Full Text of HB1367 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning health.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing | 5 | | Code is amended by changing Section 10-35 as follows: | 6 | | (225 ILCS 41/10-35) | 7 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028) | 8 | | Sec. 10-35. Renewal; reinstatement; restoration. The
| 9 | | expiration date and renewal period for each license issued | 10 | | under this Article
shall be set by rule. The holder of a | 11 | | license as a licensed funeral director
and embalmer or funeral | 12 | | director and embalmer intern may renew
the license
during the | 13 | | month preceding the expiration date of the license by paying | 14 | | the
required fee. A licensed funeral director and embalmer or | 15 | | licensed funeral
director and embalmer trainee whose license | 16 | | has expired may have the license
reinstated within 5 years | 17 | | from the date of expiration upon payment of the
required | 18 | | reinstatement fee and fulfilling the requirements of the | 19 | | Department's
rules. The reinstatement of the license is | 20 | | effective as of the date of the
reissuance of the license. | 21 | | Any licensed funeral director and embalmer whose license | 22 | | has been expired
for more than 5 years may have the license | 23 | | restored only by fulfilling the
requirements set forth in the |
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| 1 | | Department's rules and by paying the required
restoration fee. | 2 | | However, any licensed funeral director and embalmer or
| 3 | | licensed funeral director and embalmer intern whose license | 4 | | has
expired while
he or she has been engaged (1) in federal | 5 | | service on active duty with the United States Army,
Navy, | 6 | | Marine Corps, Air Force,
or Coast Guard, or the State Militia | 7 | | called into the service or training of
the United States of | 8 | | America or (2) in training or education under the
supervision | 9 | | of the United States preliminary to induction into the | 10 | | military
service, may have his or her license restored without | 11 | | paying
any lapsed renewal fees or
restoration fee or without | 12 | | passing any examination if, within 2 years after
termination | 13 | | of the service, training or education other than by | 14 | | dishonorable
discharge, he or she furnishes the Department | 15 | | with an
affidavit to the
effect that he or she has been so | 16 | | engaged and that his or her service, training
or education has | 17 | | been so terminated. | 18 | | No license of a funeral director and embalmer intern shall | 19 | | be
renewed more
than twice. | 20 | | In addition to any other requirement for renewal of a | 21 | | license or
reinstatement or restoration of an expired license, | 22 | | as a condition for the renewal,
reinstatement, or restoration | 23 | | of a license as a licensed funeral director and embalmer, each
| 24 | | licensee shall provide evidence to the Department of | 25 | | completion of at least 24
hours of continuing education during | 26 | | the 24 months preceding the expiration
date of the license, or |
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| 1 | | in the case of reinstatement or restoration, within the 24 | 2 | | months
preceding the application for reinstatement or | 3 | | restoration. The continuing education sponsors
shall be | 4 | | approved by the Board. In addition, any qualified continuing
| 5 | | education course for funeral directors and embalmers offered | 6 | | by a college,
university, the Illinois Funeral Directors | 7 | | Association, Funeral Directors
Services Association of Greater | 8 | | Chicago, Cook County Association of
Funeral Home Owners, Inc., | 9 | | Illinois Selected Morticians
Associations, Inc., Illinois | 10 | | Cemetery and Funeral Home Association,
National Funeral | 11 | | Directors Association,
Selected Independent Funeral Homes, | 12 | | National Funeral
Directors and Morticians Association, Inc., | 13 | | International Order of the
Golden Rule, or an Illinois school | 14 | | of mortuary
science shall be accepted toward satisfaction of | 15 | | the continuing
education requirements. | 16 | | The Department shall establish by rule a means for | 17 | | verification of
completion of the continuing education | 18 | | required by this Section. This
verification may be | 19 | | accomplished through audits of records maintained by
| 20 | | licensees, by requiring the filing of continued education | 21 | | certificates
with the Department or a qualified organization | 22 | | selected by the Department
to maintain the records, or by | 23 | | other means established by the Department. | 24 | | Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, a person | 25 | | who is licensed as a funeral director and embalmer under this | 26 | | Code
and who has engaged in the practice of funeral directing |
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| 1 | | and embalming for
at least 40
years shall be exempt from the | 2 | | continuing education requirements of this
Section. Licensees | 3 | | who have not engaged in the practice of funeral directing and | 4 | | embalming for at least 40 years by January 1, 2016 shall not | 5 | | receive this exemption after that date. In addition,
the | 6 | | Department shall establish by rule an exemption or exception, | 7 | | for a limited period of time, for
funeral directors and | 8 | | embalmers who, by reason of advanced age, health or
other | 9 | | extreme condition, should reasonably be excused from the | 10 | | continuing
education requirement upon the approval of the | 11 | | Secretary. Those persons, identified above, who cannot attend
| 12 | | on-site classes, shall have the opportunity to comply by | 13 | | completing home
study courses designed for them by sponsors. | 14 | | (Source: P.A. 96-1463, eff. 1-1-11; 97-1130, eff. 8-28-12 .)
| 15 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 16 | | becoming law.
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