HB0182 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0182

Introduced 1/19/2007, by Rep. Patricia R. Bellock

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

New Act

Creates the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Training Act. Provides that the University of Illinois at Chicago shall expand its focus on enrolling, training, and graduating forensic mental health professionals by creating a forensic psychiatry fellowship training program at its College of Medicine. Contains provisions concerning the powers and duties of the University of Illinois at Chicago under the program, program curriculum, and State funding. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning education.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Training Act.

Section 5. Creation of program. The University of Illinois at Chicago shall expand its focus on enrolling, training, and graduating forensic mental health professionals by creating a forensic psychiatry fellowship training program at its College of Medicine.

Section 10. Powers and duties under program. Under the forensic psychiatry fellowship training program created under Section 5 of this Act, the University of Illinois at Chicago has all of the following powers and duties:

(1) The University of Illinois at Chicago's undergraduate and graduate programs may increase their service and training commitments in order to provide mental health care to chronically mentally ill populations in this State.

(2) The University of Illinois at Chicago shall coordinate service, education, and research in mental health and may work with communities, State agencies, other colleges and universities, private foundations, health care providers, and other interested organizations on innovative strategies to respond to the challenges of providing greater physician presence in the field of forensic psychiatry.

(3) The University of Illinois at Chicago may establish such clinical and educational centers and may cooperate with other universities and associations as may be necessary to carry out the intent of this Act according to the following priorities:

(A) a preference for programs that are designed to enroll, educate, and facilitate the graduation of mental health professionals trained in forensic psychiatry and other forensic mental health sub-specialities; and

(B) a preference for programs that involve networking with other agencies, organizations, and institutions that have similar objectives.

Section 15. Program curriculum. The curriculum for the forensic psychiatry fellowship training program created under Section 5 of this Act shall be developed in accordance with criteria established by the Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

Section 20. Funding. Subject to appropriations for this purpose, each fiscal year $1,000,000 shall be earmarked for the forensic psychiatry fellowship training program created under Section 5 of this Act from the State funding designated for the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.