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SB930 Engrossed                      LRB093 03168 AMC 03185 b

 1        AN ACT in relation to the regulation of professions.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987 is  amended
 5    by changing Section 8 as follows:

 6        (225 ILCS 85/8) (from Ch. 111, par. 4128)
 7        (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2008)
 8        Sec.  8.   Licensure  without examination. The Department
 9    may, in its discretion,  license  as  a  pharmacist,  without
10    examination, on payment of the required fee, an applicant who
11    is so licensed under the laws of another U.S. jurisdiction or
12    another  country,  if  the  requirements for licensure in the
13    other jurisdiction in which the applicant was licensed, were,
14    at the date of his  licensure  deemed  by  the  Board  to  be
15    substantially equivalent to the requirements then in force in
16    this State.
17    (Source: P.A. 85-796.)