Full Text of HB2308 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning safety.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Radiation Protection Act of 1990 is amended | 5 | | by changing Section 6 as follows:
| 6 | | (420 ILCS 40/6) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 210-6)
| 7 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
| 8 | | Sec. 6. Accreditation of administrators of radiation; | 9 | | Limited scope
accreditation; Rules and regulations; Education. | 10 | | (a) The Agency shall promulgate such rules and regulations | 11 | | as are
necessary to establish accreditation standards and | 12 | | procedures, including a
minimum course of education and | 13 | | continuing education requirements in the
administration of | 14 | | radiation to human beings, which are appropriate to the
| 15 | | classification of accreditation and which are to be met by all | 16 | | physician
assistants, advanced practice registered nurses, | 17 | | nurses,
technicians, or other assistants who administer | 18 | | radiation to human beings
under the supervision of a person | 19 | | licensed under the Medical Practice Act
of 1987. Such rules | 20 | | and regulations may provide for different classes of
| 21 | | accreditation based on evidence of national certification, | 22 | | clinical
experience or community hardship as conditions of | 23 | | initial and continuing
accreditation. The rules and |
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| 1 | | regulations of the Agency shall be
consistent with national | 2 | | standards in regard to the protection of the
health and safety | 3 | | of the general public.
| 4 | | (b) The rules and regulations shall also provide that
| 5 | | persons who have been accredited by the Agency, in accordance | 6 | | with the
Radiation Protection Act, without passing an | 7 | | examination, will remain
accredited as provided in Section 43 | 8 | | of this Act and that those persons may
be accredited, without | 9 | | passing an examination, to use other equipment,
procedures, or | 10 | | supervision within the original category of accreditation if
| 11 | | the Agency receives written assurances from a person licensed | 12 | | under the
Medical Practice Act of 1987, that the person | 13 | | accredited has
the necessary
skill and qualifications for such | 14 | | additional equipment procedures or
supervision. The Agency | 15 | | shall, in accordance with subsection (c) of
this Section, | 16 | | provide for the accreditation of nurses, technicians, or
other | 17 | | assistants, unless exempted elsewhere in this Act, to perform | 18 | | a
limited scope of diagnostic radiography procedures of the | 19 | | chest, the
extremities, skull and sinuses, or the spine, while | 20 | | under the
supervision of a person licensed under the Medical | 21 | | Practice Act of 1987.
| 22 | | (c) The rules or regulations promulgated by the Agency | 23 | | pursuant to
subsection (a) shall establish standards and | 24 | | procedures for accrediting
persons to perform a limited scope | 25 | | of diagnostic radiography procedures.
The rules or regulations | 26 | | shall specify that an individual seeking accreditation for |
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| 1 | | limited diagnostic radiography shall not apply ionizing | 2 | | radiation to human beings until the individual has passed an | 3 | | Agency-approved examination and is accredited by the Agency. | 4 | | The rules or regulations shall require persons seeking limited | 5 | | scope
accreditation to register with the Agency as a | 6 | | "student-in-training,"
and declare those procedures in which | 7 | | the student will be receiving
training. The | 8 | | student-in-training registration shall be valid for a period
| 9 | | of 16 months, during which the time the student may, under the | 10 | | supervision
of a person licensed under the Medical Practice | 11 | | Act of 1987, perform the
diagnostic radiography procedures | 12 | | listed on the student's registration.
The student-in-training | 13 | | registration shall be nonrenewable.
| 14 | | For an individual Upon expiration of the 16 month training | 15 | | period, the student shall be
prohibited from performing | 16 | | diagnostic radiography procedures unless
accredited by the | 17 | | Agency to perform such procedures. In order to be
accredited | 18 | | to perform a limited scope of diagnostic radiography | 19 | | procedures, he or she
an individual must pass an examination | 20 | | approved offered by the Agency. The
examination shall be | 21 | | consistent with national standards in regard to
protection of | 22 | | public health and safety. The examination shall consist of a
| 23 | | standardized component covering general principles applicable | 24 | | to diagnostic
radiography procedures and a clinical component | 25 | | specific to the types of
procedures for which accreditation is | 26 | | being sought. The Agency may
assess a reasonable fee for such |
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| 1 | | examinations to cover any the costs incurred
by the Agency in | 2 | | conjunction with offering the examinations.
| 3 | | (d) The Agency shall by rule or regulation exempt from | 4 | | accreditation
physician assistants, advanced practice | 5 | | registered nurses, nurses, technicians, or
other assistants | 6 | | who
administer radiation to human
beings under supervision of | 7 | | a person licensed to practice under the Medical
Practice Act | 8 | | of 1987 when the services are performed on employees of a
| 9 | | business at a medical facility owned and operated by the | 10 | | business. Such
exemption shall only apply to the equipment, | 11 | | procedures and supervision
specific to the medical facility | 12 | | owned and operated by the business.
| 13 | | (Source: P.A. 100-513, eff. 1-1-18 .)
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