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1 AN ACT concerning regulation.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Department of Professional Regulation Law
5 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
6 adding Section 2105-379 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 2105/2105-379 new)
8 Sec. 2105-379. Continuing education; prohibited services.
9 (a) As used in this Section, "prohibited services,
10 treatments, practices, or procedures" means the services,
11 treatments, practices, or procedures that are expressly
12 prohibited by law or by rule in this State at the time a
13 continuing education activity is completed.
14 (b) A licensee shall not receive continuing education
15 credit toward the renewal of a professional license for any
16 continuing education course, program, seminar, instruction,
17 webinar, or other educational activity that promotes,
18 instructs, or provides guidance on the performance of
19 prohibited services, treatments, practices, or procedures.
20 (c) Approval by the Department of a continuing education
21 provider or continuing education course does not supersede the
22 provisions of this Section.
23 (d) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to require
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1 the Department to proactively review, pre-approve, evaluate,
2 monitor, or otherwise assess continuing education content
3 restrictions under this Section.
4 (e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit
5 a licensee from receiving continuing education credit toward
6 renewal of a professional license for any continuing education
7 course, program, seminar, instruction, webinar, or other
8 educational activity that instructs or provides guidance on
9 recognizing, identifying, reporting, or responding to criminal
10 conduct or victimization as it affects clients or third
11 parties, provided that such educational activity does not
12 itself promote, instruct, or provide guidance on the
13 performance of prohibited services, treatments, practices, or
14 procedures.
15 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on
16 January 1, 2027.Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record.