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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB0494
Introduced 2/1/2007, by Rep. John E. Bradley SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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110 ILCS 935/3.05 |
from Ch. 144, par. 1453.05 |
110 ILCS 935/10 |
from Ch. 144, par. 1460 |
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Amends the Family Practice Residency Act. Adds a person licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 with a specialty in Psychiatry to the definition of "primary care physician". Provides that any monetary penalties imposed after December 31, 1999 and before the effective date of the amendatory Act upon a scholarship recipient who has been found by the Department of Public Health to have failed to fulfill his or her obligation under the Act, but who has been practicing as a psychiatrist within a designated shortage area during that time, must be declared null and void by the Department, and any payments made to the Department by the scholarship recipient must be returned to that scholarship recipient within a reasonable amount of time, as determined by the Department. Effective immediately.
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HB0494 |
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LRB095 03426 RAS 23430 b |
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| WHEREAS, The General Assembly finds and recognizes that |
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| there is a shortage of psychiatrists in designated shortage |
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| areas within this State; therefore |
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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 Family Practice Residency Act is amended by |
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| changing Sections 3.05 and 10 as follows:
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| (110 ILCS 935/3.05) (from Ch. 144, par. 1453.05)
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| Sec. 3.05. "Primary care physician" means a person licensed |
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practice medicine in all of its branches under the Medical |
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| Practice Act
of 1987 with a specialty in Family Practice, |
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| Internal Medicine,
Obstetrics and Gynecology, or Pediatrics , |
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| or Psychiatry as defined by recognized standards
of |
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| professional medical practice.
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| (Source: P.A. 85-1209.)
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| (110 ILCS 935/10) (from Ch. 144, par. 1460)
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| Sec. 10. (a) Scholarship recipients who fail to fulfill the
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| obligation described in subsection (d) of Section 3.07 of this
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| Act shall pay to the Department a sum equal to 3 times the |
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| amount
of the annual scholarship grant for each year the
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