99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB0748

 

Introduced 2/3/2015, by Sen. Jason A. Barickman

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
225 ILCS 25/4  from Ch. 111, par. 2304
225 ILCS 25/54.2

    Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. Changes the term "dental emergency responder" to "dental responder". Changes the definition of the term to mean a dentist or dental hygienist who is appropriately certified in disaster preparedness, immunizations, and dental humanitarian medical response consistent with the Society of Disaster Medicine and Public Health and training certified by the National Incident Management System or the National Disaster Life Support Foundation (rather than a dentist or dental hygienist who is appropriately certified in emergency medical response, as defined by the Department of Public Health). Makes corresponding changes in the provisions concerning dental emergency responders.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Dental Practice Act is amended by
5changing Sections 4 and 54.2 as follows:
 
6    (225 ILCS 25/4)   (from Ch. 111, par. 2304)
7    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016)
8    Sec. 4. Definitions. As used in this Act:
9    "Address of record" means the designated address recorded
10by the Department in the applicant's or licensee's application
11file or license file as maintained by the Department's
12licensure maintenance unit. It is the duty of the applicant or
13licensee to inform the Department of any change of address and
14those changes must be made either through the Department's
15website or by contacting the Department.
16    "Department" means the Department of Financial and
17Professional Regulation.
18    "Secretary" means the Secretary of Financial and
19Professional Regulation.
20    "Board" means the Board of Dentistry.
21    "Dentist" means a person who has received a general license
22pursuant to paragraph (a) of Section 11 of this Act and who may
23perform any intraoral and extraoral procedure required in the

 

 

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1practice of dentistry and to whom is reserved the
2responsibilities specified in Section 17.
3    "Dental hygienist" means a person who holds a license under
4this Act to perform dental services as authorized by Section
518.
6    "Dental assistant" means an appropriately trained person
7who, under the supervision of a dentist, provides dental
8services as authorized by Section 17.
9    "Dental laboratory" means a person, firm or corporation
10which:
11        (i) engages in making, providing, repairing or
12    altering dental prosthetic appliances and other artificial
13    materials and devices which are returned to a dentist for
14    insertion into the human oral cavity or which come in
15    contact with its adjacent structures and tissues; and
16        (ii) utilizes or employs a dental technician to provide
17    such services; and
18        (iii) performs such functions only for a dentist or
19    dentists.
20    "Supervision" means supervision of a dental hygienist or a
21dental assistant requiring that a dentist authorize the
22procedure, remain in the dental facility while the procedure is
23performed, and approve the work performed by the dental
24hygienist or dental assistant before dismissal of the patient,
25but does not mean that the dentist must be present at all times
26in the treatment room.

 

 

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1    "General supervision" means supervision of a dental
2hygienist requiring that the patient be a patient of record,
3that the dentist examine the patient in accordance with Section
418 prior to treatment by the dental hygienist, and that the
5dentist authorize the procedures which are being carried out by
6a notation in the patient's record, but not requiring that a
7dentist be present when the authorized procedures are being
8performed. The issuance of a prescription to a dental
9laboratory by a dentist does not constitute general
10supervision.
11    "Public member" means a person who is not a health
12professional. For purposes of board membership, any person with
13a significant financial interest in a health service or
14profession is not a public member.
15    "Dentistry" means the healing art which is concerned with
16the examination, diagnosis, treatment planning and care of
17conditions within the human oral cavity and its adjacent
18tissues and structures, as further specified in Section 17.
19    "Branches of dentistry" means the various specialties of
20dentistry which, for purposes of this Act, shall be limited to
21the following: endodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery,
22orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, pediatric dentistry,
23periodontics, prosthodontics, and oral and maxillofacial
24radiology.
25    "Specialist" means a dentist who has received a specialty
26license pursuant to Section 11(b).

 

 

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1    "Dental technician" means a person who owns, operates or is
2employed by a dental laboratory and engages in making,
3providing, repairing or altering dental prosthetic appliances
4and other artificial materials and devices which are returned
5to a dentist for insertion into the human oral cavity or which
6come in contact with its adjacent structures and tissues.
7    "Impaired dentist" or "impaired dental hygienist" means a
8dentist or dental hygienist who is unable to practice with
9reasonable skill and safety because of a physical or mental
10disability as evidenced by a written determination or written
11consent based on clinical evidence, including deterioration
12through the aging process, loss of motor skills, abuse of drugs
13or alcohol, or a psychiatric disorder, of sufficient degree to
14diminish the person's ability to deliver competent patient
15care.
16    "Nurse" means a registered professional nurse, a certified
17registered nurse anesthetist licensed as an advanced practice
18nurse, or a licensed practical nurse licensed under the Nurse
19Practice Act.
20    "Patient of record" means a patient for whom the patient's
21most recent dentist has obtained a relevant medical and dental
22history and on whom the dentist has performed an examination
23and evaluated the condition to be treated.
24    "Dental emergency responder" means a dentist or dental
25hygienist who is appropriately certified in disaster
26preparedness, immunizations, and dental humanitarian emergency

 

 

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1medical response consistent with the Society of Disaster
2Medicine and Public Health and training certified by the
3National Incident Management System or the National Disaster
4Life Support Foundation , as defined by the Department of Public
5Health.
6    "Mobile dental van or portable dental unit" means any
7self-contained or portable dental unit in which dentistry is
8practiced that can be moved, towed, or transported from one
9location to another in order to establish a location where
10dental services can be provided.
11(Source: P.A. 97-526, eff. 1-1-12; 97-1013, eff. 8-17-12.)
 
12    (225 ILCS 25/54.2)
13    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016)
14    Sec. 54.2. Dental emergency responders. A dentist or dental
15hygienist who is a dental emergency responder is deemed to be
16acting within the bounds of his or her license when providing
17disaster, immunizations, mobile, and humanitarian care during
18a declared local, State, or national emergency.
19(Source: P.A. 94-409, eff. 12-31-05.)