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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, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Pharmacy Practice Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 10 as follows:
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| 6 | (225 ILCS 85/10) (from Ch. 111, par. 4130)
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| 7 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
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| 8 | Sec. 10. State Board of Pharmacy. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | (a) There is created in the Department the the
State Board | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | of Pharmacy.
It shall consist of 11 members, 8 of whom shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | licensed pharmacists. One of the licensed pharmacists shall | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | have a primary site for the practice of pharmacy at an | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | inpatient hospital pharmacy.
Each of those 8 members must be a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | licensed pharmacist in good standing
in this State, a graduate | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | of an accredited college of pharmacy or hold
a Bachelor of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | Science degree in Pharmacy and have at least 5 years'
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| 17 | practical experience in the practice of pharmacy subsequent to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | the
date of his licensure as a licensed pharmacist in the State | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | of Illinois. There shall be one member who is a pharmacy | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | technician.
There shall be 2 public members, who shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | voting members, who
shall not be engaged in any way, directly | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | or indirectly, as providers of health care in this State or any | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | other state.
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| 1 | (b) Each member shall be appointed by the Governor.
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| 2 | (c) Members
shall be appointed to 5 year terms. The | ||||||
| 3 | Governor shall fill any vacancy for the remainder of the | ||||||
| 4 | unexpired term. Partial terms over 3 years in length shall be | ||||||
| 5 | considered full terms. A member may be reappointed for a | ||||||
| 6 | successive term, but no member shall serve more than 2 full | ||||||
| 7 | terms in his or her lifetime.
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| 8 | (d) In making the appointment of members on the Board, the | ||||||
| 9 | Governor shall
give due consideration to recommendations by | ||||||
| 10 | the members of the profession
of pharmacy and by pharmacy
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| 11 | organizations therein. The Governor
shall notify the pharmacy
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| 12 | organizations promptly of any vacancy
of members on the Board | ||||||
| 13 | and in appointing members shall give consideration
to | ||||||
| 14 | individuals engaged in all types and settings of pharmacy | ||||||
| 15 | practice.
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| 16 | (e) The Governor may remove any member of the Board for | ||||||
| 17 | misconduct, incapacity,
or neglect of duty, and he or she | ||||||
| 18 | shall be the sole judge of the sufficiency of the
cause for | ||||||
| 19 | removal.
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| 20 | (f) Each member of the Board shall be reimbursed for such | ||||||
| 21 | actual
and legitimate expenses as he or she may incur in going | ||||||
| 22 | to and from the place
of meeting and remaining there during | ||||||
| 23 | sessions of the Board.
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| 24 | (g) The Board shall hold quarterly meetings at such times | ||||||
| 25 | and places and upon
notice as the Department
may determine and | ||||||
| 26 | as its business may require.
A majority of the Board members | ||||||
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| 1 | currently appointed shall constitute a quorum. A vacancy in | ||||||
| 2 | the membership of the Board shall not impair the right of a | ||||||
| 3 | quorum to exercise all the rights and perform all the duties of | ||||||
| 4 | the Board.
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| 5 | (h) The Board shall exercise the rights, powers and duties | ||||||
| 6 | which have been
vested in the Board under this Act, and any | ||||||
| 7 | other duties conferred
upon the Board by law.
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| 8 | (Source: P.A. 102-482, eff. 1-1-22.)
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