section,
any individual who has not been actively engaged in the
practice of dentistry, has not been a dental student, or has
not been engaged in a formal program of dental education during
the 5 years immediately preceding the filing of an application

may be required to complete such additional testing, training,
or remedial education as the Board may deem necessary in order
to establish the applicant's present capacity to practice
dentistry with reasonable judgment, skill, and safety.
(Source: P.A. 96-14, eff. 6-19-09; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10;
96-1222, eff. 7-23-10; 97-526, eff. 1-1-12; 97-1013, eff.
8-17-12.)