Amends the Illinois Plumbing License Law. Preempts home rule with regard to the regulation of the registration of plumbing contractors. Effective immediately.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
Creates the First 2005 General Revisory Act. Combines multiple versions of Sections amended by more than one Public Act. Renumbers Sections of various Acts to eliminate duplication. Corrects obsolete cross-references and technical errors. Makes stylistic changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the results of a preliminary breath screening test may be used by the State (as well as by the defendant) as evidence in any administrative or court proceeding involving alleged driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or intoxicating compounds.
Creates the Medical Malpractice Act of 2005. Contains a short title provision only.
Mourns the death of Thomas Hutchinson of Godfrey, Illinois.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that financial institutions and officers and employees of the institution are not required to become licensed under the Code in order to offer a line of insurance that is excluded from the definition of insurance if the line of insurance is offered in relation to the financial institution's banking business. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act to extend the repeal of the Illinois Physical Therapy Act to January 1, 2016. Amends the Physical Therapy Act. Changes all references from the Physical Therapy Licensing and Disciplinary Committee and the Physical Therapy Examining Committee to the Physical Therapy Licensing and Disciplinary Board. Changes the definition of "physical therapy" to mean and include (A) examining, evaluating, and testing individuals who may have mechanical, physiological, or developmental impairments, functional limitations, disabilities, or other health and movement-related conditions, determining a treatment diagnosis for these disorders and rehabilitation prognosis and plan of therapeutic intervention, and assessing the on-going effects of the interventions, (B) alleviating impairments, functional limitations, or disabilities by designing, implementing, and modifying therapeutic interventions for the purposes of preventing, correcting, or alleviating a physical or mental impairment, functional limitation, or disability, (C) reducing the risk of injury, impairment, functional limitation, or disability, including the promotion and maintenance of fitness, health, and wellness, and (D) engaging in administration, consultation, education, and research. Provides that a majority of Board members then appointed constitutes a quorum and that a majority vote of the quorum is required for a Board decision. Changes references to a physical therapy assistant program to a physical therapist assistant program. Provides that a person must have graduated from and attained an associate's degree from an approved physical therapist assistant program in order to be qualified to receive a license as a physical therapist assistant (now, a person is required to have graduated from a 2-year college level physical therapy assistant program). Provides that following notification of eligibility for examination, an applicant who fails to take the examination for a license under the Act within 60 days of the notification shall forfeit his or her fee and right to practice as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant until such time as the applicant has passed the appropriate examination (now, an applicant who fails to take the next-scheduled examination forfeits his fee and right to practice). Effective immediately.
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that a chronic truant may be subject to a petition as a truant minor in need of supervision, provided that prior to the filing of the petition, a comprehensive community based youth service agency shall have certified that the minor has been referred to that agency for truancy intervention services, and the regional superintendent or Office of Chronic Truant Adjudication shall have certified that truancy intervention services have not resulted in the cessation of chronic truancy after 180 days of the referral for truancy intervention services. Defines "truancy intervention services" as services provided by a comprehensive community based youth service agency that are designed to assist the minor's return to an educational program, and includes assessments, counseling, mental health services, shelter, tutoring, and educational advocacy.
