Bill Text: IL SB0145 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Enrolled
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Bill Title: Amends the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987. Provides that the collaborating physician shall file with the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation notice of employment, discharge, or collaboration with a physician assistant within 60 days (rather than at the time) of employment, discharge, or assumption of collaboration with a physician assistant. Provides that nothing in the amendatory Act shall prevent a physician assistant from beginning his or her employment before the notice of employment or collaboration has been filed.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2022-05-06 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0735 [SB0145 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-SB0145-Enrolled.html
Bill Title: Amends the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987. Provides that the collaborating physician shall file with the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation notice of employment, discharge, or collaboration with a physician assistant within 60 days (rather than at the time) of employment, discharge, or assumption of collaboration with a physician assistant. Provides that nothing in the amendatory Act shall prevent a physician assistant from beginning his or her employment before the notice of employment or collaboration has been filed.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2022-05-06 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0735 [SB0145 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-SB0145-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,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987 is | ||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 6 as follows:
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| 6 | (225 ILCS 95/6) (from Ch. 111, par. 4606)
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| 7 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
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| 8 | Sec. 6. Physician assistant title.
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| 9 | (a) No physician assistant shall use
the title of doctor, | ||||||
| 10 | physician, or associate with his or her name or any other term | ||||||
| 11 | that
would indicate to other persons that he or she is | ||||||
| 12 | qualified to engage in the
general practice of medicine.
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| 13 | (b) A physician assistant shall verbally identify himself | ||||||
| 14 | or herself as a physician assistant, including specialty | ||||||
| 15 | certification, to each patient. | ||||||
| 16 | (c) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to relieve a | ||||||
| 17 | physician assistant of the professional or legal | ||||||
| 18 | responsibility for the care and treatment of persons attended | ||||||
| 19 | by him or her.
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| 20 | (d) The collaborating physician shall file with the | ||||||
| 21 | Department notice of
employment, discharge, or collaboration | ||||||
| 22 | with a physician assistant within 60 days at the
time of | ||||||
| 23 | employment, discharge, or assumption of collaboration with a
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| 1 | physician assistant. Nothing in this Section shall prevent a | ||||||
| 2 | physician assistant from beginning his or her employment | ||||||
| 3 | before the notice of employment or collaboration has been | ||||||
| 4 | filed.
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| 5 | (Source: P.A. 100-453, eff. 8-25-17.)
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