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| AN ACT concerning regulation.
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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 Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and
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| Audiology Practice Act is amended by changing Section 8.1 as |
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| follows:
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| (225 ILCS 110/8.1)
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2008)
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| Sec. 8.1. Temporary license. On and after July 1, 2005, a |
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| person who has
met the requirements of items (a) through (e) of |
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| Section 8 and intends to
undertake supervised professional |
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| experience as a speech-language pathologist,
as required by |
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| subsection (f) of Section 8 and the rules adopted by the
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| Department, must first obtain a temporary license from the |
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| Department. A
temporary license may be issued by the Department |
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| only to an applicant pursuing
licensure as a speech-language |
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| pathologist in this State. A temporary license
shall be issued |
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| to an applicant upon receipt of the required fee as set forth
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| by rule and documentation on forms prescribed by the Department |
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| certifying that his or her professional experience will be |
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| supervised by a licensed speech-language pathologist. A |
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| temporary license shall be issued
for a period of 12 months and |
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| may be renewed only once for good cause shown. |
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| A person who has completed the course and clinical |
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| curriculum required to receive a master's degree in |
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| speech-language pathology, as minimally required under |
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| subsection (d) of Section 8 of this Act for a license to |
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| practice speech-language pathology, but who has not yet been |
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| conferred the master's degree, may make application to the |
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| Department for a temporary license under this Section and may |
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| begin his or her supervised professional experience as a |
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| speech-language pathologist without a temporary license for |