Bill Text: IL SB0602 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning licensure without examination.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB0602 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB0602-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 Pharmacy Practice Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 8 as follows:
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| 6 | (225 ILCS 85/8) (from Ch. 111, par. 4128)
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| 7 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)
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| 8 | Sec. 8. Licensure by endorsement; emergency licensure.
The
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| 9 | The Department may, in its discretion, license
as a pharmacist, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | without examination, on payment of the required fee,
an | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | applicant who is so licensed under the laws of another U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | jurisdiction
or another country, if the requirements for | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | licensure in the other
jurisdiction in which the applicant was | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | licensed, were, at the date
of his or her licensure deemed by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | the Board to be substantially equivalent
to the requirements | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | then in force in this State. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | A person holding an active, unencumbered license in good
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| 18 | standing in another jurisdiction who applies for a license
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| 19 | pursuant to Section 7 of this Act due to a natural disaster or
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| 20 | catastrophic event in another jurisdiction may be temporarily
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| 21 | authorized by the Secretary to practice pharmacy pending the
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| 22 | issuance of the license. This temporary authorization shall | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | expire upon issuance of the license or upon notification that | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | the Department has denied licensure.
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| 2 | Upon a declared Executive Order due to an emergency caused | ||||||
| 3 | by a natural or manmade disaster or any other exceptional | ||||||
| 4 | situation that causes an extraordinary demand for pharmacist | ||||||
| 5 | services, the Department may issue a pharmacist who holds a | ||||||
| 6 | license to practice pharmacy in another state an emergency | ||||||
| 7 | license to practice in this State.
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| 8 | (Source: P.A. 95-689, eff. 10-29-07.)
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