Bill Text: IL HB2280 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the definition of "health care professional" includes a person licensed or registered by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation under the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Makes corresponding changes. Effective January 1, 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-04 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Maura Hirschauer [HB2280 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB2280-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2280 Introduced , by Rep. Dagmara Avelar SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 2105/2105-15.8 new
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.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of Professional Regulation Law
of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
adding Section 2105-15.8 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2105/2105-15.8 new)
Sec. 2105-15.8. Continuing education; health care cultural
competency.
(a) The General Assembly finds and declares the following:
(1) Health and equity and equitable access to
affirming health care are essential values of the State.
However, despite patient demographics in the State
changing rapidly since 2000, the State still does not have
a formal requirement for health care professionals to stay
abreast of the trends needed to meet the social and
cultural needs of an evolving patient base. This lack of
updated social and cultural knowledge by health care
professionals impacts communities of color, people with
disabilities, immigrants with or without status, people
who are intersex, people living with HIV, and LGBTQ+
people, among other populations.
(2) According to a citation in "I Am Not The Doctor For

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You: Physicians' Attitudes About Caring for People With
Disabilities" in the October 2022 edition of Health
Affairs, regarding care for people with disabilities, only
41% of physicians reported that they were very confident
about their ability to provide the same quality of care to
people with disabilities as those without, and just 57% of
physicians strongly agreed that they welcomed people with
disabilities into their practices.
(3) According to the Center for American Progress,
about half of transgender people in the United States have
been mistreated by a health care professional. Per the
2015 U.S. Transgender Survey data for the State, 33% of
those who saw a health care provider in the past year
reported having at least one negative experience related
to being transgender, and 24% of respondents did not see a
doctor when they needed to because of fear of being
mistreated as a transgender person.
(4) According to a survey by Healthgrades in 2022, 25%
of patients said their doctors could benefit from more
training. The number jumps to 29% among non-white patients
in the survey.
(5) Many providers recognize the importance of
cultural competency for their personal education.
According to the Healthgrades survey, 31% of physicians
agree that their level of cultural competency can impact
their ability to provide optimal patient care somewhat or

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a lot. Furthermore, the generational divide among
physicians is strong on additional training that would
better equip them to care for patients of different
gender, racial, sexual, or cultural identities. Two in 5
younger physicians with less than 10 years of training are
interested in additional training. Only one in 5 of older
physicians with more than 20 years of practice express
interest in cultural competency training.
(6) In 2019, the American Medical Association adopted
a policy that included recognition of the importance of
cultural competency to patient experience and treatment
plan adherence and encouraged the implementation of
cultural competency practices across health care settings.
(7) Furthermore, many thousands of health care
professionals in the State, including tens of thousands of
physicians and nurses, are already required to comply with
the cultural competency requirements in the State's
contract with managed care organizations, which states
that contractors shall implement a cultural competence
plan, and covered services shall be provided in a
culturally competent manner by ensuring the cultural
competence of all contractor staff, including clerical to
executive management, and providers.
(8) As a next step to ensuring all health care
professionals are trained and equipped in cultural
competency, the State should join jurisdictions like

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Connecticut, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia to
require that health care professionals be trained in
cultural competency as part of continuing education.
Having such a requirement will increase the ability of
medical providers to meet the social and cultural needs of
their diversifying patient base.
(b) As used in this Section:
"Cultural competency" means a set of integrated attitudes,
knowledge, and skills that enables a health care professional
or organization to care effectively for patients from diverse
cultures, groups, and communities. "Cultural competency"
includes, but is not limited to: (i) applying linguistic
skills to communicate effectively with the target population;
(ii) utilizing cultural information to establish therapeutic
relationships; (iii) eliciting and incorporating pertinent
cultural data in diagnosis and treatment; and (iv)
understanding and applying cultural and ethnic data to the
process of clinic care.
"Health care professional" means a person licensed or
registered by the Department of Financial and Professional
Regulation under the Nurse Practice Act, the Clinical
Psychologist Licensing Act, the Illinois Dental Practice Act,
the Pharmacy Practice Act, the Illinois Physical Therapy Act,
the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987, the Acupuncture
Practice Act, the Illinois Athletic Trainers Practice Act, the
Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act, the

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Dietitian Nutritionist Practice Act, the Naprapathic Practice
Act, the Nursing Home Administrators Licensing and
Disciplinary Act, the Illinois Occupational Therapy Practice
Act, the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987, the
Podiatric Medical Practice Act of 1987, the Respiratory Care
Practice Act, the Professional Counselor and Clinical
Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act, the Sex
Offender Evaluation and Treatment Provider Act, the Illinois
Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Practice Act, the
Perfusionist Practice Act, the Genetic Counselor Licensing
Act, the Licensed Certified Professional Midwife Practice Act,
the Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act, the Behavior
Analyst Licensing Act, the Music Therapy Licensing and
Practice Act, the Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing
Act, and the Orthotics, Prosthetics, and Pedorthics Practice
Act.
(c) The cultural competency training required by this
Section 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, including, but not limited
to, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, pansexual,
asexual, and questioning individuals.
(d) For every license or registration renewal occurring on

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or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd
General Assembly, a health care professional who has
continuing education requirements must complete at least 5
hours in cultural competency training.
(e) For every license or registration renewal occurring on
or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd
General Assembly, 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.
(f) The hours required by this Section may count toward
meeting the minimum credit hours required for continuing
education. Any cultural competency training applied to meet
any other State licensure requirement, professional
accreditation or certification requirement, or health care
institutional practice agreement may count toward the
requirements under this Section.
(g) The Department may adopt rules for the implementation
and administration of this Section.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
1, 2024.