Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB2280 Compare Versions

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1	1	103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2280 Introduced , by Rep. Dagmara Avelar SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 20 ILCS 2105/2105-15.8 new Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires health care professionals who have continuing education requirements to complete cultural competency training, which shall include information on sensitivity relating to and best practices for providing affirming care to people in the person's preferred language, people with disabilities, documented or undocumented immigrants, people who are intersex, people living with HIV, and people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. Provides that for every license or registration renewal occurring on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a health care professional who has continuing education requirements must complete at least 5 hours in cultural competency training. Provides that for every license or registration renewal occurring on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a person licensed or registered by the Department under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 and who has continuing education requirements must complete at least 10 hours in cultural competency training. Provides that these continuing education hours may count toward meeting the minimum credit hours required for continuing education. Provides for rulemaking. Effective January 1, 2024. LRB103 25652 AMQ 52001 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2280 Introduced , by Rep. Dagmara Avelar SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 20 ILCS 2105/2105-15.8 new 20 ILCS 2105/2105-15.8 new Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires health care professionals who have continuing education requirements to complete cultural competency training, which shall include information on sensitivity relating to and best practices for providing affirming care to people in the person's preferred language, people with disabilities, documented or undocumented immigrants, people who are intersex, people living with HIV, and people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. Provides that for every license or registration renewal occurring on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a health care professional who has continuing education requirements must complete at least 5 hours in cultural competency training. Provides that for every license or registration renewal occurring on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a person licensed or registered by the Department under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 and who has continuing education requirements must complete at least 10 hours in cultural competency training. Provides that these continuing education hours may count toward meeting the minimum credit hours required for continuing education. Provides for rulemaking. Effective January 1, 2024. LRB103 25652 AMQ 52001 b LRB103 25652 AMQ 52001 b A BILL FOR
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5	5	Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires health care professionals who have continuing education requirements to complete cultural competency training, which shall include information on sensitivity relating to and best practices for providing affirming care to people in the person's preferred language, people with disabilities, documented or undocumented immigrants, people who are intersex, people living with HIV, and people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. Provides that for every license or registration renewal occurring on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a health care professional who has continuing education requirements must complete at least 5 hours in cultural competency training. Provides that for every license or registration renewal occurring on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a person licensed or registered by the Department under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 and who has continuing education requirements must complete at least 10 hours in cultural competency training. Provides that these continuing education hours may count toward meeting the minimum credit hours required for continuing education. Provides for rulemaking. Effective January 1, 2024.
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11	11	1 AN ACT concerning State government.
12	12	2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
13	13	3 represented in the General Assembly:
14	14	4 Section 5. The Department of Professional Regulation Law
15	15	5 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
16	16	6 adding Section 2105-15.8 as follows:
17	17	7 (20 ILCS 2105/2105-15.8 new)
18	18	8 Sec. 2105-15.8. Continuing education; health care cultural
19	19	9 competency.
20	20	10 (a) The General Assembly finds and declares the following:
21	21	11 (1) Health and equity and equitable access to
22	22	12 affirming health care are essential values of the State.
23	23	13 However, despite patient demographics in the State
24	24	14 changing rapidly since 2000, the State still does not have
25	25	15 a formal requirement for health care professionals to stay
26	26	16 abreast of the trends needed to meet the social and
27	27	17 cultural needs of an evolving patient base. This lack of
28	28	18 updated social and cultural knowledge by health care
29	29	19 professionals impacts communities of color, people with
30	30	20 disabilities, immigrants with or without status, people
31	31	21 who are intersex, people living with HIV, and LGBTQ+
32	32	22 people, among other populations.
33	33	23 (2) According to a citation in "I Am Not The Doctor For
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40	40	Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires health care professionals who have continuing education requirements to complete cultural competency training, which shall include information on sensitivity relating to and best practices for providing affirming care to people in the person's preferred language, people with disabilities, documented or undocumented immigrants, people who are intersex, people living with HIV, and people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. Provides that for every license or registration renewal occurring on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a health care professional who has continuing education requirements must complete at least 5 hours in cultural competency training. Provides that for every license or registration renewal occurring on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a person licensed or registered by the Department under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 and who has continuing education requirements must complete at least 10 hours in cultural competency training. Provides that these continuing education hours may count toward meeting the minimum credit hours required for continuing education. Provides for rulemaking. Effective January 1, 2024.
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68	68	1 You: Physicians' Attitudes About Caring for People With
69	69	2 Disabilities" in the October 2022 edition of Health
70	70	3 Affairs, regarding care for people with disabilities, only
71	71	4 41% of physicians reported that they were very confident
72	72	5 about their ability to provide the same quality of care to
73	73	6 people with disabilities as those without, and just 57% of
74	74	7 physicians strongly agreed that they welcomed people with
75	75	8 disabilities into their practices.
76	76	9 (3) According to the Center for American Progress,
77	77	10 about half of transgender people in the United States have
78	78	11 been mistreated by a health care professional. Per the
79	79	12 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey data for the State, 33% of
80	80	13 those who saw a health care provider in the past year
81	81	14 reported having at least one negative experience related
82	82	15 to being transgender, and 24% of respondents did not see a
83	83	16 doctor when they needed to because of fear of being
84	84	17 mistreated as a transgender person.
85	85	18 (4) According to a survey by Healthgrades in 2022, 25%
86	86	19 of patients said their doctors could benefit from more
87	87	20 training. The number jumps to 29% among non-white patients
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89	89	22 (5) Many providers recognize the importance of
90	90	23 cultural competency for their personal education.
