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          225 ILCS 46/20
      Amends the Health Care Worker Background Check Act by  making
      a technical change.
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  Medical  Practice Act of 1987 by
 2    adding Section 9.7.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.   The Medical Practice Act of 1987 is amended
 6    by adding Section 9.7 and changing Section 19 as follows:
 7        (225 ILCS 60/9.7 new)
 8        Sec. 9.7.  Criminal background  check.    The  Department
 9    shall  require an applicant for a license under Section 19 of
10    this  Act  to  undergo  a  criminal  background  check.   The
11    Department shall adopt rules to implement this Section.
12        (225 ILCS 60/19) (from Ch. 111, par. 4400-19)
13        Sec. 19.  Licensure without examination.  The  Department
14    may,  in  its discretion, issue a license without examination
15    to any person who is currently licensed to practice  medicine
16    in all of its branches, or to practice the treatment of human
17    ailments  without  the  use of drugs or operative surgery, in
18    any other state, territory, country  or  province,  upon  the
19    following conditions:
20             (A)  (Blank);
21             (B)  That  the applicant is of good moral character.
22        In determining moral character under  this  Section,  the
23        Department   may  take  into  consideration  whether  the
24        applicant has engaged  in  conduct  or  activities  which
25        would  constitute  grounds for discipline under this Act.
26        The Department may also request the applicant to  submit,
27        and   may   consider  as  evidence  of  moral  character,
28        endorsements from 2 or 3 individuals licensed under  this
29        Act;
30             (C)  That  the applicant is physically, mentally and
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 1        professionally  capable  of  practicing   medicine   with
 2        reasonable  judgment,  skill  and safety.  In determining
 3        physical, mental and  professional  capacity  under  this
 4        Section  the  Medical Licensing Board may, upon a showing
 5        of a possible incapacity, compel an applicant  to  submit
 6        to  a  mental  or  physical examination, or both, and may
 7        condition or restrict any license, subject  to  the  same
 8        terms  and  conditions  as  are  provided for the Medical
 9        Disciplinary Board under Section  22  of  this  Act.  The
10        Medical  Licensing  Board or the Department may order the
11        examining physician to present testimony concerning  this
12        mental  or  physical  examination  of  the applicant.  No
13        information shall be excluded by reason of any common law
14        or statutory privilege relating to communications between
15        the applicant and the examining physician.  Any condition
16        of  restricted  license  shall  provide  that  the  Chief
17        Medical Coordinator or Deputy Medical  Coordinator  shall
18        have  the  authority  to  review  the subject physician's
19        compliance  with   such   conditions   or   restrictions,
20        including,  where  appropriate, the physician's record of
21        treatment and counseling regarding the impairment, to the
22        extent  permitted  by  applicable  federal  statutes  and
23        regulations safeguarding the confidentiality  of  medical
24        records of patients.
25             (D)  That   if   the  applicant  seeks  to  practice
26        medicine in all of its branches:
27                  (1)  if the applicant was licensed  in  another
28             jurisdiction  prior  to  January  1,  1988, that the
29             applicant has satisfied the educational requirements
30             of paragraph (1) of subsection (A) or paragraph  (2)
31             of subsection (A) of Section 11 of this Act; or
32                  (2)  if  the  applicant was licensed in another
33             jurisdiction  after  December  31,  1987,  that  the
34             applicant has satisfied the educational requirements
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 1             of paragraph (A)(2) of Section 11 of this Act; and
 2                  (3)  the requirements for a license to practice
 3             medicine in all of its branches  in  the  particular
 4             state,  territory,  country or province in which the
 5             applicant is licensed are deemed by  the  Department
 6             to   have   been  substantially  equivalent  to  the
 7             requirements for a license to practice  medicine  in
 8             all  of  its  branches in force in this State at the
 9             date of the applicant's license;
10             (E)  That if the  applicant  seeks  to  treat  human
11        ailments  without  the use of drugs and without operative
12        surgery:
13                  (1)  the  applicant  is   a   graduate   of   a
14             chiropractic  school  or  college  approved  by  the
15             Department at the time of their graduation;
16                  (2)  the   requirements   for  the  applicant's
17             license to practice the treatment of human  ailments
18             without   the   use  of  drugs  are  deemed  by  the
19             Department to have been substantially equivalent  to
20             the  requirements  for a license to practice in this
21             State at the date of the applicant's license;
22             (F)  That the Department  may,  in  its  discretion,
23        issue  a license, without examination, to any graduate of
24        a medical or osteopathic college, reputable and  in  good
25        standing  in  the  judgment  of  the  Department, who has
26        passed an examination for admission to the United  States
27        Public  Health  Service,  or  who  has  passed  any other
28        examination deemed by the  Department  to  have  been  at
29        least   equal   in   all   substantial  respects  to  the
30        examination required for admission to  any  such  medical
31        corps;
32             (G)  That    applications   for   licenses   without
33        examination shall be filed  with  the  Department,  under
34        oath,  on forms prepared and furnished by the Department,
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 1        and shall set forth, and applicants therefor shall supply
 2        such  information   respecting   the   life,   education,
 3        professional  practice, and moral character of applicants
 4        as the Department may require to be filed for its use;.
 5             (H)  That  the  applicant   undergo   the   criminal
 6        background  check  established  under Section 9.7 of this
 7        Act.
 8        In the exercise of its discretion under this Section, the
 9    Department  is  empowered  to  consider  and  evaluate   each
10    applicant  on an individual basis.  It may take into account,
11    among other things, the extent to which there is  or  is  not
12    available   to   the  Department,  authentic  and  definitive
13    information concerning the quality of medical  education  and
14    clinical  training  which  the  applicant  has had.  Under no
15    circumstances shall a license be issued under the  provisions
16    of  this  Section  to any person who has previously taken and
17    failed the written examination conducted  by  the  Department
18    for  such  license.   In  determining  moral  character,  the
19    Department  may take into consideration whether the applicant
20    has engaged in conduct or activities which  would  constitute
21    grounds  for  discipline  under this Act.  The Department may
22    also request the applicant to submit,  and  may  consider  as
23    evidence of moral character, evidence from 2 or 3 individuals
24    licensed  under  this  Act.  Applicants have 3 years from the
25    date of application to complete the application process.   If
26    the  process  has  not  been  completed  within  3 years, the
27    application shall be denied, the fees shall be forfeited, and
28    the applicant must  reapply  and  meet  the  requirements  in
29    effect at the time of reapplication.
30    (Source: P.A. 89-702, eff. 7-1-97.)

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