Public Act 095-0022
 		





HB0182 Enrolled
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    AN ACT concerning education.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:

 
    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the 
Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Training Act.
 
    Section 5. Creation of program.   The University of Illinois 
at Chicago and Southern Illinois University shall expand their 
focuses on enrolling, training, and graduating forensic mental 
health professionals by each creating a forensic psychiatry 
fellowship training program at their Colleges of Medicine.
 
    Section 10. Powers and duties under program.   Under the 
forensic psychiatry fellowship training program created under 
Section 5 of this Act, the University of Illinois at Chicago 
and Southern Illinois University shall each have all of the 
following powers and duties:
        (1)  The university's undergraduate and graduate 
    programs may increase their service and training 
    commitments in order to provide mental health care to 
    chronically mentally ill populations in this State.
        (2)  The university shall coordinate service, 
    education, and research in mental health and may work with 
    communities, State agencies, other colleges and 
    universities, private foundations, health care providers, 
    and other interested organizations on innovative 
    strategies to respond to the challenges of providing 
    greater physician presence in the field of forensic 
    psychiatry. However, the majority of the clinical 
    rotations of the fellows must be served in publicly 
    supported programs in this State.
        (3)  The university may establish such clinical and 
    educational centers and may cooperate with other 
    universities and associations as may be necessary to carry 
    out the intent of this Act according to the following 
    priorities:
            (A)  a preference for programs that are designed to 
        enroll, educate, and facilitate the graduation of 
        mental health professionals trained in forensic 
        psychiatry and other forensic mental health 
        sub-specialities; and
            (B)  a preference for public sector programs that 
        involve networking with other agencies, organizations, 
        and institutions that have similar objectives.
 
    Section 15. Program curriculum.   The curriculum for the 
forensic psychiatry fellowship training program created under 
Section 5 of this Act shall be developed in accordance with 
criteria established by the Residency Review Committee of the 
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
 
    Section 20. Funding. The implementation of this Act is 
subject to appropriation.  In a given fiscal year, 75% of the 
total amount appropriated for the purposes of this Act must be 
designated for the University of Illinois at Chicago and 25% of 
the total amount appropriated for the purposes of this Act must 
be designated for Southern Illinois University. From the 
appropriation for the purposes of this Act, the University of 
Illinois at Chicago and Southern Illinois University shall 
negotiate, with agencies providing supervision for forensic 
psychiatric fellows, the reimbursement of the marginal costs 
associated with that supervision, unless the University of 
Illinois at Chicago or Southern Illinois University is 
providing the supervision.  Agencies providing supervision to 
more than one forensic psychiatric fellow may aggregate these 
marginal costs.
 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.