Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Changes the repeal date of the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act from January 1, 2007 to January 1, 2017. Effective immediately.
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Requires every nursing home and hospital to adopt and ensure implementation of a policy to identify, assess, and develop strategies to control the risk of injury to residents, patients, and nurses associated with the lifting, transferring, repositioning, or movement of a resident or patient. Sets forth certain items that must be included in the policy, including (i) an analysis of the risk of injury to residents, patients, and nurses posed by the handling needs of the resident or patient populations served by the nursing home or hospital and the physical environment in which resident or patient handling and movement occurs and (ii) education of nurses in the identification, assessment, and control of risk of injury to residents, patients, and nurses during resident or patient handling. Effective immediately.
Creates a Task Force on a Uniform Building Code for the purpose of examining and making recommendations pertaining to the adoption of a uniform building code for the State.
Amends the Podiatric Medical Practice Act of 1987. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Real Estate License Act of 2000. Makes changes to the definition of "broker" and defines "proctor". Provides that every applicant for a broker's license must provide satisfactory proof to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation of having been licensed and engaged in licensed real estate brokerage activities for at least 2 years out the 3 years immediately preceding the date of application. Provides that all licenses of sponsored licensees shall be issued to the sponsoring broker at the sponsoring broker's address of record and that the renewal for each sponsored licensee shall be mailed to that licensee's sponsoring broker's address of record not less than 60 days before the expiration date of the license of the sponsored licensee. Makes changes in provisions concerning continuing education for brokers and salespersons, the licensing of continuing education schools and approval of courses, and the licensing of continuing education instructors. Requires the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation to employ at least one full-time investigator for every 10,000 licensees under the Act for the investigation of complaints alleging violations of the Act and 2 full-time investigators for the investigation of unlicensed persons or entities engaged in activities for which licensure is required. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that municipal use and occupation taxes imposed on the sale and installation of carpet shall be imposed on the selling price of the carpet regardless of whether the carpet is installed by using tacks, staples, tacking strips, or glue.
Amends the Hospital Licensing Act and the Hospital Report Card Act. Provides that a nurse or unlicensed hospital worker may not be required to work overtime except in the case of an unforeseen emergent situation. Provides that a nurse or unlicensed worker may not be disciplined, discriminated against, dismissed, discharged, or retaliated against or made subject to any other adverse employment decision for refusing to work overtime. Provides that a nurse may not be required to work more than 12 consecutive hours in a 24-hour period. Provides that work schedules must be posted at least one month in advance and may not be changed after posting except by mutual agreement between nurses or unlicensed workers and the hospital. Provides that when a nurse or unlicensed worker works 12 consecutive hours, the nurse or unlicensed worker must be allowed at least 8 consecutive hours of off-duty time immediately following the completion of the shift. Authorizes a hospital employee to file a complaint with the Department of Public Health alleging a violation of these provisions, and authorizes the Director of Public Health to issue a reprimand or impose a monetary civil penalty if he or she determines that a violation has occurred. Provides that civil penalties shall be paid to the Department of Public Health and used by the Department for the purpose of funding scholarships awarded under the Nursing Education Scholarship Law. Provides that a hospital must post a summary of these provisions approved by the Director of Labor in a conspicuous and accessible place in or about the hospital premises wherever any person subject to these provisions is employed; provides that the Department of Labor must furnish copies of the summary to hospitals on request, without charge. Provides that violations of these overtime provisions must be reported to the Department of Public Health under the Hospital Report Card Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the requirements for the approval by the Board of Environmental Health Practitioners.
Amends the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act and the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that a registered nurse licensed under the Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act and qualified by training and experience in operating room nursing shall be present in the operating room and function as the circulating nurse during all invasive or operative procedures. Provides that such a circulating nurse is responsible for coordinating all nursing care, patient safety needs, and the needs of the surgical team in the operating room.
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning compensation for the taking of private property for public use.
