Full Text of SB2843 93rd General Assembly
SB2843 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 SB2843
Introduced 2/6/2004, by Edward D. Maloney SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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225 ILCS 65/5-16 new |
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225 ILCS 65/20-40 |
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Amends the Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act. Provides that the
Department of Professional Regulation shall create the Illinois Center for
Nursing. Provides a list of goals for the Center and requires the Center to
work in conjunction with the Illinois Coalition for Nursing Resources in
accomplishing its goals. Provides that moneys in the Nursing Dedicated and
Professional Fund may be used for the establishment of the Center and provides
for the appropriation of money from the Fund to the Department to be used
within 2 fiscal years of the effective date for the Center. Effective
immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT in relation to nursing.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act is | 5 |
| amended by
changing Section 20-40 and adding Section 5-16 as | 6 |
| follows:
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| (225 ILCS 65/5-16 new)
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2008)
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| Sec. 5-16. Illinois Center for Nursing. The Department | 10 |
| shall create the
Illinois Center for Nursing, the goals of | 11 |
| which shall include, but not be
limited to, all of the | 12 |
| following:
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| (1) To develop and implement a strategic statewide plan | 14 |
| to address the nursing workforce needs in Illinois.
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| (2) To evaluate population demographics and available | 16 |
| health indicator
data to determine how the population needs | 17 |
| relate to the demand for nursing services.
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| (3) To create a dynamic system for projecting nurse | 19 |
| workforce supply and demand.
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| (4) To support the development of a nursing workforce | 21 |
| to include the diversity, educational mix, geographic | 22 |
| distribution, and numbers needed within the State.
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| (5) To develop strategies for ensuring adequate | 24 |
| numbers of nurse faculty who
are prepared to educate | 25 |
| students to meet the needs of patients, families, and | 26 |
| health care organizations.
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| (6) To monitor educational trends in nursing, | 28 |
| including applications, enrollments,
and graduate | 29 |
| outcomes.
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| (7) To develop collaborative models between nursing | 31 |
| education and practice to identify necessary competencies, | 32 |
| educational strategies, and models of professional |
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| practice.
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| (8) To provide funding for the planning and | 3 |
| implementation of
demonstration projects of nursing | 4 |
| educational models and professional practice models that | 5 |
| will address the health care needs within the State of | 6 |
| Illinois.
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| The Illinois Center for Nursing shall work in conjunction | 8 |
| with the Illinois
Coalition for Nursing Resources in | 9 |
| accomplishing its goals.
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| (225 ILCS 65/20-40)
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2008)
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| Sec. 20-40. Fund. There is hereby created within the State | 13 |
| Treasury the
Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund. The | 14 |
| monies in the Fund may be
used by and at the direction of the | 15 |
| Department for the administration and
enforcement of this Act, | 16 |
| including but not limited to:
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| (a) Distribution and publication of the Nursing and | 18 |
| Advanced Practice
Nursing Act and the rules at the time of | 19 |
| renewal to all persons licensed by
the Department under | 20 |
| this Act.
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| (b) Employment of secretarial, nursing, | 22 |
| administrative, enforcement, and
other staff for the | 23 |
| administration of this Act.
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| (c) Conducting a survey, as prescribed by rule of the | 25 |
| Department, once
every 4 years during the license renewal | 26 |
| period.
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| (d) Conducting of training seminars for licensees | 28 |
| under this Act relating
to the obligations, | 29 |
| responsibilities, enforcement and other provisions of
the | 30 |
| Act and its rules.
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| (d-5) Establishment of the Illinois Center for Nursing | 32 |
| as provided for
in Section 5-16.
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| (e) Disposition of Fees:
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| (i) (Blank).
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| (ii) All of the fees and fines collected pursuant |
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this Act shall be deposited in the Nursing Dedicated | 2 |
| and Professional Fund.
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| (iii) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1988, | 4 |
| the moneys deposited
in the Nursing Dedicated and | 5 |
| Professional Fund shall be appropriated to the
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| Department for expenses of the Department and the Board | 7 |
| in the
administration of this Act. All earnings | 8 |
| received from investment of
moneys in the Nursing | 9 |
| Dedicated and Professional Fund shall be
deposited in | 10 |
| the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund and shall | 11 |
| be used
for the same purposes as fees deposited in the | 12 |
| Fund.
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| (iv) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2001 and | 14 |
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each fiscal
year thereafter, $750,000 of the moneys | 15 |
| deposited in the
Nursing Dedicated
and Professional | 16 |
| Fund each year shall be set aside and appropriated to | 17 |
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Illinois
Department of Public Health for nursing | 18 |
| scholarships awarded pursuant to
the Nursing Education | 19 |
| Scholarship Law.
Representatives
of the Department and | 20 |
| the Nursing Education Scholarship Program Advisory
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| Council shall review this requirement and
the | 22 |
| scholarship awards every 2 years.
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| (iv-5) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2004, | 24 |
| $1,000,000 of the
moneys
deposited into the Nursing
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| Dedicated and Professional Fund shall be appropriated | 26 |
| to the
Department to be used within 2 fiscal years of | 27 |
| the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 93rd | 28 |
| General Assembly to establish the Illinois Center
for | 29 |
| Nursing as provided for in Section 5-16 and subsection | 30 |
| (d-5) of this
Section.
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| (v) Moneys in the Fund may be transferred to the | 32 |
| Professions
Indirect Cost Fund as authorized under | 33 |
| Section 2105-300 of the
Department of Professional | 34 |
| Regulation Law (20 ILCS 2105/2105-300).
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| (Source: P.A. 91-239, 1-1-00; 92-46, eff. 7-1-01.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 2 |
| becoming law. |
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