Bill Text: IL HB5532 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Practice Act. Makes changes in provisions concerning the educational requirements for licensure as a speech-language pathology assistant. Effective January 1, 2025.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-19 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5532 Detail]

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5532 Introduced , by Rep. Travis Weaver SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 110/8.5
Amends the Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Practice Act. Makes changes in provisions concerning the educational requirements for licensure as a speech-language pathology assistant. Effective January 1, 2025.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and
Audiology Practice Act is amended by changing Section 8.5 as
follows:
(225 ILCS 110/8.5)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
Sec. 8.5. Qualifications for licenses as a speech-language
pathology assistant. A person is qualified to be licensed as a
speech-language pathology assistant if that person has applied
in writing or electronically on forms prescribed by the
Department, has paid the required fees, and meets both of the
following criteria:
(1) Is of good moral character. In determining moral
character, the Department may take into consideration any
felony conviction or plea of guilty or nolo contendere of
the applicant, but such a conviction or plea shall not
operate automatically as a complete bar to licensure.
(2) Has received either (i) an associate degree from a
speech-language pathology assistant program that has been
approved by the Department and that meets the minimum
requirements set forth in Section 8.6; , (ii) a bachelor's

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degree and has completed course work from an accredited
college or university that meets the minimum requirements
set forth in Section 8.6; , or (iii) a bachelor's degree in
speech-language pathology or communication sciences and
disorders from a regionally or nationally accredited
institution approved by the Department that meets the
minimum requirements set forth in paragraph (2) of
subsection (a) in Section 8.6, and evidence of completion
of at least 100 hours of documented field work supervised
by a nationally certified and licensed speech-language
pathologist that is comparable to field work that
completed in a speech-language pathology assistant program
in this State, and completion of requirements for national
certification as a speech-language pathology assistant.
(Source: P.A. 103-302, eff. 1-1-24.)