HB4554 - Illinois: General Assembly, Physicians

MED PRAC-PHYS PROFILE-INFO REQ Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. In the Patients' Right to Know Law, requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to make physician profiles available to the public on or before September 1, 2008 (now, there is no implementation date for the requirement). Provides that the rules adopted by the Department under the Law shall include rules related to the submission of required information by physicians under the Law, and conditions initial, renewal, and restoration licensure upon the submission and updating of such required information. Effective immediately. House Amendment No. 1 Removes certain references to determinations made by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and provides that there is no rulemaking authority under the amendatory Act, but that the Governor may suggest rules by filing them with the General Assembly and requesting that the General Assembly authorize such rulemaking [...]

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