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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 Section 3 and by adding Section 9.5 as | ||||||
| 6 | 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| 8 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016)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 is licensed to perform the | ||||||
| 5 | functions of a hearing instrument dispenser in accordance with | ||||||
| 6 | the Department rules and only under the direct supervision of a | ||||||
| 7 | hearing instrument dispenser or audiologist who is licensed in | ||||||
| 8 | the State. | ||||||
| 9 | "Board" means the Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection
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| 10 | Board.
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| 11 | "Hearing instrument" or "hearing aid" means any instrument | ||||||
| 12 | or
device
designed, intended,
or offered for the purpose of | ||||||
| 13 | improving a person's hearing and any parts,
attachments,
or
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| 14 | accessories, including earmold.
Batteries, cords, and | ||||||
| 15 | individual or group auditory training devices and any
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| 16 | instrument or device used by a public utility in providing | ||||||
| 17 | telephone or
other communication services are excluded.
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| 18 | "Practice of fitting, dispensing, or servicing of hearing
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| 19 | instruments" means
the measurement of human hearing with an
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| 20 | audiometer, calibrated to
the current American National | ||||||
| 21 | Standard Institute standards, for the
purpose of making | ||||||
| 22 | selections, recommendations, adaptions, services, or sales of
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| 23 | hearing instruments including the making of earmolds as a part | ||||||
| 24 | of the hearing
instrument.
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| 25 | "Sell" or "sale" means any transfer of title or of the | ||||||
| 26 | right to use
by lease, bailment, or any other contract, | ||||||
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| 1 | excluding wholesale transactions
with distributors or dealers.
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| 2 | "Hearing instrument dispenser" means a person who
is a | ||||||
| 3 | hearing care professional that engages
in the selling,
practice | ||||||
| 4 | of fitting, selecting, recommending, dispensing, or servicing
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| 5 | of hearing instruments or the testing for means of hearing
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| 6 | instrument selection or who
advertises or displays a sign or | ||||||
| 7 | represents himself or herself as a person
who
practices the | ||||||
| 8 | testing, fitting, selecting, servicing, dispensing,
or selling | ||||||
| 9 | of hearing instruments.
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| 10 | "Fund" means the Hearing Instrument Dispenser Examining
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| 11 | and Disciplinary Fund.
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| 12 | "Hearing Care Professional" means a person who is a | ||||||
| 13 | licensed
audiologist, a licensed hearing instrument dispenser, | ||||||
| 14 | or a licensed
physician.
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| 15 | (Source: P.A. 89-72, eff. 12-31-95.)
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| 16 | (225 ILCS 50/9.5 new) | ||||||
| 17 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016) | ||||||
| 18 | Sec. 9.5. Trainees. | ||||||
| 19 | (a) In order to receive a trainee license, a person must | ||||||
| 20 | apply to the Department and provide acceptable evidence of his | ||||||
| 21 | or her completion of the required courses pursuant to | ||||||
| 22 | subsection (e) of Section 8 of this Act, or its equivalent as | ||||||
| 23 | determined by the Department. A trainee license expires 6 | ||||||
| 24 | months from the date of issue and is non-renewable. | ||||||
| 25 | (b) A trainee shall perform the functions of a hearing | ||||||
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| 1 | instrument dispenser in accordance with the Department rules | ||||||
| 2 | and only under the direct supervision of a hearing instrument | ||||||
| 3 | dispenser or audiologist who is licensed in the State. For the | ||||||
| 4 | purposes of this Section, "direct supervision" means that the | ||||||
| 5 | licensed hearing instrument dispenser or audiologist shall | ||||||
| 6 | give final approval to all work performed by the trainee and | ||||||
| 7 | shall be physically present anytime the trainee has contact | ||||||
| 8 | with the client. The licensed hearing instrument dispenser or | ||||||
| 9 | audiologist is responsible for all of the work that is | ||||||
| 10 | performed by the trainee. | ||||||
| 11 | (c) The Department may limit the number of trainees that | ||||||
| 12 | may be under the direct supervision of the same licensed | ||||||
| 13 | hearing instrument dispenser or licensed audiologist.
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