Full Text of HB1496 99th General Assembly
HB1496 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2015 and 2016 HB1496 Introduced 2/6/2015, by Rep. Michael P. McAuliffe SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 225 ILCS 25/9 | from Ch. 111, par. 2309 |
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Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. In provisions requiring applicants for a dental license who did not graduate from a dental school in the United States or Canada to complete 2 years of general dental clinical training in the United States or Canada prior to licensure, removes provisions allowing the applicant to substitute other forms of training and requiring the applicant to have received specified certification from a dean of an approved college or school in the United States or Canada or a program director of an advanced dental education program.
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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 Illinois Dental Practice Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 9 as follows: | 6 | | (225 ILCS 25/9) (from Ch. 111, par. 2309) | 7 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016) | 8 | | Sec. 9. Qualifications of Applicants for Dental Licenses. | 9 | | The
Department shall require that each applicant for a license | 10 | | to
practice dentistry shall: | 11 | | (a) (Blank). | 12 | | (b) Be at least 21 years of age and of good moral | 13 | | character. | 14 | | (c) (1) Present satisfactory evidence of completion of | 15 | | dental
education by graduation from a dental college or | 16 | | school in the United
States or Canada approved by the | 17 | | Department. The Department shall not approve
any dental | 18 | | college or school which does not require at least (A) 60 | 19 | | semester
hours of collegiate credit or the equivalent in | 20 | | acceptable subjects from a
college or university before | 21 | | admission, and (B) completion of at least 4
academic years | 22 | | of instruction or the equivalent in an approved dental | 23 | | college
or school that is accredited by the Commission on |
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| 1 | | Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association; | 2 | | or | 3 | | (2) Present satisfactory evidence of completion of | 4 | | dental education by
graduation from a dental college or | 5 | | school outside the United States or
Canada and provide | 6 | | satisfactory evidence that : (A) (blank); (B) the applicant | 7 | | has completed a minimum of 2 academic years of general
| 8 | | dental clinical training at a dental college or school in | 9 | | the United States or
Canada approved by the Department . , | 10 | | however, an accredited advanced dental education program | 11 | | approved by the Department of no less than 2 years may be | 12 | | substituted for the 2 academic years of general dental | 13 | | clinical training and an applicant who was enrolled
for not | 14 | | less than one year in an approved clinical program prior to | 15 | | January 1,
1993 at an Illinois dental college or school | 16 | | shall be required to complete only
that program; and | 17 | | (C) the applicant has received certification from | 18 | | the dean of an
approved dental college or school in the | 19 | | United States or Canada or the program director of an | 20 | | approved advanced dental education program stating | 21 | | that
the applicant has achieved the same level of | 22 | | scientific knowledge and clinical
competence as | 23 | | required of all graduates of the college, school, or | 24 | | advanced dental education program. | 25 | | Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent | 26 | | either the Department or
any dental college or school from |
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| 1 | | establishing higher standards than
specified in this Act. | 2 | | (d) (Blank). | 3 | | (e) Present satisfactory evidence that the applicant | 4 | | has passed both parts of the National Board Dental | 5 | | Examination administered by the Joint Commission on | 6 | | National Dental Examinations and has successfully | 7 | | completed an examination conducted by one of the following | 8 | | regional testing services: the Central Regional Dental | 9 | | Testing Service, Inc. (CRDTS), the Southern Regional | 10 | | Testing Agency, Inc. (SRTA), the Western Regional | 11 | | Examining Board (WREB), the North East Regional Board | 12 | | (NERB), or the Council of Interstate Testing Agencies | 13 | | (CITA). For purposes of this Section, successful | 14 | | completion shall mean that the applicant has achieved a | 15 | | minimum passing score as determined by the applicable | 16 | | regional testing service. The Secretary may suspend a | 17 | | regional testing service under this subsection (e) if, | 18 | | after proper notice and hearing, it is established that (i) | 19 | | the integrity of the examination has been breached so as to | 20 | | make future test results unreliable or (ii) the test is | 21 | | fundamentally deficient in testing clinical competency. | 22 | | In determining professional capacity under this Section, | 23 | | any
individual who has not been actively engaged in the | 24 | | practice of dentistry,
has not been a dental student, or has | 25 | | not been engaged in a formal program
of dental education during | 26 | | the 5 years immediately preceding the filing of an
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| 1 | | may be required to complete such additional testing, training, | 2 | | or
remedial education as the Board may deem necessary in order | 3 | | to establish
the applicant's present capacity to practice | 4 | | dentistry with reasonable
judgment, skill, and safety. | 5 | | (Source: P.A. 96-14, eff. 6-19-09; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10; | 6 | | 96-1222, eff. 7-23-10; 97-526, eff. 1-1-12; 97-1013, eff. | 7 | | 8-17-12.)
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