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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection Act | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | is amended by changing Sections 3 and 9 and by adding Section | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | 9.5 as follows:
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| 7 | (225 ILCS 50/3) (from Ch. 111, par. 7403)
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| 8 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016)
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| 9 | Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this Act, except as the | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | context
requires otherwise:
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| 11 | "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
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| 12 | "Director" means the Director of the Department of Public | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Health.
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| 14 | "License" means a license
issued by the State under this
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| 15 | Act to a hearing instrument dispenser.
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| 16 | "Licensed Audiologist" means a person
licensed
as an | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | audiologist under the Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | Audiology
Practice Act.
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| 19 | "National Board Certified Hearing Instrument
Specialist" | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | means a person
who has had at least 2 years in practice as a | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | licensed hearing
instrument dispenser and has
been certified | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | after qualification by examination by the National Board for
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| 23 | Certification in Hearing Instruments Sciences.
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| 1 | "Licensed physician" or "physician" means a physician | ||||||
| 2 | licensed
in Illinois to
practice medicine in all of its | ||||||
| 3 | branches.
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| 4 | "Trainee" means a person who performs the functions of a | ||||||
| 5 | hearing instrument dispenser in accordance with the Department | ||||||
| 6 | rules and only under the direct supervision of a licensed | ||||||
| 7 | hearing instrument dispenser. | ||||||
| 8 | "Board" means the Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection
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| 9 | Board.
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| 10 | "Hearing instrument" or "hearing aid" means any instrument | ||||||
| 11 | or
device
designed, intended,
or offered for the purpose of | ||||||
| 12 | improving a person's hearing and any parts,
attachments,
or
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| 13 | accessories, including earmold.
Batteries, cords, and | ||||||
| 14 | individual or group auditory training devices and any
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| 15 | instrument or device used by a public utility in providing | ||||||
| 16 | telephone or
other communication services are excluded.
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| 17 | "Practice of fitting, dispensing, or servicing of hearing
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| 18 | instruments" means
the measurement of human hearing with an
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| 19 | audiometer, calibrated to
the current American National | ||||||
| 20 | Standard Institute standards, for the
purpose of making | ||||||
| 21 | selections, recommendations, adaptions, services, or sales of
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| 22 | hearing instruments including the making of earmolds as a part | ||||||
| 23 | of the hearing
instrument.
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| 24 | "Sell" or "sale" means any transfer of title or of the | ||||||
| 25 | right to use
by lease, bailment, or any other contract, | ||||||
| 26 | excluding wholesale transactions
with distributors or dealers.
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| 1 | "Hearing instrument dispenser" means a person who
is a | ||||||
| 2 | hearing care professional that engages
in the selling,
practice | ||||||
| 3 | of fitting, selecting, recommending, dispensing, or servicing
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| 4 | of hearing instruments or the testing for means of hearing
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| 5 | instrument selection or who
advertises or displays a sign or | ||||||
| 6 | represents himself or herself as a person
who
practices the | ||||||
| 7 | testing, fitting, selecting, servicing, dispensing,
or selling | ||||||
| 8 | of hearing instruments.
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| 9 | "Fund" means the Hearing Instrument Dispenser Examining
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| 10 | and Disciplinary Fund.
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| 11 | "Hearing Care Professional" means a person who is a | ||||||
| 12 | licensed
audiologist, a licensed hearing instrument dispenser, | ||||||
| 13 | or a licensed
physician.
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| 14 | (Source: P.A. 89-72, eff. 12-31-95.)
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| 15 | (225 ILCS 50/9.5 new) | ||||||
| 16 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016) | ||||||
| 17 | Sec. 9.5. Trainees. | ||||||
| 18 | (a) A trainee shall perform the functions of a hearing | ||||||
| 19 | instrument dispenser in accordance with the Department rules | ||||||
| 20 | and only under the direct supervision of a licensed hearing | ||||||
| 21 | instrument dispenser. For the purposes of this Section, "direct | ||||||
| 22 | supervision" means that the licensed hearing instrument | ||||||
| 23 | dispenser shall give final approval to all work performed by | ||||||
| 24 | the trainee and shall be physically present at the time any | ||||||
| 25 | hearing instrument or hearing aid is delivered to the client. | ||||||
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| 1 | The licensed hearing instrument dispenser is responsible for | ||||||
| 2 | all of the work that is performed by the trainee. | ||||||
| 3 | (b) The Department shall establish by rule a training | ||||||
| 4 | program for trainees that shall be at least 12 months in | ||||||
| 5 | length. | ||||||
| 6 | (c) The Department may limit the number of trainees that | ||||||
| 7 | may be under the direct supervision of the same licensed | ||||||
| 8 | hearing instrument dispenser.
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