Sen. Ram Villivalam

Filed: 3/21/2024

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3467

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3467 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and
5Audiology Practice Act is amended by changing Sections 3.5,
68.5, and 8.6 as follows:
 
7    (225 ILCS 110/3.5)
8    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
9    Sec. 3.5. Exemptions. This Act does not prohibit:
10        (a) The practice of speech-language pathology or
11    audiology by students in their course of study in programs
12    approved by the Department, or the performance of
13    speech-language pathology assistant services by graduates
14    who have obtained degrees as set forth in paragraph (2) of
15    Section 8.5 of the Act, when acting under the direction
16    and supervision of licensed speech-language pathologists

 

 

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1    or audiologists.
2        (b) The performance of any speech-language pathology
3    service by a speech-language pathology assistant or
4    candidate for licensure as a speech-language pathology
5    assistant, if such service is performed under the
6    supervision and full responsibility of a licensed
7    speech-language pathologist. A speech language pathology
8    assistant or candidate for speech-language pathology
9    assistant licensure may perform only those duties
10    authorized by Section 8.7 under the supervision of a
11    speech-language pathologist as provided in Section 8.8.
12        (b-5) The performance of an audiology service by an
13    appropriately trained person if that service is performed
14    under the supervision and full responsibility of a
15    licensed audiologist.
16        (c) The performance of audiometric testing for the
17    purpose of industrial hearing conservation by an
18    audiometric technician certified by the Council of
19    Accreditation for Occupational Hearing Conservation
20    (CAOHC).
21        (d) The performance of an audiometric screening by an
22    audiometric screenings technician certified by the
23    Department of Public Health.
24        (e) The selling or practice of fitting, dispensing, or
25    servicing hearing instruments by a hearing instrument
26    dispenser licensed under the Hearing Instrument Consumer

 

 

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1    Protection Act.
2        (f) A person licensed in this State under any other
3    Act from engaging in the practice for which he or she is
4    licensed.
5        (g) The performance of vestibular function testing by
6    an appropriately trained person under the supervision of a
7    physician licensed to practice medicine in all its
8    branches.
9        (h) The performance of neurophysiologic intraoperative
10    monitoring of the seventh and eighth cranial nerve by an
11    individual certified by the American Board of Registration
12    of Electroencephalographic and Evoked Potential
13    Technologists as Certified in Neurophysiologic
14    Intraoperative Monitoring only if authorized and
15    supervised by the physician performing the surgical
16    procedure.
17(Source: P.A. 100-530, eff. 1-1-18.)
 
18    (225 ILCS 110/8.5)
19    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
20    Sec. 8.5. Qualifications for licenses as a speech-language
21pathology assistant. A person is qualified to be licensed as a
22speech-language pathology assistant if that person has applied
23in writing or electronically on forms prescribed by the
24Department, has paid the required fees, and meets both of the
25following criteria:

 

 

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1        (1) Is of good moral character. In determining moral
2    character, the Department may take into consideration any
3    felony conviction or plea of guilty or nolo contendere of
4    the applicant, but such a conviction or plea shall not
5    operate automatically as a complete bar to licensure.
6        (2) Has received either (i) an associate degree from a
7    speech-language pathology assistant program that has been
8    approved by the Department and that meets the minimum
9    requirements set forth in Section 8.6, (ii) a bachelor's
10    degree and has completed course work from an accredited
11    college or university that meets the minimum requirements
12    set forth in Section 8.6, or (iii) a bachelor's degree in
13    speech-language pathology or communication sciences and
14    disorders from a regionally or nationally accredited
15    institution approved by the Department that meets the
16    minimum requirements set forth in paragraph (2) of
17    subsection (a) in Section 8.6, and evidence of completion
18    of at least 100 hours of documented field work supervised
19    by a licensed speech-language pathologist that is
20    comparable to field work that completed in a
21    speech-language pathology assistant program in this State,
22    and completion of requirements for certification as a
23    speech-language pathology assistant or completion of an
24    equivalent program as determined by the Department by
25    rule.
26(Source: P.A. 103-302, eff. 1-1-24.)
 

 

 

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1    (225 ILCS 110/8.6)
2    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
3    Sec. 8.6. Minimum requirements for speech-language
4pathology assistant programs.
5    (a) An applicant for licensure as a speech-language
6pathology assistant must have earned 60 semester credit hours
7in a program of study that includes general education and the
8specific knowledge and skills for a speech-language pathology
9assistant. The curriculum of a speech-language pathology
10assistant program must include all of the following content,
11as further provided by rule promulgated by the Department:
12        (1) Twenty-four semester credit hours in general
13    education.
14        (2) Thirty-six semester credit hours in technical
15    content areas designed to provide students with knowledge
16    and skills required for speech-language pathology
17    assistants, which must include (i) an introductory or
18    overview course in of normal processes of communication
19    disorders; (ii) phonetics an overview of communication
20    disorders; (iii) speech sound disorders instruction in
21    speech-language pathology assistant-level service
22    delivery practices; (iv) language development instruction
23    in workplace behaviors; (v) language disorders cultural
24    and linguistic factors in communication; and (vi) anatomy
25    and physiology of speech and hearing mechanisms

 

 

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1    observation.
2        (3) Completion of at least 100 hours of supervised
3    field work experiences supervised by a licensed
4    speech-language pathologist at least 50% of the time when
5    the student is engaged in contact with the patient or
6    client. An applicant must obtain written verification
7    demonstrating successful completion of the required field
8    work experience, including a description of the setting in
9    which the training was received and an assessment of the
10    student's technical proficiency.
11    (b) The Department may promulgate rules that change the
12curriculum requirements of subsection (a) in order to reflect
13the guidelines for speech-language pathology assistant
14programs recommended by the American Speech-Language Hearing
15Association.
16    (c) Any applicant for licensure as a speech-language
17pathology assistant who applies to the Department prior to the
18effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General
19Assembly or any person who holds a valid license as a
20speech-language pathology assistant on the effective date of
21this amendatory Act shall not be required to meet the new
22minimum requirements for a speech language pathology assistant
23program under subsection (a) of this Section 8.6 that are
24established by this amendatory Act.
25(Source: P.A. 96-1315, eff. 7-27-10.)
 

 

 

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1    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
21, 2025.".