HB0477 - Illinois: Grants, Health Care, Internet, School

HEALTHCARE PRACTNR PROFILE ACT Creates the Health Care Practitioner Profile Act. Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to make available to the public a profile of each health care practitioner licensed under Illinois law. Requires the Department to make the profile available through an Internet web site and, if requested, in writing. Sets forth that information which must be contained within the profile. Provides that, prior to release to the public, a practitioner shall be provided with a copy of his or her individual profile, shall have 60 days to correct any factual inaccuracies that may appear in the profile, and may elect to omit certain information from the profile. Grants rulemaking authority to the Department. Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code to require the Department to make available to the public a profile of each funeral director licensed under the Act. House Amendment No. 1

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