Sen. Laura M. Murphy
Filed: 10/19/2021
| |||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 145
| ||||||
| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 145 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| ||||||
| 4 | "Section 5. The Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987 | ||||||
| 5 | is amended by changing Section 6 as follows:
| ||||||
| 6 | (225 ILCS 95/6) (from Ch. 111, par. 4606)
| ||||||
| 7 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
| ||||||
| 8 | Sec. 6. Physician assistant title.
| ||||||
| 9 | (a) No physician assistant shall use
the title of doctor, | ||||||
| 10 | physician, or associate with his or her name or any other term | ||||||
| 11 | that
would indicate to other persons that he or she is | ||||||
| 12 | qualified to engage in the
general practice of medicine.
| ||||||
| 13 | (b) A physician assistant shall verbally identify himself | ||||||
| 14 | or herself as a physician assistant, including specialty | ||||||
| 15 | certification, to each patient. | ||||||
| 16 | (c) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to relieve a | ||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| 1 | physician assistant of the professional or legal | ||||||
| 2 | responsibility for the care and treatment of persons attended | ||||||
| 3 | by him or her.
| ||||||
| 4 | (d) The collaborating physician shall file with the | ||||||
| 5 | Department notice of
employment, discharge, or collaboration | ||||||
| 6 | with a physician assistant within 60 days at the
time of | ||||||
| 7 | employment, discharge, or assumption of collaboration with a
| ||||||
| 8 | physician assistant. Nothing in this Section shall prevent a | ||||||
| 9 | physician assistant from beginning his or her employment | ||||||
| 10 | before the notice of employment or collaboration has been | ||||||
| 11 | filed.
| ||||||
| 12 | (Source: P.A. 100-453, eff. 8-25-17.)".
| ||||||