Bill Text: IL HB2274 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Practice Act. Provides that a person is qualified to be licensed as a speech-language pathology assistant if the person meets specified requirements and that person has received a bachelor's degree in speech-language pathology or communication sciences and disorders from a regionally or nationally accredited institution approved by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and evidence of completion of at least 100 hours of documented field work supervised by a licensed speech-language pathologist that is comparable to that completed in a speech-language pathology assistant program in this State.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 13-3)
Status: (Passed) 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0302 [HB2274 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB2274-Chaptered.html
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| Public Act 103-0302 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and
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Audiology Practice Act is amended by changing Section 8.5 as | ||||
follows:
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(225 ILCS 110/8.5)
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(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
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Sec. 8.5. Qualifications for licenses as a speech-language | ||||
pathology
assistant. A person is qualified to be licensed as a | ||||
speech-language
pathology assistant if that person has applied | ||||
in writing or electronically on forms prescribed
by the | ||||
Department, has paid the required fees, and meets both of the | ||||
following
criteria:
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(1) Is of good moral character. In determining moral | ||||
character, the
Department
may take into consideration any | ||||
felony conviction or plea of guilty or nolo contendere of | ||||
the
applicant, but such a conviction or plea shall not | ||||
operate automatically as a complete
bar to licensure.
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(2) Has received either (i) an associate degree from a | ||||
speech-language pathology
assistant
program that has been | ||||
approved by the Department and
that meets the minimum | ||||
requirements set forth in Section 8.6, or (ii) a | ||||
bachelor's degree and has completed course work from an | ||
accredited college or university that meets the minimum | ||
requirements set forth in Section 8.6, or (iii) a | ||
bachelor's degree in speech-language pathology or | ||
communication sciences and disorders from a regionally or | ||
nationally accredited institution approved by the | ||
Department, and evidence of completion of at least 100 | ||
hours of documented field work supervised by a licensed | ||
speech-language pathologist that is comparable to that | ||
completed in a speech-language pathology assistant program | ||
in this State.
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(Source: P.A. 100-530, eff. 1-1-18.)
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