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2021 Legislation
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What does it all mean?
Our Q & A will attempt to address some of the bills.
I am not an attorney and some bills are confusing.
Our opinions represent our best description of these new laws.
When we learn more we will add it.
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Resolution
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Resolution to President and Congress to allow LPCs and LSWs to bill Medicare / Medicaid
Q & A- No clue why this was proposed. Just symbolic.
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HR 0067
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stalled
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Telehealth Insurance Coverage
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Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions concerning coverage for telehealth services, provides that if an individual or group policy of accident or health insurance provides coverage for telehealth services, reimbursement for services provided through telehealth services shall be equivalent to reimbursement for the same services provided through in-person consultation.
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HB 707 |
referred to rules
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Prior Authorization Reform Act.
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Creates the Prior Authorization Reform Act. Provides requirements concerning disclosure and review of prior authorization requirements, denial of claims or coverage by a utilization review organization, and the implementation of prior authorization requirements or restrictions.
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HB 711
House Amendment 2
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Sent to Gov 6/23/21 |
Behavior Analyst Licensing Act.
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Creates the Behavior Analyst Licensing Act. Provides for licensure of behavior analysts and assistant behavior analysts.
Q & A: We opposed this. It created a new license, allowing Bachelor level therapists.
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HB 1824 |
No longer active
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| Telehealth |
Several parts concerning telehealth services
Q & A: Replaced with HB3308 Telehealth Bill |
HB3498
HB3308 Senate Amendment 001 is the bill
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No longer active
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Telehealth in facilities
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Reimburse physicians, community mental health centers, and substance abuse centers that provide primary care and behavioral health services to medical assistance recipients via telehealth, including medical evaluations for individuals residing in facilities licensed under the ID/DD Community Care Act and in community-integrated living arrangements. |
HB 2591
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No longer active |
Insurance Code
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Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that every insurer provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental, emotional, nervous, or substance use disorders or conditions.
Q & A: Guarantees mental health coverage for medically necessary services. Effective after insurer amends, renews, delivers, issues a policy after it is signed into law.
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HB2595
Senate Amendment 1
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Sent to Gov 6/29/21
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Telehealth
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Amends the Illinois Insurance Code.
Highlights:
- · Allows for Emergency Rulemaking. -
Q & A: No idea why this was written into the law. We have to wait and see.
- · Effective Date: Goes into effect after a policy is amended, renewed, issued.
- Does not require in-person contact before telehealth services are provided.
- No requirement to document a client hardship to provide telehealth services.
- Deductibles, co-pays the same as in person.
- Same reimbursement rate that would apply to the services if the services had been delivered via an in-person by an in-network provide. Parity in rates.
- A provider can voluntarily negotiate alternate reimbursement rates, Q & A- Why alternate rates would be negotiated we don't understand. When we know more we will add that info.
- Telephone communication is OK. Texting or faxing counseling sessions is NOT OK.
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Senate Amendment 1
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Sent to Gov 6/29/21
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IDFPR suoervision for LCPC license remote
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Remote clinical supervision- applicants for licensure as Clinical Professional Counselors may complete their live face-to-face supervision and education remotely, using real-time video as appropriate, rather than on-site. This waiver extends to May 31, 2021.
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Rule change temporary
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Expires
May 31, 2021
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Police Training Crisis Intervention
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Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Curriculum for certified training programs in crisis intervention shall be at least 40 hours for recruit law enforcement officers. Provides that Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training programs shall be a collaboration between law enforcement professionals, mental health providers and others.
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HB28 |
referred Rules
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Trauma Response Fund
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Creates the Trauma Response Fund. Requires school boards to develop a trauma response protocol that shall be implemented in response to a traumatic event at a school, including, but not limited to, a shooting at the school. Sets forth various requirements for the protocol, including response by hospitals, trauma intervention services, and community engagement.
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HB238 |
referred Rules
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School District Notification
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Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Requires a school district to provide notification to the parent or guardian of a student with an individualized education program (IEP) a Dept of Human Services booklet
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HB290
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Sent to Gov 6/23/21
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School Counselor Ratio
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Provides that a school district shall employ a ratio of no less than one counselor to 150 students (rather than allowing a school district to employ a ratio of no less than one counselor to 250 students).
