Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article -

• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 1
  Short title. This Act may be cited as the Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. (Source: P.A. 93-1041, eff. 9-29-04.)
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 5
  Declaration of public policy. The mapping of the human genome continues to result in the rapid expansion of genetic knowledge and a proliferation of testing...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 10
  Definitions. As used in this Act: "ABGC" means the American Board of Genetic Counseling. "ABMG" means the American Board of Medical Genetics. "Active candidate status"...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 15
  Exemptions. (a) This Act does not prohibit any persons legally regulated in this State by any other Act from engaging in the practice for which...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 20
  Restrictions and limitations. (a) Except as provided in Section 15, no person shall, without a valid license as a genetic counselor issued by the Department...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 25
  Unlicensed practice; violation; civil penalty. (a) Any person who practices, offers to practice, attempts to practice, or holds himself or herself out to practice as...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 30
  Powers and duties of the Department. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Department may: (a) authorize examinations to ascertain the qualifications and fitness...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 40
  Application for original license. Applications for original licenses shall be made to the Department on forms prescribed by the Department and accompanied by the required...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 45
  Social Security Number on license application. In addition to any other information required to be contained in the application, every application for an original license...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 50
  Examination. (a) Applicants for genetic counseling licensure must provide evidence that they have successfully completed the certification examination provided by the ABGC or ABMG, if...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 55
  Qualifications for licensure. A person shall be qualified for licensure as a genetic counselor and the Department may issue a license if that person: (1)...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 60
  Temporary licensure. A temporary license may be issued to an individual who has made application to the Department, has submitted evidence to the Department of...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 65
  Licenses; renewal; restoration; person in military service; inactive status. (a) The expiration date and renewal period for each license issued under this Act shall be...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 70
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 93-1041, eff. 9-29-04. Repealed by P.A. 94-661, eff. 1-1-06.)
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 73
  Inactive status. A person who notifies the Department in writing on forms prescribed by the Department may elect to place his or her license on...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 75
  Fees; deposit of fees. The Department shall, by rule, establish a schedule of fees for the administration and enforcement of this Act. These fees shall...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 80
  Checks or orders dishonored. Any person who issues or delivers a check or other order to the Department that is returned to the Department unpaid...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 85
  Endorsement. The Department may issue a license as a genetic counselor, without administering the required examination, to an applicant licensed under the laws of another...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 90
  Privileged communications and exceptions. (a) With the exception of disclosure to the physician performing or supervising a genetic test and to the referring physician licensed...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 95
  Grounds for discipline. (a) The Department may refuse to issue, renew, or may revoke, suspend, place on probation, reprimand, or take other disciplinary or non-disciplinary...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 97
  Suspension of license for failure to pay restitution. The Department, without further process or hearing, shall suspend the license or other authorization to practice of...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 100
  Violations; injunction; cease and desist order. (a) If any person violates the provisions of this Act, the Secretary may, in the name of the People...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 105
  Investigations; notice and hearing. The Department may investigate the actions of any applicant or any person holding or claiming to hold a license. The Department...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 110
  Record of proceedings; transcript. The Department, at its expense, shall preserve a record of all proceedings at the formal hearing of any case. (Source: P.A....
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 115
  Subpoenas; depositions; oaths. The Department may subpoena and bring before it any person in this State and take the oral or written testimony or compel...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 120
  Compelling testimony. Any court, upon application of the Department, designated hearing officer, or the applicant or licensee against whom proceedings under Section 95 of this...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 125
  Findings and recommendations. At the conclusion of the hearing, the hearing officer shall present to the Secretary a written report of its findings of fact,...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 135
  Secretary; rehearing. Whenever the Secretary believes justice has not been done in the revocation, suspension, or refusal to issue or renew a license or the...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 140
  Appointment of a hearing officer. The Secretary has the authority to appoint any attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois to serve...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 145
  Order or certified copy; prima facie proof. An order or certified copy thereof, over the seal of the Department and purporting to be signed by...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 150
  Restoration of license from discipline. At any time after the successful completion of a term of indefinite probation, suspension, or revocation of a license, the...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 155
  Surrender of license. Upon the revocation or suspension of a license, the licensee shall immediately surrender his or her license to the Department. If the...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 160
  Summary suspension of license. The Secretary may summarily suspend the license of a genetic counselor without a hearing, simultaneously with the institution of proceedings for...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 165
  Administrative review; venue. (a) All final administrative decisions of the Department are subject to judicial review pursuant to the Administrative Review Law and its rules....
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 170
  Certification of record; costs. The Department shall not be required to certify any record to the court, to file an answer in court, or to...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 175
  Violations. Unless otherwise specified, any person found to have violated any provision of this Act is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. (Source: P.A. 93-1041,...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 180
  Administrative Procedure Act; application. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is hereby expressly adopted and incorporated in this Act as if all of the provisions of...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 185
  Home rule. The regulation and licensing of genetic counselors are exclusive powers and functions of the State. A home rule unit may not regulate or...
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 190
  Confidentiality. All information collected by the Department in the course of an examination or investigation of a licensee or applicant, including, but not limited to,...
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  Amendatory provisions; text omitted
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 900
  (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 93-1041, eff. 9-29-04; text omitted.)
• Illinois Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article -
  Amendatory provisions; text omitted
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 905
  (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 93-1041, eff. 9-29-04; text omitted.)
• Illinois Genetic Counselor Licensing Act. - 225 ILCS 135, Section 999
  Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law. (Source: P.A. 93-1041, eff. 9-29-04.)

Last modified: February 18, 2015