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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 332

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill  332  on  page  1,
 3    immediately below line 25, by inserting the following:

 4        "Section  10.  The Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters
 5    Act of 1984 is amended by changing Section 17 as follows:

 6        (225 ILCS 415/17) (from Ch. 111, par. 6217)
 7        (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2004)
 8        Sec. 17.  Fees;  returned  checks;  expiration  while  in
 9    military.
10        (a)  The  fees  for the administration and enforcement of
11    this  Act,   including   but   not   limited   to,   original
12    certification, renewal and restoration, shall be set by rule.
13        (b)  Beginning  July  1,  2003, all of the fees and fines
14    collected under this Act shall be deposited into the  General
15    Professions Dedicated Fund.
16        (c)  Any  person who delivers a check or other payment to
17    the Department that is returned to the Department  unpaid  by
18    the financial institution upon which it is drawn shall pay to
19    the Department, in addition to the amount already owed to the
20    Department,  a fine of $50. The fines imposed by this Section
21    are in addition to any other discipline provided  under  this
22    Act   prohibiting   unlicensed  practice  or  practice  on  a
 
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 1    nonrenewed license. The Department shall  notify  the  person
 2    that  payment  of  fees  and  fines  shall  be  paid  to  the
 3    Department  by  certified  check  or  money  order  within 30
 4    calendar days of the notification. If, after  the  expiration
 5    of  30 days from the date of the notification, the person has
 6    failed to submit the  necessary  remittance,  the  Department
 7    shall  automatically  terminate the license or certificate or
 8    deny the application, without hearing. If, after  termination
 9    or  denial,  the person seeks a license or certificate, he or
10    she shall apply to the Department for restoration or issuance
11    of the license or certificate and pay all fees and fines  due
12    to the Department. The Department may establish a fee for the
13    processing  of an application for restoration of a license or
14    certificate  to  pay  all   expenses   of   processing   this
15    application.  The Director may waive the fines due under this
16    Section in individual cases where the Director finds that the
17    fines would be unreasonable or unnecessarily burdensome.
18        However, any person whose license has  expired  while  he
19    has been engaged (l) in federal or state service active duty,
20    or  (2) in training or education under the supervision of the
21    United States preliminary  to  induction  into  the  military
22    service, may have his license renewed, reinstated or restored
23    without  paying  any  lapsed renewal and restoration fees, if
24    within 2 years after termination of such service, training or
25    education other than by dishonorable discharge, he  furnishes
26    the  Department  with  satisfactory proof that he has been so
27    engaged and that his service, training or education has  been
28    so terminated.
29    (Source: P.A. 92-146, eff. 1-1-02.)".