Public Act 099-0621
 
SB2332 EnrolledLRB099 15980 KTG 40297 b


  
    AN ACT concerning public aid.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended  by 
changing Section 5-8 as follows:
 
    (305 ILCS 5/5-8)  (from Ch. 23, par. 5-8)

    Sec. 5-8. Practitioners.  In supplying medical assistance, 
the Illinois
Department may provide for the legally authorized 
services of (i) persons
licensed under the Medical Practice Act 
of 1987, as amended, except as
hereafter in this Section 
stated, whether under a
general or limited license, (ii) 
persons licensed under the Nurse Practice Act as advanced 
practice nurses, regardless of whether or not the persons have 
written collaborative agreements, (iii) persons licensed or 
registered
under
other laws of this State to provide dental, 
medical, pharmaceutical,
optometric, podiatric, or nursing 
services, or other remedial care
recognized under State law, 
and (iv) persons licensed under other laws of
this State as a 
clinical social worker. The Department shall adopt rules, no 
later than 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory 
Act of the 99th General Assembly, for the legally authorized 
services of persons licensed under other laws of this State as 
a clinical social worker.
The Department may not provide for 
legally
authorized services of any physician who has been 
convicted of having performed
an abortion procedure in a wilful 
and wanton manner on a woman who was not
pregnant at the time 
such abortion procedure was performed.  The
utilization of the 
services of persons engaged in the treatment or care of
the 
sick, which persons are not required to be licensed or 
registered under
the laws of this State, is not prohibited by 
this Section.


(Source: P.A. 99-173, eff. 7-29-15.)