SB2843 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB093 18192 AMC 43887 b

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB2843

Introduced 2/6/2004, by Edward D. Maloney

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

225 ILCS 65/5-16 new
225 ILCS 65/20-40

Amends the Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act. Provides that the Department of Professional Regulation shall create the Illinois Center for Nursing. Provides a list of goals for the Center and requires the Center to work in conjunction with the Illinois Coalition for Nursing Resources in accomplishing its goals. Provides that moneys in the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund may be used for the establishment of the Center and provides for the appropriation of money from the Fund to the Department to be used within 2 fiscal years of the effective date for the Center. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT in relation to nursing.

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

Section 5. The Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act is amended by changing Section 20-40 and adding Section 5-16 as follows:

(225 ILCS 65/5-16 new)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2008)

Sec. 5-16. Illinois Center for Nursing. The Department shall create the Illinois Center for Nursing, the goals of which shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(1) To develop and implement a strategic statewide plan to address the nursing workforce needs in Illinois.

(2) To evaluate population demographics and available health indicator data to determine how the population needs relate to the demand for nursing services.

(3) To create a dynamic system for projecting nurse workforce supply and demand.

(4) To support the development of a nursing workforce to include the diversity, educational mix, geographic distribution, and numbers needed within the State.

(5) To develop strategies for ensuring adequate numbers of nurse faculty who are prepared to educate students to meet the needs of patients, families, and health care organizations.

(6) To monitor educational trends in nursing, including applications, enrollments, and graduate outcomes.

(7) To develop collaborative models between nursing education and practice to identify necessary competencies, educational strategies, and models of professional practice.

(8) To provide funding for the planning and implementation of demonstration projects of nursing educational models and professional practice models that will address the health care needs within the State of Illinois.

The Illinois Center for Nursing shall work in conjunction with the Illinois Coalition for Nursing Resources in accomplishing its goals.

(225 ILCS 65/20-40)

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

Sec. 20-40. Fund. There is hereby created within the State Treasury the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund. The monies in the Fund may be used by and at the direction of the Department for the administration and enforcement of this Act, including but not limited to:

(a) Distribution and publication of the Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act and the rules at the time of renewal to all persons licensed by the Department under this Act.

(b) Employment of secretarial, nursing, administrative, enforcement, and other staff for the administration of this Act.

(c) Conducting a survey, as prescribed by rule of the Department, once every 4 years during the license renewal period.

(d) Conducting of training seminars for licensees under this Act relating to the obligations, responsibilities, enforcement and other provisions of the Act and its rules.

(d-5) Establishment of the Illinois Center for Nursing as provided for in Section 5-16.

(e) Disposition of Fees:

(i) (Blank).

(ii) All of the fees and fines collected pursuant to this Act shall be deposited in the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund.

(iii) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1988, the moneys deposited in the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund shall be appropriated to the Department for expenses of the Department and the Board in the administration of this Act. All earnings received from investment of moneys in the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund shall be deposited in the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund and shall be used for the same purposes as fees deposited in the Fund.

(iv) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2001 and for each fiscal year thereafter, $750,000 of the moneys deposited in the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund each year shall be set aside and appropriated to the Illinois Department of Public Health for nursing scholarships awarded pursuant to the Nursing Education Scholarship Law. Representatives of the Department and the Nursing Education Scholarship Program Advisory Council shall review this requirement and the scholarship awards every 2 years.

(iv-5) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2004, $1,000,000 of the moneys deposited into the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund shall be appropriated to the Department to be used within 2 fiscal years of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly to establish the Illinois Center for Nursing as provided for in Section 5-16 and subsection (d-5) of this Section.

(v) Moneys in the Fund may be transferred to the Professions Indirect Cost Fund as authorized under Section 2105-300 of the Department of Professional Regulation Law (20 ILCS 2105/2105-300).

(Source: P.A. 91-239, 1-1-00; 92-46, eff. 7-1-01.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.