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90_SB1491sam002

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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1491
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 1491 by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN  ACT  to  amend  the  Medical Practice Act of 1987 by
 5    adding Section 9.7."; and
 6    by replacing everything after the enacting  clause  with  the
 7    following:
 8        "Section  5.  The Medical Practice Act of 1987 is amended
 9    by adding Section 9.7 and changing Section 19 as follows:
10        (225 ILCS 60/9.7 new)
11        Sec. 9.7.  Criminal background  check.    The  Department
12    shall  require an applicant for a license under Section 19 of
13    this  Act  to  undergo  a  criminal  background  check.   The
14    Department shall adopt rules to implement this Section.
15        (225 ILCS 60/19) (from Ch. 111, par. 4400-19)
16        Sec. 19.  Licensure without examination.  The  Department
17    may,  in  its discretion, issue a license without examination
18    to any person who is currently licensed to practice  medicine
19    in all of its branches, or to practice the treatment of human
20    ailments  without  the  use of drugs or operative surgery, in
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 1    any other state, territory, country  or  province,  upon  the
 2    following conditions:
 3             (A)  (Blank);
 4             (B)  That  the applicant is of good moral character.
 5        In determining moral character under  this  Section,  the
 6        Department   may  take  into  consideration  whether  the
 7        applicant has engaged  in  conduct  or  activities  which
 8        would  constitute  grounds for discipline under this Act.
 9        The Department may also request the applicant to  submit,
10        and   may   consider  as  evidence  of  moral  character,
11        endorsements from 2 or 3 individuals licensed under  this
12        Act;
13             (C)  That  the applicant is physically, mentally and
14        professionally  capable  of  practicing   medicine   with
15        reasonable  judgment,  skill  and safety.  In determining
16        physical, mental and  professional  capacity  under  this
17        Section  the  Medical Licensing Board may, upon a showing
18        of a possible incapacity, compel an applicant  to  submit
19        to  a  mental  or  physical examination, or both, and may
20        condition or restrict any license, subject  to  the  same
21        terms  and  conditions  as  are  provided for the Medical
22        Disciplinary Board under Section  22  of  this  Act.  The
23        Medical  Licensing  Board or the Department may order the
24        examining physician to present testimony concerning  this
25        mental  or  physical  examination  of  the applicant.  No
26        information shall be excluded by reason of any common law
27        or statutory privilege relating to communications between
28        the applicant and the examining physician.  Any condition
29        of  restricted  license  shall  provide  that  the  Chief
30        Medical Coordinator or Deputy Medical  Coordinator  shall
31        have  the  authority  to  review  the subject physician's
32        compliance  with   such   conditions   or   restrictions,
33        including,  where  appropriate, the physician's record of
34        treatment and counseling regarding the impairment, to the
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 1        extent  permitted  by  applicable  federal  statutes  and
 2        regulations safeguarding the confidentiality  of  medical
 3        records of patients.
 4             (D)  That   if   the  applicant  seeks  to  practice
 5        medicine in all of its branches:
 6                  (1)  if the applicant was licensed  in  another
 7             jurisdiction  prior  to  January  1,  1988, that the
 8             applicant has satisfied the educational requirements
 9             of paragraph (1) of subsection (A) or paragraph  (2)
10             of subsection (A) of Section 11 of this Act; or
11                  (2)  if  the  applicant was licensed in another
12             jurisdiction  after  December  31,  1987,  that  the
13             applicant has satisfied the educational requirements
14             of paragraph (A)(2) of Section 11 of this Act; and
15                  (3)  the requirements for a license to practice
16             medicine in all of its branches  in  the  particular
17             state,  territory,  country or province in which the
18             applicant is licensed are deemed by  the  Department
19             to   have   been  substantially  equivalent  to  the
20             requirements for a license to practice  medicine  in
21             all  of  its  branches in force in this State at the
22             date of the applicant's license;
23             (E)  That if the  applicant  seeks  to  treat  human
24        ailments  without  the use of drugs and without operative
25        surgery:
26                  (1)  the  applicant  is   a   graduate   of   a
27             chiropractic  school  or  college  approved  by  the
28             Department at the time of their graduation;
29                  (2)  the   requirements   for  the  applicant's
30             license to practice the treatment of human  ailments
31             without   the   use  of  drugs  are  deemed  by  the
32             Department to have been substantially equivalent  to
33             the  requirements  for a license to practice in this
34             State at the date of the applicant's license;
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 1             (F)  That the Department  may,  in  its  discretion,
 2        issue  a license, without examination, to any graduate of
 3        a medical or osteopathic college, reputable and  in  good
 4        standing  in  the  judgment  of  the  Department, who has
 5        passed an examination for admission to the United  States
 6        Public  Health  Service,  or  who  has  passed  any other
 7        examination deemed by the  Department  to  have  been  at
 8        least   equal   in   all   substantial  respects  to  the
 9        examination required for admission to  any  such  medical
10        corps;
11             (G)  That    applications   for   licenses   without
12        examination shall be filed  with  the  Department,  under
13        oath,  on forms prepared and furnished by the Department,
14        and shall set forth, and applicants therefor shall supply
15        such  information   respecting   the   life,   education,
16        professional  practice, and moral character of applicants
17        as the Department may require to be filed for its use;.
18             (H)  That  the  applicant   undergo   the   criminal
19        background  check  established  under Section 9.7 of this
20        Act.
21        In the exercise of its discretion under this Section, the
22    Department  is  empowered  to  consider  and  evaluate   each
23    applicant  on an individual basis.  It may take into account,
24    among other things, the extent to which there is  or  is  not
25    available   to   the  Department,  authentic  and  definitive
26    information concerning the quality of medical  education  and
27    clinical  training  which  the  applicant  has had.  Under no
28    circumstances shall a license be issued under the  provisions
29    of  this  Section  to any person who has previously taken and
30    failed the written examination conducted  by  the  Department
31    for  such  license.   In  determining  moral  character,  the
32    Department  may take into consideration whether the applicant
33    has engaged in conduct or activities which  would  constitute
34    grounds  for  discipline  under this Act.  The Department may
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 1    also request the applicant to submit,  and  may  consider  as
 2    evidence of moral character, evidence from 2 or 3 individuals
 3    licensed  under  this  Act.  Applicants have 3 years from the
 4    date of application to complete the application process.   If
 5    the  process  has  not  been  completed  within  3 years, the
 6    application shall be denied, the fees shall be forfeited, and
 7    the applicant must  reapply  and  meet  the  requirements  in
 8    effect at the time of reapplication.
 9    (Source: P.A. 89-702, eff. 7-1-97.)".

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