Full Text of SB3061 96th General Assembly
SB3061ham001 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Health Care Licenses Committee
Filed: 4/21/2010
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3061
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3061 on page 1, by | 3 |
| replacing line 5 with "changing Section 9 and by adding Section | 4 |
| 19.2 as follows:"; and
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| on page 1, immediately below line 5, by inserting the | 6 |
| following: | 7 |
| "(225 ILCS 25/9) (from Ch. 111, par. 2309) | 8 |
| (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016) | 9 |
| Sec. 9. Qualifications of Applicants for Dental Licenses. | 10 |
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Department shall require that each applicant for a license | 11 |
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practice dentistry shall: | 12 |
| (a) (Blank). | 13 |
| (b) Be at least 21 years of age and of good moral | 14 |
| character. | 15 |
| (c) (1) Present satisfactory evidence of completion of | 16 |
| dental
education by graduation from a dental college or |
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| school in the United
States or Canada approved by the | 2 |
| Department. The Department shall not approve
any dental | 3 |
| college or school which does not require at least (A) 60 | 4 |
| semester
hours of collegiate credit or the equivalent in | 5 |
| acceptable subjects from a
college or university before | 6 |
| admission, and (B) completion of at least 4
academic years | 7 |
| of instruction or the equivalent in an approved dental | 8 |
| college
or school that is accredited by the Commission on | 9 |
| Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association | 10 |
| before graduation ; or | 11 |
| (2) Present satisfactory evidence of completion of | 12 |
| dental education by
graduation from a dental college or | 13 |
| school outside the United States or
Canada and provide | 14 |
| satisfactory evidence that: | 15 |
| (A) (blank); | 16 |
| (B) the applicant has completed a minimum of 2 | 17 |
| academic years of general
dental clinical training at a | 18 |
| dental college or school in the United States or
Canada | 19 |
| approved by the Department, however, an accredited | 20 |
| advanced dental education program approved by the | 21 |
| Department of no less than 2 years may be substituted | 22 |
| for the 2 academic years of general dental clinical | 23 |
| training and an applicant who was enrolled
for not less | 24 |
| than one year in an approved clinical program prior to | 25 |
| January 1,
1993 at an Illinois dental college or school | 26 |
| shall be required to complete only
that program; and |
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| (C) the applicant has received certification from | 2 |
| the dean of an
approved dental college or school in the | 3 |
| United States or Canada or the program director of an | 4 |
| approved advanced dental education program stating | 5 |
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the applicant has achieved the same level of | 6 |
| scientific knowledge and clinical
competence as | 7 |
| required of all graduates of the college, school, or | 8 |
| advanced dental education program. | 9 |
| Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent | 10 |
| either the Department or
any dental college or school from | 11 |
| establishing higher standards than
specified in this Act. | 12 |
| (d) (Blank). In determining professional capacity | 13 |
| under this Section, any
individual who has not been | 14 |
| actively engaged in the practice of dentistry,
has not been | 15 |
| a dental student, or has not been engaged in a formal | 16 |
| program
of dental education during the 5 years immediately | 17 |
| preceding the filing of an
application may be required to | 18 |
| complete such additional testing, training, or
remedial | 19 |
| education as the Board may deem necessary in order to | 20 |
| establish
the applicant's present capacity to practice | 21 |
| dentistry with reasonable
judgment, skill, and safety. | 22 |
| (e) Present satisfactory evidence that the applicant | 23 |
| has passed both parts of the National Board Dental | 24 |
| Examination administered by the Joint Commission on | 25 |
| National Dental Examinations and has successfully | 26 |
| completed an examination conducted by one of the following |
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| regional testing services: the Central Regional Dental | 2 |
| Testing Service, Inc. (CRDTS), the Southern Regional | 3 |
| Testing Agency, Inc. (SRTA), the Western Regional | 4 |
| Examining Board (WREB), or the North East Regional Board | 5 |
| (NERB). For purposes of this Section, successful | 6 |
| completion shall mean that the applicant has achieved a | 7 |
| minimum passing score as determined by the applicable | 8 |
| regional testing service. (f) The Secretary of the | 9 |
| Department may suspend a regional testing service under | 10 |
| this subsection (e) of this Section if, after proper notice | 11 |
| and hearing, it is established that (i) the integrity of | 12 |
| the examination has been breached so as to make future test | 13 |
| results unreliable or (ii) the test is fundamentally | 14 |
| deficient in testing clinical competency. | 15 |
| In determining professional capacity under this Section, | 16 |
| any
individual who has not been actively engaged in the | 17 |
| practice of dentistry,
has not been a dental student, or has | 18 |
| not been engaged in a formal program
of dental education during | 19 |
| the 5 years immediately preceding the filing of an
application | 20 |
| may be required to complete such additional testing, training, | 21 |
| or
remedial education as the Board may deem necessary in order | 22 |
| to establish
the applicant's present capacity to practice | 23 |
| dentistry with reasonable
judgment, skill, and safety. | 24 |
| (Source: P.A. 96-14, eff. 6-19-09; revised 11-3-09.)"; and
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| on page 1, by replacing line 17 with " Sections 9 and 13 of this |
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