Public Act 097-0462
 
SB1843 EnrolledLRB097 10065 CEL 50242 b

    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Medical Practice Act of 1987 is amended by
changing Section 2 as follows:
 
    (225 ILCS 60/2)  (from Ch. 111, par. 4400-2)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on November 30, 2011)
    Sec. 2. Definitions. For purposes of this Act, the
following definitions shall have the following meanings,
except where the context requires otherwise:
    1. "Act" means the Medical Practice Act of 1987.
    1.5. "Chiropractic physician" means a person licensed to
treat human ailments without the use of drugs and without
operative surgery. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to
prohibit a chiropractic physician from providing advice
regarding the use of non-prescription products or from
administering atmospheric oxygen. Nothing in this Act shall be
construed to authorize a chiropractic physician to prescribe
drugs.
    2. "Department" means the Department of Professional
Regulation.
    3. "Director" means the Director of Professional
Regulation.
    4. "Disciplinary Action" means revocation, suspension,
probation, supervision, practice modification, reprimand,
required education, fines or any other action taken by the
Department against a person holding a license.
    5. "Disciplinary Board" means the Medical Disciplinary
Board.
    6. "Final Determination" means the governing body's final
action taken under the procedure followed by a health care
institution, or professional association or society, against
any person licensed under the Act in accordance with the bylaws
or rules and regulations of such health care institution, or
professional association or society.
    7. "Fund" means the Medical Disciplinary Fund.
    8. "Impaired" means the inability to practice medicine with
reasonable skill and safety due to physical or mental
disabilities as evidenced by a written determination or written
consent based on clinical evidence including deterioration
through the aging process or loss of motor skill, or abuse of
drugs or alcohol, of sufficient degree to diminish a person's
ability to deliver competent patient care.
    9. "Licensing Board" means the Medical Licensing Board.
    10. "Physician" means a person licensed under the Medical
Practice Act to practice medicine in all of its branches or a
chiropractic physician licensed to treat human ailments
without the use of drugs and without operative surgery.
    11. "Professional Association" means an association or
society of persons licensed under this Act, and operating
within the State of Illinois, including but not limited to,
medical societies, osteopathic organizations, and chiropractic
organizations, but this term shall not be deemed to include
hospital medical staffs.
    12. "Program of Care, Counseling, or Treatment" means a
written schedule of organized treatment, care, counseling,
activities, or education, satisfactory to the Disciplinary
Board, designed for the purpose of restoring an impaired person
to a condition whereby the impaired person can practice
medicine with reasonable skill and safety of a sufficient
degree to deliver competent patient care.
(Source: P.A. 85-1209; 85-1245; 85-1440.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.