103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3467 Introduced 2/8/2024, by Sen. Ram Villivalam 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. LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3467 Introduced 2/8/2024, by Sen. Ram Villivalam SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 225 ILCS 110/8.5 225 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. LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3467 Introduced 2/8/2024, by Sen. Ram Villivalam SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 225 ILCS 110/8.5 225 ILCS 110/8.5 225 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. LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b A BILL FOR SB3467LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b SB3467 LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b SB3467 LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b 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 Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and 5 Audiology Practice Act is amended by changing Section 8.5 as 6 follows: 7 (225 ILCS 110/8.5) 8 (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028) 9 Sec. 8.5. Qualifications for licenses as a speech-language 10 pathology assistant. A person is qualified to be licensed as a 11 speech-language pathology assistant if that person has applied 12 in writing or electronically on forms prescribed by the 13 Department, has paid the required fees, and meets both of the 14 following criteria: 15 (1) Is of good moral character. In determining moral 16 character, the Department may take into consideration any 17 felony conviction or plea of guilty or nolo contendere of 18 the applicant, but such a conviction or plea shall not 19 operate automatically as a complete bar to licensure. 20 (2) Has received either (i) an associate degree from a 21 speech-language pathology assistant program that has been 22 approved by the Department and that meets the minimum 23 requirements set forth in Section 8.6; , (ii) a bachelor's 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3467 Introduced 2/8/2024, by Sen. Ram Villivalam SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 225 ILCS 110/8.5 225 ILCS 110/8.5 225 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. LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b A BILL FOR 225 ILCS 110/8.5 LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b SB3467 LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b SB3467- 2 -LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b SB3467 - 2 - LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b SB3467 - 2 - LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b 1 degree and has completed course work from an accredited 2 college or university that meets the minimum requirements 3 set forth in Section 8.6; , or (iii) a bachelor's degree in 4 speech-language pathology or communication sciences and 5 disorders from a regionally or nationally accredited 6 institution approved by the Department that meets the 7 minimum requirements set forth in paragraph (2) of 8 subsection (a) in Section 8.6, and evidence of completion 9 of at least 100 hours of documented field work supervised 10 by a nationally certified and licensed speech-language 11 pathologist that is comparable to field work that 12 completed in a speech-language pathology assistant program 13 in this State, and completion of requirements for national 14 certification as a speech-language pathology assistant. 15 (Source: P.A. 103-302, eff. 1-1-24.) SB3467 - 2 - LRB103 37460 RTM 67582 b