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90_SB0316

      225 ILCS 46/25
          Amends the  Health  Care  Worker  Background  Check  Act.
      Makes  a  technical  change in the Section concerning persons
      ineligible to be hired by health care employers.
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                                               LRB9002416LDdv
 1        AN ACT to amend the Health Care Worker  Background  Check
 2    Act by changing Section 25.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Health Care Worker Background  Check  Act
 6    is amended by changing Section 25 as follows:
 7        (225 ILCS 46/25)
 8        Sec.  25.   Persons ineligible to be hired by health care
 9    employers.  After January 1, 1996, or  January  1,  1997,  as
10    applicable,  no  health  care  employer shall knowingly hire,
11    employ, or retain an any individual in a position with duties
12    involving direct care for clients,  patients,  or  residents,
13    who  has been convicted of committing or attempting to commit
14    one or more of the offenses defined in Sections  9-1,  9-1.2,
15    9-2,  9-2.1,  9-3,  9-3.1,  9-3.2,  9-3.3,  10-1, 10-2, 10-3,
16    10-3.1, 10-4, 10-5, 10-7, 12-1, 12-2, 12-3,  12-3.1,  12-3.2,
17    12-4,  12-4.2,  12-4.3, 12-4.4, 12-4.6, 12-4.7, 12-13, 12-14,
18    12-14.1, 12-15, 12-16, 12-19,  12-21,  16-1,  16-1.3,  16A-3,
19    18-1,  18-2,  19-1, 19-3, 19-4, 20-1, 20-1.1, 24-1, or 24-1.2
20    of the Criminal Code of 1961; those  defined  in  Section  5,
21    5.1,  or  9  of the Cannabis Control Act; or those defined in
22    Sections 401, 401.1, 404, 405, 405.1, 407, or  407.1  of  the
23    Illinois  Controlled  Substances Act, unless the applicant or
24    employee obtains a waiver pursuant to Section 40.
25    (Source: P.A. 89-197, eff. 7-21-95;  89-428,  eff.  12-13-95;
26    89-462, eff. 5-29-96.)

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