Amends the Public Community College Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Illinois Community College Board.
Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that provisions concerning the employer's contribution for salary increases in excess of 6% do not apply to payments or stipends the teacher may receive for National Board certification. Effective immediately.
Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Department of Public Health Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the powers of the Department.
Amends the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Extends the date by which the Joint Task Force on Rural Health must report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006 and changes the name of the task force to the Joint Task Force on Rural Health and Medically Underserved Areas.
Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Allows a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches to enter into a supervising physician agreement with no more than 4, rather than 2, physician assistants at one time. Amends the Physician Assistant Practice Act. Provides that no more than 4, rather than 2, physician assistants shall be supervised by a supervising physician at one time and that an alternate supervising physician may supervise more than 4, rather than 2, physician assistants. Allows a physician assistant who is licensed under the Act, licensed or certified by another regulatory jurisdiction in the United States, or credentialed as a physician assistant by a federal employer to respond to a need for medical care created by a natural disaster, accident, or other emergency and to render the care that he or she is able to provide without supervision or with supervision, as it is available. Exempts a physician who supervises a physician assistant who is providing medical care in response to a natural disaster, accident, or other emergency from the requirements of the Act as they relate to supervising physicians. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Corporal Ryan James Buckley of Oak Grove, Kentucky, formerly of Hillsboro.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the transportation of pupils.
Amends the Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention Act. Increases the membership of the pilot project task force from 6 to 10, adding one representative of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; one representative of the Illinois Federation of Public Employees; and 2 representatives of the Department of Human Services, one representing the Division of Mental Health and the other representing the Division of Developmental Disabilities. Effective immediately.
