Full Text of SB1590 103rd General Assembly
SB1590 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2023 and 2024 SB1590 Introduced 2/8/2023, by Sen. Christopher Belt SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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110 ILCS 935/3.07 | from Ch. 144, par. 1453.07 |
110 ILCS 935/3.09 | | 110 ILCS 935/3.11 new | | 110 ILCS 949/10 | |
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Amends the Underserved Health Care Provider Workforce Act. Includes a student studying chiropractic medicine and chiropractic physicians in the Act's provisions. Amends the Loan Repayment for Physicians Act. Provides that the term "physician" means a person licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 (instead of a person licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 to practice medicine in all of its branches). Provides that the term "educational loans" means higher education student loans that a person has incurred in attending a registered professional physician education program, including a registered medical school or a registered chiropractic college or institution (instead of higher education student loans that a person has incurred in attending a registered professional physician education program).
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Underserved Health Care Provider Workforce | 5 | | Act is amended by changing Sections 3.07 and 3.09 and by adding | 6 | | Section 3.11 as follows:
| 7 | | (110 ILCS 935/3.07) (from Ch. 144, par. 1453.07)
| 8 | | Sec. 3.07.
"Eligible medical student" means a person who | 9 | | meets all of
the following qualifications:
| 10 | | (a) he or she is an Illinois resident at the time of | 11 | | application for
a scholarship under the program | 12 | | established by this Act;
| 13 | | (b) he or she is studying medicine in a medical school | 14 | | located in
Illinois or studying chiropractic medicine in a | 15 | | chiropractic college or institution in Illinois ;
| 16 | | (c) he or she exhibits financial need as determined by | 17 | | the
Department; and
| 18 | | (d) he or she agrees to practice full-time in a | 19 | | Designated
Shortage Area as a primary care physician, | 20 | | general surgeon, emergency medicine physician, or | 21 | | obstetrician , or chiropractic physician one year for each | 22 | | year he or she
is a scholarship recipient.
| 23 | | (Source: P.A. 101-118, eff. 7-22-19.)
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| 1 | | (110 ILCS 935/3.09) | 2 | | Sec. 3.09. Eligible health care provider. "Eligible health | 3 | | care provider" means a primary care physician, general | 4 | | surgeon, emergency medicine physician, obstetrician, | 5 | | chiropractic physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or | 6 | | physician assistant who accepts Medicaid, Medicare, the | 7 | | State's Children's Health Insurance Program, private | 8 | | insurance, and self-pay.
| 9 | | (Source: P.A. 101-118, eff. 7-22-19; 102-888, eff. 5-17-22.) | 10 | | (110 ILCS 935/3.11 new) | 11 | | Sec. 3.11. Chiropractic physician. "Chiropractic | 12 | | physician" means a chiropractic physician as defined in the | 13 | | Medical Practice Act of 1987. | 14 | | Section 10. The Loan
Repayment Assistance for Physicians | 15 | | Act is amended by changing Section 10 as follows: | 16 | | (110 ILCS 949/10)
| 17 | | Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act, unless the context | 18 | | otherwise requires:
| 19 | | "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
| 20 | | "Educational loans" means higher education student loans | 21 | | that a
person has incurred in attending a registered | 22 | | professional physician
education program , including a |
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| 1 | | registered medical school or a registered chiropractic college | 2 | | or institution .
| 3 | | "Physician" means a person licensed under the Medical | 4 | | Practice Act of 1987 to practice medicine in all of its | 5 | | branches .
| 6 | | "Program" means the educational loan repayment assistance | 7 | | program for
physicians established by the Department under | 8 | | this Act.
| 9 | | (Source: P.A. 94-368, eff. 7-29-05.)
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