Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the members of the State Board of Education.
Amends the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons Prescription Drug Discount Program Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Abused and Neglected Long Term Care Facility Residents Reporting Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act. Makes a technical change in the Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Health Care Purchasing Group Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act. Adds Schedule II controlled substances to the list of controlled substances that an advanced practice nurse must obtain a mid-level practitioner controlled substance license for in order to prescribe. Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987. Exempts the delegation of limited prescriptive authority regarding Schedule II controlled substances by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches to a physician assistant from the Act. Amends the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987 to allow physicians assistants with delegated prescriptive authority to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances. Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Adds a physician assistant who issues a prescription for a Schedule II controlled substance to the definition of "prescriber". Adds Schedule II controlled substances to the list of controlled substances that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation must register licensed physician assistants and licensed advanced practice nurses to prescribe and dispense. Provides that when a person meeting certain requirements pleads guilty to or is found guilty of possession of a controlled or counterfeit substance and is sentenced to probation, the court may require that person to refrain from having in his or her body the presence of certain illicit drugs, unless prescribed by a physician or an advanced practice nurse or physician assistant meeting certain requirements (now, only excepts those drugs prescribed by a physician). Effective immediately.
Amends the Attorneys Lien Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the creation of liens.
