Creates the Registered Neurodiagnostic Technologist Title Protection Act. Provides for registration of neurodiagnostic technologist by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Prohibits a person from holding himself or herself out as a registered neurodiagnostic technologist without being registered by the Department. Establishes qualifications for registration as a neurodiagnostic technologist. Establishes the powers and duties of the Department, including prescribing fees for initial application and renewal of the registration, setting expiration and renewal period of the registration, defining the criteria for registration, investigating alleged violations of the Act, conducting hearings on disciplinary and other matters. Provides for grounds for disciplinary action. Provides for civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Creates provisions concerning formal hearings, including record of proceedings, appointment of hearing officers, subpoenas and depositions, and rehearings. Provides for judicial review of all final administrative decisions of the Department. Preempts home rule. Effective January 1, 2019.
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Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Provides that in the year following each federal decennial census, the General Assembly shall redraw the boundaries of the subcircuits of the Circuit of Cook County to reflect the results of the census.
Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides that a borrowing employer that has entered into an agreement with a loaning employer may not avail itself of the exclusive remedy protection under the Act. Provides that any agreement between a loaning employer and a borrowing employer by which the loaning employer is entitled to receive certain reimbursements relating to fees and costs in hearings before the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission is prohibited, is against public policy, and shall be wholly void.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Creates the Home Birth Maternity Care Crisis Study Committee to provide the General Assembly a consumer-focused, evidence-based solution to the Illinois Home Birth Maternity Care Crisis.
Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Extends the repeal of the Medical Practice Act of 1987 from December 31, 2017 to December 31, 2027. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Provides that if an individual is dismissed by a school district for committing a physical or sexual act on a student, the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board shall immediately suspend, pending revocation, any license issued to that individual under the Educator Licensure Article of the Code. With regard to employee dismissal proceedings, provides that in the case of charges involving physical or sexual contact with a student or a person under the age of 18, the hearing officer shall make alternative hearing procedures to protect a witness who is a student or who is under the age of 18 from being intimidated or traumatized. Amends the Employment Record Disclosure Act. Provides that a current or former employer and any authorized employee or agent acting on its behalf who, whether upon inquiry or on its own initiative, provides information to a school district created under the School Code orally or in writing that it believes in good faith to be true or based upon an accurate record about a current or former employee's job performance, record of misconduct, disciplinary history, or criminal history shall be immune from any cause of action or civil liability related to or stemming from that communication. Amends the Personnel Record Review Act to provide that certain disclosure requirements under the Act do not apply to a school district responding to an inquiry from a prospective employer or to activities or associations with individuals or groups involved in the physical, sexual, or other exploitation of minors. Makes conforming and other changes.
Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning expenses of conducting a primary election.
Amends the University of Illinois Trustees Act. Provides that in order to determine residency status of a potential or current student trustee, the student must provide evidence of the student's Illinois domicile for at least the previous 6 months, and either (i) evidence of the student's current, valid Illinois driver's license or Illinois Identification Card or (ii) evidence of the student's valid Illinois voter registration (instead of having evidence of the student's Illinois domicile, Illinois driver's license, and Illinois voter registration positively demonstrate residency). Effective January 1, 2018.
Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Provides for the licensure of naturopathic physicians. Makes conforming changes in various other Acts. Effective immediately.