Bill Text: IL SB0669 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Abused and Neglected Long Term Care Facility Residents Reporting Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB0669 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB0669-Introduced.html

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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Nurse Practice Act is amended by changing
Section 70-50 as follows:
(225 ILCS 65/70-50) (was 225 ILCS 65/20-40)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)
Sec. 70-50. Fund.
(a) There is hereby created within the State Treasury the
Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund. The monies in the Fund
may be used by and at the direction of the Department for the
administration and enforcement of this Act, including but not
limited to:
(1) Distribution and publication of this Act and rules.
(2) Employment of secretarial, nursing,
administrative, enforcement, and other staff for the
administration of this Act.
(b) Disposition of fees:
(1) $5 of every licensure fee shall be placed in a fund
for assistance to nurses enrolled in a diversionary program
as approved by the Department.
(2) All of the fees, fines, and penalties collected
pursuant to this Act shall be deposited in the Nursing

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Dedicated and Professional Fund.
(3) Each fiscal year, the moneys deposited in the
Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund shall be
appropriated to the Department for expenses of the
Department and the Board in the administration of this Act.
All earnings received from investment of moneys in the
Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund shall be deposited
in the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund and shall be
used for the same purposes as fees deposited in the Fund.
(3.5) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011 and
for each fiscal year after July 1, 2011, $1,000,000 of the
moneys deposited in the Nursing Dedicated and Professional
Fund shall be set aside and appropriated to the Department
for the administration of the Illinois Center for Nursing
pursuant to Article 75 of this Act.
(4) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2009 and for
each fiscal year thereafter, $2,000,000 of the moneys
deposited in the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund
each year shall be set aside and appropriated to the
Department of Public Health for nursing scholarships
awarded pursuant to the Nursing Education Scholarship Law.
Representatives of the Department and the Nursing
Education Scholarship Program Advisory Council shall
review this requirement and the scholarship awards every 2
years.
(5) Moneys in the Fund may be transferred to the

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Professions Indirect Cost Fund as authorized under Section
2105-300 of the Department of Professional Regulation Law
(20 ILCS 2105/2105-300).
(c) Moneys set aside for nursing scholarships awarded
pursuant to the Nursing Education Scholarship Law as provided
in item (4) of subsection (b) of this Section may not be
transferred under Section 8h of the State Finance Act.
(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-639, eff. 10-5-07;
96-328, eff. 8-11-09; 96-805, eff. 10-30-09.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.