Bill Text: IL SB0239 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning exemptions from the Act.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-17 - Referred to Assignments [SB0239 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-SB0239-Introduced.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 Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Act is amended by changing Section 16 as follows:
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| 6 | (225 ILCS 37/16)
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| 7 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2029)
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| 8 | Sec. 16. Exemptions. This Act does not prohibit or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | restrict any of the
the
following: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | (1) A person performing the functions and duties of an
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| 11 | environmental health practitioner under the general | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | supervision
of a licensed
environmental health | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | practitioner or licensed professional engineer if that
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| 14 | person (i) is not responsible for the administration or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | supervision of one
or more employees engaged in an | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | environmental health program, (ii)
establishes a method of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | verbal communication with the licensed environmental
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| 18 | health practitioner or licensed professional engineer to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | whom they can refer
and report questions, problems, and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | emergency situations encountered in
environmental health | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | practice, and (iii) has his or her written reports
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| 22 | reviewed monthly by a licensed environmental health | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | practitioner or licensed
professional engineer.
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| 1 | (2) A person licensed in this State under any other | ||||||
| 2 | Act from engaging in
the practice for which he or she is | ||||||
| 3 | licensed.
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| 4 | (3) A person working in laboratories licensed by, | ||||||
| 5 | registered with, or
operated by the State of Illinois.
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| 6 | (4) A person employed by a State-licensed health care | ||||||
| 7 | facility who engages
in the practice of environmental | ||||||
| 8 | health or whose job responsibilities include
ensuring that | ||||||
| 9 | the environment in the health care facility is healthy and | ||||||
| 10 | safe
for employees, patients, and visitors.
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| 11 | (5) A person employed with the Illinois Department of | ||||||
| 12 | Agriculture
who engages in meat and poultry inspections or | ||||||
| 13 | environmental inspections under
the authority of the | ||||||
| 14 | Department of Agriculture.
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| 15 | (6) A person holding a degree of Doctor of Veterinary | ||||||
| 16 | Medicine and
Surgery and licensed under the Veterinary | ||||||
| 17 | Medicine and Surgery Practice Act
of 2004.
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| 18 | (Source: P.A. 92-837, eff. 8-22-02; 93-281, eff. 12-31-03.)
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