(225 ILCS 60/36) (from Ch. 111, par. 4400-36)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
Sec. 36. Investigation; notice. (a) Upon the motion of either the Department
or the Medical Board or upon the verified complaint in
writing of any person setting forth facts which, if proven,
would constitute grounds for suspension or revocation under
Section 22 of this Act, the Department shall investigate the
actions of any person, so accused, who holds or represents
that he or she holds a license. Such person is hereinafter called
the accused.
(b) The Department shall, before suspending, revoking,
placing on probationary status, or taking any other
disciplinary action as the Department may deem proper with
regard to any license at least 30 days prior to the date set
for the hearing, notify the accused in writing of any
charges made and the time and place for a hearing of the
charges before the Medical Board, direct him or her to file his or her
written answer thereto to the Medical Board under
oath within 20 days after the service on him or her of such notice
and inform him or her that if he or she fails to file such answer
default will be taken against him or her and his or her license may be
suspended, revoked, placed on probationary status, or have
other disciplinary action, including limiting the scope,
nature or extent of his or her practice, as the Department may
deem proper taken with regard thereto. The Department shall, at least 14 days prior to the date set for the hearing, notify in writing any person who filed a complaint against the accused of the time and place for the hearing of the charges against the accused before the Medical Board and inform such person whether he or she may provide testimony at the hearing.
(c) (Blank).
(d) Such written notice and any notice in such proceedings
thereafter may be served by personal delivery, email to the respondent's email address of record, or mail to the respondent's address of record.
(e) All information gathered by the Department during its investigation
including information subpoenaed
under Section 23 or 38 of this Act and the investigative file shall be kept for
the confidential use of the Secretary, the Medical Board, the Medical
Coordinators, persons employed by contract to advise the Medical Coordinator or
the Department, the Medical
Board's attorneys, the medical investigative staff, and authorized
clerical staff, as provided in this Act and shall be afforded the same status
as is provided information concerning medical studies in Part 21 of Article
VIII of the Code of Civil Procedure, except that the Department may disclose information and documents to a federal, State, or local law enforcement agency pursuant to a subpoena in an ongoing criminal investigation to a health care licensing body of this State or another state or jurisdiction pursuant to an official request made by that licensing body. Furthermore, information and documents disclosed to a federal, State, or local law enforcement agency may be used by that agency only for the investigation and prosecution of a criminal offense or, in the case of disclosure to a health care licensing body, only for investigations and disciplinary action proceedings with regard to a license issued by that licensing body.
(Source: P.A. 101-13, eff. 6-12-19; 101-316, eff. 8-9-19; 102-20, eff. 1-1-22; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21.)
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