Public Act 103-0155
 
HB2308 EnrolledLRB103 25731 CPF 56182 b


  
    AN ACT concerning safety.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Radiation Protection Act of 1990 is amended  
by changing Section 6 as follows:
 


    (420 ILCS 40/6)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 210-6)



    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)

    Sec. 6. Accreditation of administrators of radiation; 
Limited scope
accreditation; Rules and regulations; Education.
    (a) The Agency shall promulgate such rules and regulations 
as are
necessary to establish accreditation standards and 
procedures, including a
minimum course of education and 
continuing education requirements in the
administration of 
radiation to human beings, which are appropriate to the

classification of accreditation and which are to be met by all 
physician
assistants, advanced practice registered nurses, 
nurses,
technicians, or other assistants who administer 
radiation to human beings
under the supervision of a person 
licensed under the Medical Practice Act
of 1987.  Such rules 
and regulations may provide for different classes of

accreditation based on evidence of national certification, 
clinical
experience or community hardship as conditions of 
initial and continuing
accreditation. The rules and 
regulations of the Agency shall be
consistent with national 
standards in regard to the protection of the
health and safety 
of the general public.

    (b) The rules and regulations shall also provide that

persons who have been accredited by the Agency, in accordance 
with the
Radiation Protection Act, without passing an 
examination, will remain
accredited as provided in Section 43 
of this Act and that those persons may
be accredited, without 
passing an examination, to use other equipment,
procedures, or 
supervision within the original category of accreditation if

the Agency receives written assurances from a person licensed 
under the
Medical Practice Act of 1987, that the person 
accredited has
the necessary
skill and qualifications for such 
additional equipment procedures or
supervision.  The Agency 
shall, in accordance with subsection (c) of
this Section, 
provide for the accreditation of nurses, technicians, or
other 
assistants, unless exempted elsewhere in this Act, to perform 
a
limited scope of diagnostic radiography procedures of the 
chest, the
extremities, skull and sinuses, or the spine, while 
under the
supervision of a person licensed under the Medical 
Practice Act of 1987.

    (c) The rules or regulations promulgated by the Agency 
pursuant to
subsection (a) shall establish standards and 
procedures for accrediting
persons to perform a limited scope 
of diagnostic radiography procedures.
The rules or regulations 
shall specify that an individual seeking accreditation for 
limited diagnostic radiography shall not apply ionizing 
radiation to human beings until the individual has passed an 
Agency-approved examination and is accredited by the Agency. 
The rules or regulations shall require persons seeking limited 
scope
accreditation to register with the Agency as a 
"student-in-training,"
and declare those procedures in which 
the student will be receiving
training.  The 
student-in-training registration shall be valid for a period

of 16 months, during which the time the student may, under the 
supervision
of a person licensed under the Medical Practice 
Act of 1987, perform the
diagnostic radiography procedures 
listed on the student's registration.
The student-in-training 
registration shall be nonrenewable.

    For an individual Upon expiration of the 16 month training 
period, the student shall be
prohibited from performing 
diagnostic radiography procedures unless
accredited by the 
Agency to perform such procedures.  In order to be
accredited 
to perform a limited scope of diagnostic radiography 
procedures, he or she
an individual must pass an examination 
approved offered by the Agency.  The
examination shall be 
consistent with national standards in regard to
protection of 
public health and safety. The examination shall consist of a

standardized component covering general principles applicable 
to diagnostic
radiography procedures and a clinical component 
specific to the types of
procedures for which accreditation is 
being sought.  The Agency may
assess a reasonable fee for such 
examinations to cover any the costs incurred
by the Agency in 
conjunction with offering the examinations.

    (d) The Agency shall by rule or regulation exempt from 
accreditation
physician assistants, advanced practice 
registered nurses, nurses, technicians, or
other assistants 
who
administer radiation to human
beings under supervision of 
a person licensed to practice under the Medical
Practice Act 
of 1987 when the services are performed on employees of a

business at a medical facility owned and operated by the 
business.  Such
exemption shall only apply to the equipment, 
procedures and supervision
specific to the medical facility 
owned and operated by the business.

(Source: P.A. 100-513, eff. 1-1-18.)