Rep. Avery Bourne

Filed: 3/9/2017

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 481

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 481 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Nursing Home Care Act is amended by
5changing Section 3-206 as follows:
 
6    (210 ILCS 45/3-206)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4153-206)
7    Sec. 3-206. The Department shall prescribe a curriculum for
8training nursing assistants, habilitation aides, and child
9care aides.
10    (a) No person, except a volunteer who receives no
11compensation from a facility and is not included for the
12purpose of meeting any staffing requirements set forth by the
13Department, shall act as a nursing assistant, habilitation
14aide, or child care aide in a facility, nor shall any person,
15under any other title, not licensed, certified, or registered
16to render medical care by the Department of Professional

 

 

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1Regulation, assist with the personal, medical, or nursing care
2of residents in a facility, unless such person meets the
3following requirements:
4        (1) Be at least 16 years of age, of temperate habits
5    and good moral character, honest, reliable and
6    trustworthy.
7        (2) Be able to speak and understand the English
8    language or a language understood by a substantial
9    percentage of the facility's residents.
10        (3) Provide evidence of employment or occupation, if
11    any, and residence for 2 years prior to his present
12    employment.
13        (4) Have completed at least 8 years of grade school or
14    provide proof of equivalent knowledge.
15        (5) Begin a current course of training for nursing
16    assistants, habilitation aides, or child care aides,
17    approved by the Department, within 45 days of initial
18    employment in the capacity of a nursing assistant,
19    habilitation aide, or child care aide at any facility. Such
20    courses of training shall be successfully completed within
21    120 days of initial employment in the capacity of nursing
22    assistant, habilitation aide, or child care aide at a
23    facility. Nursing assistants, habilitation aides, and
24    child care aides who are enrolled in approved courses in
25    community colleges or other educational institutions on a
26    term, semester or trimester basis, shall be exempt from the

 

 

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1    120 day completion time limit. The Department shall adopt
2    rules for such courses of training. These rules shall
3    include procedures for facilities to carry on an approved
4    course of training within the facility. The Department
5    shall allow an individual to satisfy the supervised
6    clinical experience requirement for placement on the
7    Health Care Worker Registry under 77 Ill. Adm. Code 300.663
8    through supervised clinical experience at an assisted
9    living establishment licensed under the Assisted Living
10    and Shared Housing Act. The Department shall adopt rules
11    requiring that the Health Care Worker Registry include
12    information identifying where an individual on the Health
13    Care Worker Registry received his or her clinical training.
14        The Department may accept comparable training in lieu
15    of the 120 hour course for student nurses, foreign nurses,
16    military personnel, or employes of the Department of Human
17    Services.
18        The facility shall develop and implement procedures,
19    which shall be approved by the Department, for an ongoing
20    review process, which shall take place within the facility,
21    for nursing assistants, habilitation aides, and child care
22    aides.
23        At the time of each regularly scheduled licensure
24    survey, or at the time of a complaint investigation, the
25    Department may require any nursing assistant, habilitation
26    aide, or child care aide to demonstrate, either through

 

 

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1    written examination or action, or both, sufficient
2    knowledge in all areas of required training. If such
3    knowledge is inadequate the Department shall require the
4    nursing assistant, habilitation aide, or child care aide to
5    complete inservice training and review in the facility
6    until the nursing assistant, habilitation aide, or child
7    care aide demonstrates to the Department, either through
8    written examination or action, or both, sufficient
9    knowledge in all areas of required training.
10        (6) Be familiar with and have general skills related to
11    resident care.
12    (a-0.5) An educational entity, other than a secondary
13school, conducting a nursing assistant, habilitation aide, or
14child care aide training program shall initiate a criminal
15history record check in accordance with the Health Care Worker
16Background Check Act prior to entry of an individual into the
17training program. A secondary school may initiate a criminal
18history record check in accordance with the Health Care Worker
19Background Check Act at any time during or after a training
20program.
21    (a-1) Nursing assistants, habilitation aides, or child
22care aides seeking to be included on the registry maintained
23under Section 3-206.01 on or after January 1, 1996 must
24authorize the Department of Public Health or its designee to
25request a criminal history record check in accordance with the
26Health Care Worker Background Check Act and submit all

 

 

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1necessary information. An individual may not newly be included
2on the registry unless a criminal history record check has been
3conducted with respect to the individual.
4    (b) Persons subject to this Section shall perform their
5duties under the supervision of a licensed nurse.
6    (c) It is unlawful for any facility to employ any person in
7the capacity of nursing assistant, habilitation aide, or child
8care aide, or under any other title, not licensed by the State
9of Illinois to assist in the personal, medical, or nursing care
10of residents in such facility unless such person has complied
11with this Section.
12    (d) Proof of compliance by each employee with the
13requirements set out in this Section shall be maintained for
14each such employee by each facility in the individual personnel
15folder of the employee. Proof of training shall be obtained
16only from the health care worker registry.
17    (e) Each facility shall obtain access to the health care
18worker registry's web application, maintain the employment and
19demographic information relating to each employee, and verify
20by the category and type of employment that each employee
21subject to this Section meets all the requirements of this
22Section.
23    (f) Any facility that is operated under Section 3-803 shall
24be exempt from the requirements of this Section.
25    (g) Each skilled nursing and intermediate care facility
26that admits persons who are diagnosed as having Alzheimer's

 

 

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1disease or related dementias shall require all nursing
2assistants, habilitation aides, or child care aides, who did
3not receive 12 hours of training in the care and treatment of
4such residents during the training required under paragraph (5)
5of subsection (a), to obtain 12 hours of in-house training in
6the care and treatment of such residents. If the facility does
7not provide the training in-house, the training shall be
8obtained from other facilities, community colleges or other
9educational institutions that have a recognized course for such
10training. The Department shall, by rule, establish a recognized
11course for such training. The Department's rules shall provide
12that such training may be conducted in-house at each facility
13subject to the requirements of this subsection, in which case
14such training shall be monitored by the Department.
15    The Department's rules shall also provide for
16circumstances and procedures whereby any person who has
17received training that meets the requirements of this
18subsection shall not be required to undergo additional training
19if he or she is transferred to or obtains employment at a
20different facility or a facility other than a long-term care
21facility but remains continuously employed for pay as a nursing
22assistant, habilitation aide, or child care aide. Individuals
23who have performed no nursing or nursing-related services for a
24period of 24 consecutive months shall be listed as "inactive"
25and as such do not meet the requirements of this Section.
26Licensed sheltered care facilities shall be exempt from the

 

 

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1requirements of this Section.
2(Source: P.A. 96-1372, eff. 7-29-10.)
 
3    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4becoming law.".