Bill Text: IL HB3435 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: Amends the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act. Provides that, if a state licensed health or mental health professional with a valid license from another state or territory is operating under the auspices of the American Red Cross, the professional may practice in the State to the extent authorized by the Act as if the practitioner were licensed in the State, regardless of whether an emergency declaration is in effect.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: (Passed) 2025-08-15 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0306 [HB3435 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2025-HB3435-Enrolled.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health | ||||||
| 5 | Practitioners Act is amended by changing Section 6 as follows:
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| 6 | (225 ILCS 140/6) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 6. Recognition of volunteer health practitioners | ||||||
| 8 | licensed in other states. | ||||||
| 9 | (a) While an emergency declaration is in effect, a | ||||||
| 10 | volunteer health practitioner, registered with a registration | ||||||
| 11 | system that complies with Section 5 and licensed and in good | ||||||
| 12 | standing in the state upon which the practitioner's | ||||||
| 13 | registration is based, may practice in this State to the | ||||||
| 14 | extent authorized by this Act as if the practitioner were | ||||||
| 15 | licensed in this State. If a state licensed health or mental | ||||||
| 16 | health professional with a valid license from another state or | ||||||
| 17 | territory is operating under the auspices of the American Red | ||||||
| 18 | Cross, the professional may practice in this State to the | ||||||
| 19 | extent authorized by this Act as if the practitioner were | ||||||
| 20 | licensed in this State, regardless of whether an emergency | ||||||
| 21 | declaration is in effect. | ||||||
| 22 | (b) A volunteer health practitioner qualified under | ||||||
| 23 | subsection (a) is not entitled to the protections of this Act | ||||||
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| 1 | if any license of the practitioner is suspended, revoked, or | ||||||
| 2 | subject to an agency order limiting or restricting practice | ||||||
| 3 | privileges, or has been voluntarily terminated under threat of | ||||||
| 4 | sanction. | ||||||
| 5 | (Source: P.A. 96-983, eff. 1-1-11.) | ||||||