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HB4826 - 104th General Assembly
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulation. | ||||||
| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly: | ||||||
| 4 | Section 5. The Department of Professional Regulation Law | ||||||
| 5 | of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by | ||||||
| 6 | adding Section 2105-379 as follows: | ||||||
| 7 | (20 ILCS 2105/2105-379 new) | ||||||
| 8 | Sec. 2105-379. Continuing education; prohibited services. | ||||||
| 9 | (a) As used in this Section, "prohibited services, | ||||||
| 10 | treatments, practices, or procedures" means the services, | ||||||
| 11 | treatments, practices, or procedures that are expressly | ||||||
| 12 | prohibited by law or by rule in this State at the time a | ||||||
| 13 | continuing education activity is completed. | ||||||
| 14 | (b) A licensee shall not receive continuing education | ||||||
| 15 | credit toward the renewal of a professional license for any | ||||||
| 16 | continuing education course, program, seminar, instruction, | ||||||
| 17 | webinar, or other educational activity that promotes, | ||||||
| 18 | instructs, or provides guidance on the performance of | ||||||
| 19 | prohibited services, treatments, practices, or procedures. | ||||||
| 20 | (c) Approval by the Department of a continuing education | ||||||
| 21 | provider or continuing education course does not supersede the | ||||||
| 22 | provisions of this Section. | ||||||
| 23 | (d) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to require | ||||||
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| 1 | the Department to proactively review, pre-approve, evaluate, | ||||||
| 2 | monitor, or otherwise assess continuing education content | ||||||
| 3 | restrictions under this Section. | ||||||
| 4 | (e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit | ||||||
| 5 | a licensee from receiving continuing education credit toward | ||||||
| 6 | renewal of a professional license for any continuing education | ||||||
| 7 | course, program, seminar, instruction, webinar, or other | ||||||
| 8 | educational activity that instructs or provides guidance on | ||||||
| 9 | recognizing, identifying, reporting, or responding to criminal | ||||||
| 10 | conduct or victimization as it affects clients or third | ||||||
| 11 | parties, provided that such educational activity does not | ||||||
| 12 | itself promote, instruct, or provide guidance on the | ||||||
| 13 | performance of prohibited services, treatments, practices, or | ||||||
| 14 | procedures. | ||||||
| 15 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on | ||||||
| 16 | January 1, 2027. | ||||||