Bill Text: IL HB2308 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Radiation Protection Act of 1990. Requires rules or regulations promulgated by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency for registration of persons seeking accreditation to specify that an individual seeking accreditation for limited diagnostic radiography shall not apply ionizing radiation to human beings until the individual has passed an Agency-approved examination and is accredited by the Agency. Removes language requiring the rules or regulations to require persons seeking limited scope accreditation to register with the Agency as a "student-in-training" and to declare those procedures in which the student will be receiving training. Makes other changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-30 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0155 [HB2308 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB2308-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 103-0155
HB2308 Enrolled LRB103 25731 CPF 56182 b
AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Radiation Protection Act of 1990 is amended
by changing Section 6 as follows:
(420 ILCS 40/6) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 210-6)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
Sec. 6. Accreditation of administrators of radiation;
Limited scope accreditation; Rules and regulations; Education.
(a) The Agency shall promulgate such rules and regulations
as are necessary to establish accreditation standards and
procedures, including a minimum course of education and
continuing education requirements in the administration of
radiation to human beings, which are appropriate to the
classification of accreditation and which are to be met by all
physician assistants, advanced practice registered nurses,
nurses, technicians, or other assistants who administer
radiation to human beings under the supervision of a person
licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Such rules
and regulations may provide for different classes of
accreditation based on evidence of national certification,
clinical experience or community hardship as conditions of
initial and continuing accreditation. The rules and

regulations of the Agency shall be consistent with national
standards in regard to the protection of the health and safety
of the general public.
(b) The rules and regulations shall also provide that
persons who have been accredited by the Agency, in accordance
with the Radiation Protection Act, without passing an
examination, will remain accredited as provided in Section 43
of this Act and that those persons may be accredited, without
passing an examination, to use other equipment, procedures, or
supervision within the original category of accreditation if
the Agency receives written assurances from a person licensed
under the Medical Practice Act of 1987, that the person
accredited has the necessary skill and qualifications for such
additional equipment procedures or supervision. The Agency
shall, in accordance with subsection (c) of this Section,
provide for the accreditation of nurses, technicians, or other
assistants, unless exempted elsewhere in this Act, to perform
a limited scope of diagnostic radiography procedures of the
chest, the extremities, skull and sinuses, or the spine, while
under the supervision of a person licensed under the Medical
Practice Act of 1987.
(c) The rules or regulations promulgated by the Agency
pursuant to subsection (a) shall establish standards and
procedures for accrediting persons to perform a limited scope
of diagnostic radiography procedures. The rules or regulations
shall specify that an individual seeking accreditation for

limited diagnostic radiography shall not apply ionizing
radiation to human beings until the individual has passed an
Agency-approved examination and is accredited by the Agency.
The rules or regulations shall require persons seeking limited
scope accreditation to register with the Agency as a
"student-in-training," and declare those procedures in which
the student will be receiving training. The
student-in-training registration shall be valid for a period
of 16 months, during which the time the student may, under the
supervision of a person licensed under the Medical Practice
Act of 1987, perform the diagnostic radiography procedures
listed on the student's registration. The student-in-training
registration shall be nonrenewable.
For an individual Upon expiration of the 16 month training
period, the student shall be prohibited from performing
diagnostic radiography procedures unless accredited by the
Agency to perform such procedures. In order to be accredited
to perform a limited scope of diagnostic radiography
procedures, he or she an individual must pass an examination
approved offered by the Agency. The examination shall be
consistent with national standards in regard to protection of
public health and safety. The examination shall consist of a
standardized component covering general principles applicable
to diagnostic radiography procedures and a clinical component
specific to the types of procedures for which accreditation is
being sought. The Agency may assess a reasonable fee for such

examinations to cover any the costs incurred by the Agency in
conjunction with offering the examinations.
(d) The Agency shall by rule or regulation exempt from
accreditation physician assistants, advanced practice
registered nurses, nurses, technicians, or other assistants
who administer radiation to human beings under supervision of
a person licensed to practice under the Medical Practice Act
of 1987 when the services are performed on employees of a
business at a medical facility owned and operated by the
business. Such exemption shall only apply to the equipment,
procedures and supervision specific to the medical facility
owned and operated by the business.
(Source: P.A. 100-513, eff. 1-1-18.)