HB5598 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB093 17322 AMC 42988 b

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB5598

Introduced 02/06/04, by Michael J. Madigan

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

225 ILCS 85/8

from Ch. 111, par. 4128

Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning licensure without examination.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT in relation to the regulation of professions.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987 is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:

(225 ILCS 85/8) (from Ch. 111, par. 4128)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2008)

Sec. 8. Licensure without examination. The Department may, in its discretion, license as a pharmacist, without examination, on payment of the required fee, an applicant who is so licensed under the laws of another U.S. jurisdiction or another country, if the requirements for licensure in the other jurisdiction in which the applicant was licensed, were, at the date of his licensure deemed by the Board to be substantially equivalent to the requirements then in force in this State.

(Source: P.A. 85-796.)