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HB553
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referred to Rules
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Suicide Prevention ID Notice
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Requires school districts to provide contact information for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and for the Crisis Text Line on the back of each student identification card issued by the school district. If the school district does not issue student identification cards to its students or to all its students, the school district must publish this on its website.
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HB597 |
Sent to Gov 6/25/21 |
School Counselor name change
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Replace the terms "school guidance counselor" and "guidance counselor" with the term "school counselor" in numerous Acts.
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HB1719
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Sent to Gov 6/25/21 |
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Marriage/Divorce release of information
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Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Provides that court-ordered counseling is subject to the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act and the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. |
SB 257
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Passed Senate Unanimous
In House
Passed Insurance Committee unanimous
dead
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Timely Access
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Timely and proximate access to treatment for mental, emotional, nervous, or substance use disorders or conditions. Provides that network adequacy standards for timely and proximate access to treatment for mental, emotional, nervous, or substance use disorders or conditions must satisfy specified minimum requirements.
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SB471
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Sent to Gov 6/24/21 |
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Insurance Mental Health
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SB 697
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Senate assignments
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Sexual Harassment training
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Eliminates CE requirement for Sexual Harassment training but keeps training requirement. |
SB1079
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Sent to Gov 6/24/21 |
Insurance recoupment (claw back)
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Concerning recoupment by an insurer, health maintenance organization, independent practice association, or physician hospital organization, provides that no recoupment or offset may be requested or withheld from future payments 12 months or more after the original payment is made. Removes language that provides that an insurer, health maintenance organization, independent practice association, or physician hospital organization may not attempt a recoupment or offset until all appeal rights are exhausted. |
SB1974
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Sent to Gov 6/28/21 |
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Psychologists prescribing for children
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SB2272
OPPOSE
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Passed committee 2nd reading House
Referred to Assignments
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Music Therapy
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Creates the Music Therapy Licensing and Practice Act.
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SB 2243
OPPOSE
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Referred to Assignments |
Medicaid billing for LCPC
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Omnibus Medicaid bill-
Adds LCPCs and LMFTs to bill for medicaid eligible clients
Dispersion Maps of Illinois Licensed Mental Health Professionals.
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SB2294 |
Signed into law 7/6/21
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0043 |
Counselor in Training
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Provides for the designation of counselors in training
Allows specific recent graduates to get licensed for 1 year pending LPC application
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SB 2308
OPPOSE
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Re-referred to Assignments |
Bach level Counselors
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Allows bachelor level to provide counseling services replacing licensed LPC/LCPC, LSW, LCSW
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SB 2314
OPPOSE
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Passed House Committee 2nd Reading House
Deadline extended to 5/21/21
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IDFPR Rule Changes
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IDFPR CEs Online
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This replaces the previous temporary rule on online CEs.
CE credits may be earned for successful completion of a course (e.g., by mail, computer, pre-recorded online course/program, live online course/program, etc.) that is offered by an approved sponsor who meets the requirements set forth in subsection (c). Each course shall include an examination.
This rule change permanently allows all 30 CEs in a renewal period to be “not in person.” Effective Jan 28, 2021
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2020 Legislation
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Additional Police Officer Training in Crisis Management
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HB3563
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FAILED
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Graduation requirements changed
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Numerous changes to the school code with new graduation requirements
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HB2170
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Health Care
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Bill aimed at improving health outcomes for Black residents
by reforming the State’s health and human service system.
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HB 5548 and HB3840
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Insurance recoupment
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Changes time limit fro 18 months to 6 months
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SB2771
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FAILED
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| Mental Health Income Tax Checkoff Fund |
Creates an income tax checkoff for the Mental Health Income Tax Checkoff Fund. Provides that moneys in the Fund may be used by the Department of Public Health for the purpose of making grants to providers of mental health services in the State. Effective immediately. |
HB0184 |
FAILED |
Mental Health Instruction
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Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act to require the instruction on mental health and illness to evaluate the multiple dimensions of health by reviewing the relationship between physical and mental health so as to enhance student understanding, attitudes, and behaviors that promote health, well-being, and human dignity.
