William R. Haine
Filed: 2/18/2004
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2271 




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2271 by replacing 
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everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
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    "Section 5. The Illinois Physical Therapy Act is amended  by 
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changing Section 31 as follows:
 



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    (225 ILCS 90/31)  (from Ch. 111, par. 4281)



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    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2006)

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    Sec. 31. Violations; use of words, abbreviations, figures, 
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or letters indicating licensure. 

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    (a)  Any person who is found to have violated any
provision 
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of this Act is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for the first

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offense and a Class 4 felony for the second and any subsequent 
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offense.

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    (b) Any person representing himself
as a physical therapist 
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or that the services he renders are physical therapy
services, 
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or uses any words, such as physical therapy, physical 
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therapist,
physiotherapy or physiotherapist, abbreviations, 
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figures or letters with
the intention of indicating practice as 
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a licensed physical therapist, when
he does not possess a 
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currently valid license as defined herein, commits
a Class A 
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misdemeanor, for a first offense, and a Class 4 felony for a 
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second
or subsequent offense.

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    (c) Any person representing himself as a physical therapist 
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assistant
or that the services he renders are physical therapy 
 


 






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services, or uses any
words such as physical therapy or 
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physical therapist assistant, or uses
abbreviations, figures 
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or letters with the intention of indicating practice
as a 
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physical therapist assistant, when he does not possess a 
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currently
valid license as defined herein, commits a Class A 
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misdemeanor for a first
offense, and a Class 4 felony for a 
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second or subsequent offense.

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(Source: P.A. 85-342; 86-1396.)".