Rep. JoAnn D. Osmond

Filed: 3/15/2005

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3033

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3033 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems
5 Act is amended by changing Section 3.50 as follows:
 
6     (210 ILCS 50/3.50)
7     Sec. 3.50. Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Licensure.
8     (a) "Emergency Medical Technician-Basic" or "EMT-B" means
9 a person who has successfully completed a course of instruction
10 in basic life support as prescribed by the Department, is
11 currently licensed by the Department in accordance with
12 standards prescribed by this Act and rules adopted by the
13 Department pursuant to this Act, and practices within an EMS
14 System.
15     (b) "Emergency Medical Technician-Intermediate" or "EMT-I"
16 means a person who has successfully completed a course of
17 instruction in intermediate life support as prescribed by the
18 Department, is currently licensed by the Department in
19 accordance with standards prescribed by this Act and rules
20 adopted by the Department pursuant to this Act, and practices
21 within an Intermediate or Advanced Life Support EMS System.
22     (c) "Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic" or "EMT-P"
23 means a person who has successfully completed a course of
24 instruction in advanced life support care as prescribed by the

 

 

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1 Department, is licensed by the Department in accordance with
2 standards prescribed by this Act and rules adopted by the
3 Department pursuant to this Act, and practices within an
4 Advanced Life Support EMS System.
5     (d) The Department shall have the authority and
6 responsibility to:
7         (1) Prescribe education and training requirements,
8     which includes training in the use of epinephrine, for all
9     levels of EMT, based on the respective national curricula
10     of the United States Department of Transportation and any
11     modifications to such curricula specified by the
12     Department through rules adopted pursuant to this Act;
13         (2) Prescribe licensure testing requirements for all
14     levels of EMT, which shall include a requirement that all
15     phases of instruction, training, and field experience be
16     completed before taking the EMT licensure examination.
17     Candidates may elect to take the National Registry of
18     Emergency Medical Technicians examination in lieu of the
19     Department's examination, but are responsible for making
20     their own arrangements for taking the National Registry
21     examination;
22         (3) License individuals as an EMT-B, EMT-I, or EMT-P
23     who have met the Department's education, training and
24     testing requirements;
25         (4) Prescribe annual continuing education and
26     relicensure requirements for all levels of EMT;
27         (5) Relicense individuals as an EMT-B, EMT-I, or EMT-P
28     every 4 years, based on their compliance with continuing
29     education and relicensure requirements;
30         (6) Grant inactive status to any EMT who qualifies,
31     based on standards and procedures established by the
32     Department in rules adopted pursuant to this Act;
33         (7) Charge each candidate for EMT a fee to be submitted
34     with an application for a licensure examination;

 

 

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1         (8) Suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew the license of
2     an EMT, after an opportunity for a hearing, when findings
3     show one or more of the following:
4             (A) The EMT has not met continuing education or
5         relicensure requirements as prescribed by the
6         Department;
7             (B) The EMT has failed to maintain proficiency in
8         the level of skills for which he or she is licensed;
9             (C) The EMT, during the provision of medical
10         services, engaged in dishonorable, unethical or
11         unprofessional conduct of a character likely to
12         deceive, defraud or harm the public;
13             (D) The EMT has failed to maintain or has violated
14         standards of performance and conduct as prescribed by
15         the Department in rules adopted pursuant to this Act or
16         his or her EMS System's Program Plan;
17             (E) The EMT is physically impaired to the extent
18         that he or she cannot physically perform the skills and
19         functions for which he or she is licensed, as verified
20         by a physician, unless the person is on inactive status
21         pursuant to Department regulations;
22             (F) The EMT is mentally impaired to the extent that
23         he or she cannot exercise the appropriate judgment,
24         skill and safety for performing the functions for which
25         he or she is licensed, as verified by a physician,
26         unless the person is on inactive status pursuant to
27         Department regulations; or
28             (G) The EMT has violated this Act or any rule
29         adopted by the Department pursuant to this Act.
30     The education requirements prescribed by the Department
31 under this subsection must allow for the suspension of those
32 requirements in the case of a member of the armed services or
33 reserve forces of the United States or a member of the Illinois
34 National Guard who is on active duty pursuant to an executive

 

 

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1 order of the President of the United States, an act of the
2 Congress of the United States, or an order of the Governor at
3 the time that the member would otherwise be required to fulfill
4 a particular education requirement. Such a person must fulfill
5 the education requirement within 6 months after his or her
6 release from active duty.
7     (e) In the event that any rule of the Department or an EMS
8 Medical Director that requires testing for drug use as a
9 condition for EMT licensure conflicts with or duplicates a
10 provision of a collective bargaining agreement that requires
11 testing for drug use, that rule shall not apply to any person
12 covered by the collective bargaining agreement.
13 (Source: P.A. 92-376, eff. 8-15-01.)
 
14     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
15 becoming law.".