(225 ILCS 125/5)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2030)

Sec. 5.

Objects and purposes.

Practice as a
perfusionist in the State of Illinois
is declared to affect the public health, safety, and welfare
and
to be subject to regulation and control in the public interest.  The
purpose and legislative intent
of this Act is to encourage and promote the more effective utilization of the
skills
of physicians by enabling them to delegate
certain health related procedures to perfusionists when
the delegation is consistent with
the health
and welfare of
the
patient and is conducted at the direction of and under the
responsible supervision of the physician.

It is further declared to be a matter of public health and concern that the
practice as a perfusionist merit and receive
the confidence of
the public
and, therefore, that only qualified persons be authorized to practice as
perfusionists in the State of Illinois.  This Act shall be
liberally construed
to best carry
out
these subjects and purposes.

(Source: P.A. 91-580, eff. 1-1-00.)