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HB0205
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FAILED
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Health Care for All
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Creates the Health Care for All Illinois Act that provides that all individuals residing in this State are covered under the Illinois Health Services Program for health insurance.
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HB0207
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FAILED
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Cannabis Instruction
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Provides that beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, in every public school maintaining any of grades kindergarten through 12, there shall be instruction, study, and discussion on the side effects of cannabis when the use of cannabis is not authorized by the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act.
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HB0208
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Requires Teaching LGBTQ History
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Provides that textbooks purchased with grant funds must be non-discriminatory. Provides that in public schools only, the teaching of history of the United States shall include a study of the roles and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the history of this country and this State. Effective July 1, 2020.
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HB0246 |
Signed into L:aw. Effective 7/1/20
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| Health Insurer Claims Assessment Act |
Imposes an assessment of 1% on claims paid by a health insurance carrier or third-party administrator. Provides that the moneys received and collected under the Act shall be used solely for the purpose of funding Medicaid services. |
HB0272
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FAILED
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Online Mental Health Database
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Maintain an online database and resource page on its website. Provides that the page shall contain mental health resources specifically geared towards school counselors, parents, and teachers with the goal of connecting those people with mental health resources related to bullying and school shootings and encouraging information sharing among educational administrators, school security personnel, and school resource officers.
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HB907 |
Signed into Law. Effective 7/12/19
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| Higher Education Mental Health Act |
Requires the Board of Higher Education to establish the Advisory Commission on Serving and Supporting Students with Mental Health Disabilities in Institutions of Higher Education |
HB0908
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FAILED |
| Mental Health Online Resource Database |
Directs the Department of Public Health to create and maintain an online database and resource page on its website containing mental health resources specifically geared towards school counselors, parents, and teachers with the goal of connecting those people with mental health resources related to bullying and school shootings and encouraging information sharing. |
HB0907 |
Signed into law Effective 7/12/19 |
Threat Assessment
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Requires all school boards of school districts to develop threat assessment protocols and to create threat assessment teams. Provides that a school board shall create the threat assessment team within 30 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act and adopt an initial threat assessment protocol within 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Provides that a school district may share information concerning a clear and present danger with another school district |
HB1561
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Sent to the Gov
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Sessions for Adults under Guardianship
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Until the consent of the adult's guardian has been obtained, counseling or psychotherapy provided to an adult under guardianship shall be limited to not more than 12 (rather than 5) sessions, a session lasting not more than 60 (rather than 45) minutes. |
HB2142
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Signed into Law. Effective 7/12/19
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Parent present when School Police question student
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Provides that a student may not be questioned or detained at a school site at which students are detained in connection with criminal charges or allegations, taken into custody, or engaged with law enforcement personnel without the presence of the student's parent or guardian, a school social worker, or a licensed mental health professional.
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HB2627
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Signed into law Effective 8/23/19
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Requires for HS graduation completion of the FAFSA or a waiver
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Requires as a graduation requirment completion of the FAFSA or sign a waiver that they understand and are not competing it.
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HB2719
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Signed into law. Effective 6/1/20
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Requires all post-secondary education options be discussed.
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In assisting all students with a college or post-secondary education plan, a school counselor must include a discussion on all post-secondary education options, including 4-year colleges or universities, community colleges, and vocational schools.
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HB3652 |
Signed into law. Effective 8/9/19
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Suicide Prevention Office
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Creates the Office of Suicide Prevention within the Department of Public Health
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SB1425
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Signed into law. Effective 8/9/19
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Mental Health First Aid Training for School Personnel
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Allows use of the Illinois Mental Health First Aid Training to satisfy training requirement.
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SB1731
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Signed into law. Effective 8/9/19
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Eliminates required Basic Skills Test for educators
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Eliminates the requirement to pass the basic skills test for educators.
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SB1952 |
Signed into law. Effective 8/7/19
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