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    (Section scheduled to be repealed on November 30, 2011)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.