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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4836
Introduced 02/04/04, by Jack McGuire SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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225 ILCS 46/25 |
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225 ILCS 46/65 |
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Amends the Health Care Worker Background Check Act. Prohibits a health care employer from employing or retaining an individual in a position with duties involving direct care who have committed specific offenses. Removes theft of lost or mislaid property from the list of offenses. Requires that the Health Care Worker Task Force issue an interim report to the Governor and General Assembly no later than September 1, 2004 (rather than January 1, 2004). Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning health care workers.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Health Care Worker Background Check Act is |
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| amended by changing Sections 25 and 65 as follows:
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| (225 ILCS 46/25)
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| Sec. 25. Persons ineligible to be hired by health care |
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| employers.
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| (a) No
After January 1, 1996, or January 1, 1997, as |
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| applicable, no
health care employer shall knowingly hire, |
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| employ, or retain any
individual in a position with duties |
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| involving direct care for clients,
patients, or residents, who |
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| has been convicted of committing or attempting to
commit one or |
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| more of the offenses defined in Sections 8-1.1, 8-1.2, 9-1,
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| 9-1.2, 9-2, 9-2.1, 9-3, 9-3.1, 9-3.2, 9-3.3, 10-1, 10-2, 10-3, |
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| 10-3.1, 10-4,
10-5, 10-7, 11-6, 11-9.1, 11-19.2, 11-20.1, 12-1, |
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| 12-2, 12-3, 12-3.1,
12-3.2, 12-4, 12-4.1, 12-4.2, 12-4.3, |
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| 12-4.4, 12-4.5, 12-4.6, 12-4.7, 12-7.4,
12-11, 12-13, 12-14, |
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| 12-14.1, 12-15, 12-16, 12-19, 12-21, 12-21.6, 12-32,
12-33, |
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| 16-1, 16-1.3,
16A-3, 17-3, 18-1, 18-2, 18-3, 18-4, 18-5, 19-1, |
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| 19-3, 19-4, 20-1, 20-1.1,
24-1, 24-1.2, 24-1.5, or 33A-2 of the |
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| Criminal Code of 1961; those provided in
Section 4 of the |
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| Wrongs to Children Act; those provided in Section 53 of the
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| Criminal Jurisprudence Act; those defined in Section 5, 5.1, |
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| 5.2, 7, or 9 of
the Cannabis Control Act; or those defined in |
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| Sections 401, 401.1, 404, 405,
405.1, 407, or 407.1 of the |
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| Illinois Controlled Substances Act, unless the
applicant or |
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| employee obtains a waiver pursuant to Section 40.
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| (a-1) After January 1, 2004, no health care employer shall |
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| knowingly hire, employ, or retain
any individual in a position |
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| with duties involving direct care for clients,
patients, or |
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| residents who has (i) been convicted of committing or |
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| attempting
to commit one or more of the offenses defined in |
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| Section 12-3.3, 12-4.2-5,
16-2, 16G-15, 16G-20, 18-5, 20-1.2, |
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| 24-1.1, 24-1.2-5, 24-1.6, 24-3.2, or 24-3.3
of the Criminal |
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| Code of 1961; Section 4, 5, 6, 8, or 17.02 of the Illinois
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| Credit Card and Debit Card Act; or Section 5.1 of the Wrongs to |
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| Children Act;
or (ii) violated Section 10-5 of the Nursing and |
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| Advanced Practice Nursing Act.
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| A UCIA criminal history record check need not be redone for |
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| health care
employees who were
have been continuously employed |
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| by a health care employer on or before
since
January 1, 2004, |
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| but nothing in this Section prohibits a health care employer
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| from initiating a criminal history check for these employees.
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| A health care employer is not required to retain an |
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| individual in a position
with duties involving direct care for |
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| clients, patients, or residents who has
been convicted of |
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| committing or attempting to commit one or more of
the offenses |
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| enumerated in this subsection.
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| (b) A health care employer shall not hire, employ, or |
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| retain any
individual in a position with duties involving |
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| direct care of clients,
patients, or residents if the health |
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| care employer becomes aware that the
individual has been |
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| convicted in another state of committing or attempting to
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| commit an offense that has the same or similar elements as an |
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| offense listed in
subsection (a) or (a-1), as verified by court |
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| records, records from a state
agency, or an FBI criminal |
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| history record check. This shall not be construed to
mean that |
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| a health care employer has an obligation to conduct a criminal
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| history records check in other states in which an employee has |
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| resided.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-224, eff. 7-18-03.)
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| (225 ILCS 46/65)
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| Sec. 65. Health Care Worker Task Force. A Health Care |
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| Worker Task Force
shall be appointed to study and make |
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| recommendations on statutory changes to
this Act.
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| (a) The Task Force shall monitor the status of the |
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| implementation of this
Act and monitor complaint |
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| investigations relating to this Act by the Department
on Aging, |
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| Department of Public Health, Department of Professional |
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| Regulation,
and the Department of Human Services to determine |
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| the criminal background, if
any, of health care workers who |
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| have had findings of abuse, theft, or
exploitation.
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| (b) The Task Force shall make recommendations concerning |
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| modifications to
the list of offenses enumerated in Section 25, |
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| including time limits on all or
some of the disqualifying |
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| offenses, and any other necessary or desirable
changes to the |
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| Act.
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| (c) The Task Force shall issue an interim report to the |
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| Governor and General
Assembly no later than September 1, 2004
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| January 1, 2004. The final report shall be issued no
later than |
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| September 30, 2005, and shall include specific statutory |
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| changes
recommended, if any.
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| (d) The Task Force shall be composed of the following |
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| members, who shall
serve without pay:
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| (1) a chairman knowledgeable about health care issues, |
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| who shall be
appointed by the Governor;
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| (2) the Director of Public Health or his or her |
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| designee;
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| (3) the Director of State Police or his or her |
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| designee;
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| (4)
(3.5) the Director of Public Aid or his or her |
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| designee;
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| (5)
(3.6) the Secretary of Human Services or his or her |
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| designee;
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| (6)
(3.7) the Director of Aging or his or her designee;
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| (7)
(4) 2 representatives of health care providers, who |
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| shall be appointed
by the Governor;
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| (8)
(5) 2 representatives of health care employees, who |
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| shall be appointed
by the Governor;
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| (9)
(5.5) a representative of a Community Care |
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| homemaker program, who shall
be appointed by the Governor;
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| (10)
(6) a representative of the general public who has |