103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB5532
 
Introduced 2/9/2024, by Rep. Travis Weaver
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
225 ILCS 110/8.5
    Amends the Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Practice Act. Makes changes in provisions concerning the educational requirements for licensure as a speech-language pathology assistant. Effective January 1, 2025.


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A BILL FOR
 
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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and 
5Audiology Practice Act is amended by changing Section 8.5 as 
6follows:
 
7    (225 ILCS 110/8.5)
8    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
9    Sec. 8.5. Qualifications for licenses as a speech-language 
10pathology assistant. A person is qualified to be licensed as a 
11speech-language pathology assistant if that person has applied 
12in writing or electronically on forms prescribed by the 
13Department, has paid the required fees, and meets both of the 
14following criteria:
15        (1) Is of good moral character. In determining moral 
16    character, the Department may take into consideration any 
17    felony conviction or plea of guilty or nolo contendere of 
18    the applicant, but such a conviction or plea shall not 
19    operate automatically as a complete bar to licensure. 
20        (2) Has received either (i) an associate degree from a 
21    speech-language pathology assistant program that has been 
22    approved by the Department and that meets the minimum 
23    requirements set forth in Section 8.6; , (ii) a bachelor's 
 
 
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1    degree and has completed course work from an accredited 
2    college or university that meets the minimum requirements 
3    set forth in Section 8.6; , or (iii) a bachelor's degree in 
4    speech-language pathology or communication sciences and 
5    disorders from a regionally or nationally accredited 
6    institution approved by the Department that meets the 
7    minimum requirements set forth in paragraph (2) of 
8    subsection (a) in Section 8.6, and evidence of completion 
9    of at least 100 hours of documented field work supervised 
10    by a nationally certified and licensed speech-language 
11    pathologist that is comparable to field work that 
12    completed in a speech-language pathology assistant program 
13    in this State, and completion of requirements for national 
14    certification as a speech-language pathology assistant.
15(Source: P.A. 103-302, eff. 1-1-24.)
 
16    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 
171, 2025.