Public Act 0022 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB0182 Enrolled LRB095 03971 NHT 24004 b

Public Act 095-0022

AN ACT concerning education.

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

Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Training Act.

Section 5. Creation of program. The University of Illinois at Chicago and Southern Illinois University shall expand their focuses on enrolling, training, and graduating forensic mental health professionals by each creating a forensic psychiatry fellowship training program at their Colleges of Medicine.

Section 10. Powers and duties under program. Under the forensic psychiatry fellowship training program created under Section 5 of this Act, the University of Illinois at Chicago and Southern Illinois University shall each have all of the following powers and duties:

(1) The university's undergraduate and graduate programs may increase their service and training commitments in order to provide mental health care to chronically mentally ill populations in this State.

(2) The university shall coordinate service, education, and research in mental health and may work with communities, State agencies, other colleges and universities, private foundations, health care providers, and other interested organizations on innovative strategies to respond to the challenges of providing greater physician presence in the field of forensic psychiatry. However, the majority of the clinical rotations of the fellows must be served in publicly supported programs in this State.

(3) The university may establish such clinical and educational centers and may cooperate with other universities and associations as may be necessary to carry out the intent of this Act according to the following priorities:

(A) a preference for programs that are designed to enroll, educate, and facilitate the graduation of mental health professionals trained in forensic psychiatry and other forensic mental health sub-specialities; and

(B) a preference for public sector programs that involve networking with other agencies, organizations, and institutions that have similar objectives.

Section 15. Program curriculum. The curriculum for the forensic psychiatry fellowship training program created under Section 5 of this Act shall be developed in accordance with criteria established by the Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

Section 20. Funding. The implementation of this Act is subject to appropriation. In a given fiscal year, 75% of the total amount appropriated for the purposes of this Act must be designated for the University of Illinois at Chicago and 25% of the total amount appropriated for the purposes of this Act must be designated for Southern Illinois University. From the appropriation for the purposes of this Act, the University of Illinois at Chicago and Southern Illinois University shall negotiate, with agencies providing supervision for forensic psychiatric fellows, the reimbursement of the marginal costs associated with that supervision, unless the University of Illinois at Chicago or Southern Illinois University is providing the supervision. Agencies providing supervision to more than one forensic psychiatric fellow may aggregate these marginal costs.

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

Effective Date: 8/3/2007