99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB1496
 
Introduced , by Rep. Michael P. McAuliffe
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:



225 ILCS 25/9 from Ch. 111, par. 2309

 Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. In provisions requiring applicants for a dental license who did not graduate from a dental school in the United States or Canada to complete 2 years of general dental clinical training in the United States or Canada prior to licensure, removes provisions allowing the applicant to substitute other forms of training and requiring the applicant to have received specified certification from a dean of an approved college or school in the United States or Canada or a program director of an advanced dental education program. 



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A BILL FOR
 


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1 AN ACT concerning regulation.


2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,

3represented in the General Assembly:



4 Section 5. The Illinois Dental Practice Act is amended by 
5changing Section 9 as follows:

6 (225 ILCS 25/9) (from Ch. 111, par. 2309)
7 (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016)
8 Sec. 9. Qualifications of Applicants for Dental Licenses. 
9The
Department shall require that each applicant for a license 
10to
practice dentistry shall:
11  (a) (Blank).
12  (b) Be at least 21 years of age and of good moral 
13 character.
14  (c) (1) Present satisfactory evidence of completion of 
15 dental
education by graduation from a dental college or 
16 school in the United
States or Canada approved by the 
17 Department. The Department shall not approve
any dental 
18 college or school which does not require at least (A) 60 
19 semester
hours of collegiate credit or the equivalent in 
20 acceptable subjects from a
college or university before 
21 admission, and (B) completion of at least 4
academic years 
22 of instruction or the equivalent in an approved dental 
23 college
or school that is accredited by the Commission on 
 
 
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1 Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association; 
2 or
3  (2) Present satisfactory evidence of completion of 
4 dental education by
graduation from a dental college or 
5 school outside the United States or
Canada and provide 
6 satisfactory evidence that: (A) (blank); (B) the applicant 
7 has completed a minimum of 2 academic years of general

8 dental clinical training at a dental college or school in 
9 the United States or
Canada approved by the Department. , 
10 however, an accredited advanced dental education program 
11 approved by the Department of no less than 2 years may be 
12 substituted for the 2 academic years of general dental 
13 clinical training and an applicant who was enrolled
for not 
14 less than one year in an approved clinical program prior to 
15 January 1,
1993 at an Illinois dental college or school 
16 shall be required to complete only
that program; and
17   (C) the applicant has received certification from 
18 the dean of an
approved dental college or school in the 
19 United States or Canada or the program director of an 
20 approved advanced dental education program stating 
21 that
the applicant has achieved the same level of 
22 scientific knowledge and clinical
competence as 
23 required of all graduates of the college, school, or 
24 advanced dental education program.
25  Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent 
26 either the Department or
any dental college or school from 
 
 
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1 establishing higher standards than
specified in this Act.
2  (d) (Blank).
3  (e) Present satisfactory evidence that the applicant 
4 has passed both parts of the National Board Dental 
5 Examination administered by the Joint Commission on 
6 National Dental Examinations and has successfully 
7 completed an examination conducted by one of the following 
8 regional testing services: the Central Regional Dental 
9 Testing Service, Inc. (CRDTS), the Southern Regional 
10 Testing Agency, Inc. (SRTA), the Western Regional 
11 Examining Board (WREB), the North East Regional Board 
12 (NERB), or the Council of Interstate Testing Agencies 
13 (CITA). For purposes of this Section, successful 
14 completion shall mean that the applicant has achieved a 
15 minimum passing score as determined by the applicable 
16 regional testing service. The Secretary may suspend a 
17 regional testing service under this subsection (e) if, 
18 after proper notice and hearing, it is established that (i) 
19 the integrity of the examination has been breached so as to 
20 make future test results unreliable or (ii) the test is 
21 fundamentally deficient in testing clinical competency. 
22 In determining professional capacity under this Section, 
23any
individual who has not been actively engaged in the 
24practice of dentistry,
has not been a dental student, or has 
25not been engaged in a formal program
of dental education during 
26the 5 years immediately preceding the filing of an
application 
 
 
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1may be required to complete such additional testing, training, 
2or
remedial education as the Board may deem necessary in order 
3to establish
the applicant's present capacity to practice 
4dentistry with reasonable
judgment, skill, and safety.
5(Source: P.A. 96-14, eff. 6-19-09; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 
696-1222, eff. 7-23-10; 97-526, eff. 1-1-12; 97-1013, eff. 
78-17-12.)