91	91	24 According to the Healthgrades survey, 31% of physicians
92	92	25 agree that their level of cultural competency can impact
93	93	26 their ability to provide optimal patient care somewhat or
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104	104	1 a lot. Furthermore, the generational divide among
105	105	2 physicians is strong on additional training that would
106	106	3 better equip them to care for patients of different
107	107	4 gender, racial, sexual, or cultural identities. Two in 5
108	108	5 younger physicians with less than 10 years of training are
109	109	6 interested in additional training. Only one in 5 of older
110	110	7 physicians with more than 20 years of practice express
111	111	8 interest in cultural competency training.
112	112	9 (6) In 2019, the American Medical Association adopted
113	113	10 a policy that included recognition of the importance of
114	114	11 cultural competency to patient experience and treatment
115	115	12 plan adherence and encouraged the implementation of
116	116	13 cultural competency practices across health care settings.
117	117	14 (7) Furthermore, many thousands of health care
118	118	15 professionals in the State, including tens of thousands of
119	119	16 physicians and nurses, are already required to comply with
120	120	17 the cultural competency requirements in the State's
121	121	18 contract with managed care organizations, which states
122	122	19 that contractors shall implement a cultural competence
123	123	20 plan, and covered services shall be provided in a
124	124	21 culturally competent manner by ensuring the cultural
125	125	22 competence of all contractor staff, including clerical to
126	126	23 executive management, and providers.
127	127	24 (8) As a next step to ensuring all health care
128	128	25 professionals are trained and equipped in cultural
129	129	26 competency, the State should join jurisdictions like
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140	140	1 Connecticut, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia to
141	141	2 require that health care professionals be trained in
142	142	3 cultural competency as part of continuing education.
143	143	4 Having such a requirement will increase the ability of
144	144	5 medical providers to meet the social and cultural needs of
145	145	6 their diversifying patient base.
146	146	7 (b) As used in this Section:
147	147	8 "Cultural competency" means a set of integrated attitudes,
148	148	9 knowledge, and skills that enables a health care professional
149	149	10 or organization to care effectively for patients from diverse
150	150	11 cultures, groups, and communities. "Cultural competency"
151	151	12 includes, but is not limited to: (i) applying linguistic
152	152	13 skills to communicate effectively with the target population;
153	153	14 (ii) utilizing cultural information to establish therapeutic
154	154	15 relationships; (iii) eliciting and incorporating pertinent
155	155	16 cultural data in diagnosis and treatment; and (iv)
156	156	17 understanding and applying cultural and ethnic data to the
157	157	18 process of clinic care.
158	158	19 "Health care professional" means a person licensed or
159	159	20 registered by the Department of Financial and Professional
160	160	21 Regulation under the Nurse Practice Act, the Clinical
161	161	22 Psychologist Licensing Act, the Illinois Dental Practice Act,
162	162	23 the Pharmacy Practice Act, the Illinois Physical Therapy Act,
163	163	24 the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987, the Acupuncture
164	164	25 Practice Act, the Illinois Athletic Trainers Practice Act, the
165	165	26 Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act, the
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176	176	1 Dietitian Nutritionist Practice Act, the Naprapathic Practice
177	177	2 Act, the Nursing Home Administrators Licensing and
178	178	3 Disciplinary Act, the Illinois Occupational Therapy Practice
179	179	4 Act, the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987, the
180	180	5 Podiatric Medical Practice Act of 1987, the Respiratory Care
181	181	6 Practice Act, the Professional Counselor and Clinical
182	182	7 Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act, the Sex
183	183	8 Offender Evaluation and Treatment Provider Act, the Illinois
184	184	9 Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Practice Act, the
185	185	10 Perfusionist Practice Act, the Genetic Counselor Licensing
186	186	11 Act, the Licensed Certified Professional Midwife Practice Act,
187	187	12 the Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act, the Behavior
188	188	13 Analyst Licensing Act, the Music Therapy Licensing and
189	189	14 Practice Act, the Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing
190	190	15 Act, and the Orthotics, Prosthetics, and Pedorthics Practice
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192	192	17 (c) The cultural competency training required by this
193	193	18 Section shall include information on sensitivity relating to
194	194	19 and best practices for providing affirming care to people in
195	195	20 the person's preferred language, people with disabilities,
196	196	21 documented or undocumented immigrants, people who are
197	197	22 intersex, people living with HIV, and people of diverse sexual
198	198	23 orientations and gender identities, including, but not limited
199	199	24 to, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, pansexual,
200	200	25 asexual, and questioning individuals.
201	201	26 (d) For every license or registration renewal occurring on
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212	212	1 or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd
213	213	2 General Assembly, a health care professional who has
214	214	3 continuing education requirements must complete at least 5
215	215	4 hours in cultural competency training.
216	216	5 (e) For every license or registration renewal occurring on
217	217	6 or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd
218	218	7 General Assembly, a person licensed or registered by the
219	219	8 Department under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 and who has
220	220	9 continuing education requirements must complete at least 10
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222	222	11 (f) The hours required by this Section may count toward
223	223	12 meeting the minimum credit hours required for continuing
224	224	13 education. Any cultural competency training applied to meet
225	225	14 any other State licensure requirement, professional
226	226	15 accreditation or certification requirement, or health care
227	227	16 institutional practice agreement may count toward the
228	228	17 requirements under this Section.
229	229	18 (g) The Department may adopt rules for the implementation
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231	231	20 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
232	232	21 1, 2024.
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