Rep. Kevin John Olickal

Filed: 5/8/2024

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3467

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3467 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and
5Audiology Practice Act is amended by changing Sections 3.5,
68.5, and 8.6 as follows:
 
7    (225 ILCS 110/3.5)
8    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
9    Sec. 3.5. Exemptions. This Act does not prohibit:
10        (a) The practice of speech-language pathology or
11    audiology by students in their course of study in programs
12    approved by the Department, or the performance of
13    speech-language pathology assistant services by graduates
14    who have obtained degrees as set forth in paragraph (2) of
15    Section 8.5 of the Act, when acting under the direction
16    and supervision of licensed speech-language pathologists

 

 

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1    or audiologists.
2        (b) The performance of any speech-language pathology
3    service by a speech-language pathology assistant or
4    candidate for licensure as a speech-language pathology
5    assistant, if such service is performed under the
6    supervision and full responsibility of a licensed
7    speech-language pathologist. A speech language pathology
8    assistant or candidate for speech-language pathology
9    assistant licensure may perform only those duties
10    authorized by Section 8.7 under the supervision of a
11    speech-language pathologist as provided in Section 8.8.
12        (b-5) The performance of an audiology service by an
13    appropriately trained person if that service is performed
14    under the supervision and full responsibility of a
15    licensed audiologist.
16        (c) The performance of audiometric testing for the
17    purpose of industrial hearing conservation by an
18    audiometric technician certified by the Council of
19    Accreditation for Occupational Hearing Conservation
20    (CAOHC).
21        (d) The performance of an audiometric screening by an
22    audiometric screenings technician certified by the
23    Department of Public Health.
24        (e) The selling or practice of fitting, dispensing, or
25    servicing hearing instruments by a hearing instrument
26    dispenser licensed under the Hearing Instrument Consumer

 

 

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1    Protection Act.
2        (f) A person licensed in this State under any other
3    Act from engaging in the practice for which he or she is
4    licensed.
5        (g) The performance of vestibular function testing by
6    an appropriately trained person under the supervision of a
7    physician licensed to practice medicine in all its
8    branches.
9        (h) The performance of neurophysiologic intraoperative
10    monitoring of the seventh and eighth cranial nerve by an
11    individual certified by the American Board of Registration
12    of Electroencephalographic and Evoked Potential
13    Technologists as Certified in Neurophysiologic
14    Intraoperative Monitoring only if authorized and
15    supervised by the physician performing the surgical
16    procedure.
17(Source: P.A. 100-530, eff. 1-1-18.)
 
18    (225 ILCS 110/8.5)
19    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
20    Sec. 8.5. Qualifications for licenses as a speech-language
21pathology assistant. A person is qualified to be licensed as a
22speech-language pathology assistant if that person has applied
23in writing or electronically on forms prescribed by the
24Department, has paid the required fees, and meets both of the
25following criteria:

 

 

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1        (1) Is of good moral character. In determining moral
2    character, the Department may take into consideration any
3    felony conviction or plea of guilty or nolo contendere of
4    the applicant, but such a conviction or plea shall not
5    operate automatically as a complete bar to licensure.
6        (2) Has either:
7            (A) received an associate degree from a
8        speech-language pathology assistant program that has
9        been approved by the Department and that meets the
10        minimum requirements set forth in Section 8.6; or
11            (B)(i) received a bachelor's degree in
12        speech-language pathology, communication sciences and
13        disorders, or other content area from an accredited
14        college or university that has been approved by the
15        Department and meets the minimum requirements set
16        forth in Section 8.6, and (ii) completed the
17        requirements for certification as a speech-language
18        pathology assistant or completed an equivalent program
19        as determined by the Department by rule.
20        (2) Has received either (i) an associate degree from a
21    speech-language pathology assistant program that has been
22    approved by the Department and that meets the minimum
23    requirements set forth in Section 8.6, (ii) a bachelor's
24    degree and has completed course work from an accredited
25    college or university that meets the minimum requirements
26    set forth in Section 8.6, or (iii) a bachelor's degree in

 

 

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1    speech-language pathology or communication sciences and
2    disorders from a regionally or nationally accredited
3    institution approved by the Department, and evidence of
4    completion of at least 100 hours of documented field work
5    supervised by a licensed speech-language pathologist that
6    is comparable to that completed in a speech-language
7    pathology assistant program in this State.
8(Source: P.A. 103-302, eff. 1-1-24.)
 
9    (225 ILCS 110/8.6)
10    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
11    Sec. 8.6. Minimum requirements for speech-language
12pathology assistant programs.
13    (a) An applicant for licensure as a speech-language
14pathology assistant must have earned 60 semester credit hours
15in a program of study that includes general education and the
16specific knowledge and skills for a speech-language pathology
17assistant. The curriculum of a speech-language pathology
18assistant program must include all of the following content,
19as further provided by rule promulgated by the Department:
20        (1) Twenty-four semester credit hours in general
21    education.
22        (2) Thirty-six semester credit hours in technical
23    content areas designed to provide students with knowledge
24    and skills required for speech-language pathology
25    assistants, which must include (i) an introductory or

 

 

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1    overview course in of normal processes of communication
2    disorders; (ii) phonetics an overview of communication
3    disorders; (iii) speech sound disorders instruction in
4    speech-language pathology assistant-level service
5    delivery practices; (iv) language development instruction
6    in workplace behaviors; (v) language disorders cultural
7    and linguistic factors in communication; and (vi) anatomy
8    and physiology of speech and hearing mechanisms
9    observation.
10        (3) Completion of at least 100 hours of supervised
11    field work experiences supervised by a licensed
12    speech-language pathologist at least 50% of the time when
13    the student is engaged in contact with the patient or
14    client. An applicant must obtain written verification
15    demonstrating successful completion of the required field
16    work experience, including a description of the setting in
17    which the training was received and an assessment of the
18    student's technical proficiency.
19    (b) The Department may promulgate rules that change the
20curriculum requirements of subsection (a) in order to reflect
21the guidelines for speech-language pathology assistant
22programs recommended by the American Speech-Language Hearing
23Association.
24    (c) Any applicant for licensure as a speech-language
25pathology assistant who applies to the Department prior to the
26effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General

 

 

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1Assembly or any person who holds a valid license as a
2speech-language pathology assistant on the effective date of
3this amendatory Act shall not be required to meet the new
4minimum requirements for a speech language pathology assistant
5program under subsection (a) of this Section 8.6 that are
6established by this amendatory Act.
7(Source: P.A. 96-1315, eff. 7-27-10.)
 
8    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
91, 2025.".