Bill Text: IL SB1664 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act. Provides that for an individual licensed under the Act, 24 hours of continuing education credits are required for every 2-year licensing period. Provides specified credit requirements for the 24-hour continuing education requirement. Provides that continuing education credit hours shall not be required to be completed in person. Effective October 1, 2024.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-10 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB1664 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB1664-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,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 13 as follows:
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| 6 | (225 ILCS 15/13) (from Ch. 111, par. 5363) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sec. 13. License renewal; restoration. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | (a) The expiration date and renewal
period for each | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | license
issued under this Act shall be set by rule. Every | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | holder of a license
under this Act may renew such license | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | during the 90-day period immediately
preceding the
expiration | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | date thereof upon payment of the required renewal fees and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | demonstrating compliance with any continuing education | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | requirements. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | For an individual licensed under this Act, 24 hours of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | continuing education credits are required for every 2-year | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | licensing period. Of the 24 hours of continuing education | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | required under this Section: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | (1) at least 3 of the required hours shall include | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | content related to ethics; and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | (2) at least 3 of the required hours shall include | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | content related to diversity. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | Continuing education credit hours shall not be required to be | ||||||
| 2 | completed in person. The Department shall adopt rules | ||||||
| 3 | establishing minimum requirements of continuing education and | ||||||
| 4 | means for verification of the completion of the continuing | ||||||
| 5 | education requirements. The Department may, by rule, specify | ||||||
| 6 | circumstances under which the continuing education | ||||||
| 7 | requirements may be waived. | ||||||
| 8 | A clinical psychologist who has permitted his or her | ||||||
| 9 | license to expire or
who
has had his or her license on inactive | ||||||
| 10 | status may have his or her
license restored
by
making | ||||||
| 11 | application to the Department and filing proof acceptable to | ||||||
| 12 | the
Department, as defined by rule, of his or her fitness to | ||||||
| 13 | have his or her license restored,
including evidence
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| 14 | certifying to active practice in another jurisdiction | ||||||
| 15 | satisfactory to the
Department and by paying the required | ||||||
| 16 | restoration fee. | ||||||
| 17 | If the clinical psychologist has not maintained an active | ||||||
| 18 | practice in
another jurisdiction satisfactory to the | ||||||
| 19 | Department, the Board shall
determine, by an evaluation | ||||||
| 20 | program established by rule, his or her fitness
to
resume | ||||||
| 21 | active status and may require the clinical psychologist to | ||||||
| 22 | complete
a period of supervised professional experience and | ||||||
| 23 | may require successful
completion of an examination. | ||||||
| 24 | However, any clinical psychologist whose license expired | ||||||
| 25 | while he or she
was (1)
in Federal Service on active duty with | ||||||
| 26 | the Armed Forces of the United
States, or the State Militia | ||||||
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| 1 | called into service or training, or (2) in
training or | ||||||
| 2 | education under the supervision of the United States
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| 3 | preliminary to induction into the military service, may have | ||||||
| 4 | his or her
license
renewed or restored without paying any | ||||||
| 5 | lapsed renewal fees if within 2
years after honorable | ||||||
| 6 | termination of such service, training or education he
or she | ||||||
| 7 | furnishes the Department with satisfactory evidence to the | ||||||
| 8 | effect
that he
or she has been so engaged and that his or her | ||||||
| 9 | service, training or
education has been
so terminated. | ||||||
| 10 | (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the | ||||||
| 11 | following requirements for restoration of an inactive or | ||||||
| 12 | expired license of less than 5 years as set forth in subsection | ||||||
| 13 | (a) are suspended for any licensed clinical psychologist who | ||||||
| 14 | has had no disciplinary action taken against his
or her | ||||||
| 15 | license in this State or in any other jurisdiction during the | ||||||
| 16 | entire period of licensure: proof of fitness, certification of | ||||||
| 17 | active practice in another jurisdiction, and the payment of a | ||||||
| 18 | renewal fee. An individual may not restore his or her license | ||||||
| 19 | in accordance with this subsection more than once. | ||||||
| 20 | (Source: P.A. 102-1053, eff. 6-10-22.)
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| 21 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect October | ||||||
| 22 | 1, 2024.
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