Nurses Legislation - Illinois

VETERANS-TECH Creates the Veterans Assistance Act. Contains only a short title provision. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 20 ILCS 2805/8 new20 ILCS 2805/9 new35 ILCS 200/15-16535 ILCS 200/15-167 new Deletes everything [...]

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POSTPARTUM MOOD DISORDERS PREV Creates the Postpartum Mood Disorders Prevention Act. Sets out the findings of the General Assembly and the purposes of the Act. Provides that the Director of Public Health, in conjunction with the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and the Board of Nursing, shall work with physicians, healthcare facilities, nurses, and licensed health care workers in the State to develop policies and procedures related to the prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of postpartum mood disorders in women. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Creates the Perinatal Mental Health Disorders Prevention and Treatment Act. Sets out the findings of the General Assembly and the purposes of the Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services, in conjunction with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Department of Public Health, and the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation [...]

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STATE AGENCIES-NURSE OVERTIME Amends the Department of Children and Family Services Powers Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act, the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the Department of Veterans Affairs Act, the Illinois Public Aid Code, and the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that no nurse who is paid an hourly wage and who has direct responsibility to oversee or carry out nursing care or related duties may be required to work mandated overtime except in the case of an unforeseen emergent circumstance when such overtime is required only as a last resort, and limits the time of such overtime. Provides that when a nurse is mandated to work up to 12 consecutive hours, the nurse must be allowed at least 8 consecutive hours of off-duty time. Prohibits retaliation because a nurse refuses to work mandated overtime as prohibited under these [...]

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NURSING & APN PRAC-EXTEND SNST Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act to change the repeal date of the Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act from January 1, 2008 to January 1, 2018. Effective immediately. House Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 20 ILCS 1705/56from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-5620 ILCS 2310/2310-140was 20 ILCS 2310/55.37a20 ILCS 2310/2310-210was 20 ILCS 2310/55.62a

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DHS-CILA-NURSING SERVICES Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall require that any agency operating a community-integrated living arrangement must provide adequate nursing services to all recipients. Requires the Department to establish graduated standards of basic nursing services that correspond to recipients' ranges of Health Care Levels as reflected in the Health Risk Screening Tool; also requires the Department to establish standards for staffing ratios of Registered Nurses to Direct Support Personnel and Registered Nurses to Licensed Practical Nurses in accordance with a recipient's Health Care Level. Requires the Department to adjust its wage rates for Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses in community-integrated living arrangements. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Provides that the requirement to provide nursing services to residents [...]

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HOUSING-NEW NURSES Amends the Illinois Housing Development Act. Authorizes the Illinois Housing Development Authority to develop and implement a program of financial assistance to recently hired Illinois nurses and home-care workers purchasing their first primary residence. Limits the program to nurses and home-care workers employed in Cook County. Limits eligibility to nurses and home-care workers with no more than 2 years of employment who commit to continue working, for at least 3 years after their closing date, in Cook County. Effective immediately.  State Mandates Fiscal Note, House Amendment No. 1 (Dept. of Commerce & Economic Opportunity) This legislation does not create a State mandate under the State Mandates Act.  Home Rule Note, House Amendment [...]

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MEDICAID-PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that a "service provider" may be another entity besides a person or corporation. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, by rule, shall apply a comparable, prospective cost-reimbursement methodology for service providers to provide child and adult psychiatric services on an outpatient basis with the stipulation that the service provider meet certain criteria. Provides for reimbursement of advanced practice nurses providing such services at 100% of the established physician rate. Effective January 1, 2008. House Amendment No. 1 Deletes a requirement that a provider of child and adult psychiatric services be tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Deletes provisions concerning advanced practice nurses. House Amendment No. 2 Provides that a provider of child and adult psychiatric services must be certified by the Department [...]

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STUDENTS WITH DIABETES ACT Creates the Care of Students with Diabetes Act. Requires a diabetes medical management plan to be submitted for any student with diabetes who seeks assistance with diabetes care in the school setting (whether a public or a private school) by the student's parent or guardian. Provides that a school nurse and a volunteer aide shall provide diabetes care for a student only after a student's parent or guardian requests assistance and signs and submits a diabetes medical management plan to the school. Provides for designated diabetes care aides and their training. Sets forth what a student with diabetes must be permitted to do. Requires a school to provide an information sheet to certain school employees concerning a student with diabetes. Provides that a school district may not restrict the assignment of a student with diabetes to a particular school on the basis that the school does not have a full-time school nurse or the required designated diabetes [...]

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REGULATION-TECH Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the State Board of Pharmacy. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 225 ILCS 85/10Adds reference to: 225 ILCS 65/65-5was 225 ILCS 65/15-10 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Provides for licensure as certified registered nurse anesthetists of registered professional nurses and advanced practice nurses who do not have [...]

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NURSE PRAC-PRESCRIPTIVE AUTH Amends the Nurse Practice Act, the Pharmacy Practice Act, and the Illinois Controlled Substances Act to allow for the delegation of prescriptive authority to an advanced practice nurse by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches or a licensed podiatrist for any Schedule III through V controlled substances (now, Schedule III, III-N, IV, or V controlled substances). In the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, sets forth guidelines for the prescriptive authority delegated to advanced practice nurses as it relates to certain controlled substances, including Schedule II controlled substances. House Amendment No. 1 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 by law, enact the suggested rules into law, or take other appropriate action in the General [...]

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