Public Act 095-0022
 
HB0182 Enrolled LRB095 03971 NHT 24004 b

    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 and Southern Illinois University shall expand their
focuses on enrolling, training, and graduating forensic mental
health professionals by each creating a forensic psychiatry
fellowship training program at their Colleges 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
and Southern Illinois University shall each have all of the
following powers and duties:
        (1) The university'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 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. However, the majority of the clinical
    rotations of the fellows must be served in publicly
    supported programs in this State.
        (3) The university 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 public sector 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. The implementation of this Act is
subject to appropriation. In a given fiscal year, 75% of the
total amount appropriated for the purposes of this Act must be
designated for the University of Illinois at Chicago and 25% of
the total amount appropriated for the purposes of this Act must
be designated for Southern Illinois University. From the
appropriation for the purposes of this Act, the University of
Illinois at Chicago and Southern Illinois University shall
negotiate, with agencies providing supervision for forensic
psychiatric fellows, the reimbursement of the marginal costs
associated with that supervision, unless the University of
Illinois at Chicago or Southern Illinois University is
providing the supervision. Agencies providing supervision to
more than one forensic psychiatric fellow may aggregate these
marginal costs.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.