|
standards prescribed by this
Act and rules adopted by the |
Department pursuant to this
Act, and practices within an |
Intermediate or Advanced
Life Support EMS System.
|
(b-5) "Advanced Emergency Medical Technician" or "A-EMT" |
means a person who has successfully completed a course in basic |
and limited advanced emergency medical care as approved by the |
Department, is currently licensed by the Department in |
accordance with standards prescribed by this Act and rules |
adopted by the Department pursuant to this Act, and practices |
within an Intermediate or Advanced Life Support EMS System. |
(c) "Paramedic (EMT-P)" means a person who
has successfully |
completed a
course in advanced life support care
as approved
by |
the Department, is licensed by the Department
in accordance |
with standards prescribed by this Act and
rules adopted by the |
Department pursuant to this Act, and
practices within an |
Advanced Life Support EMS System. A valid Emergency Medical |
Technician-Paramedic (EMT-P) license issued under this Act |
shall continue to be valid and shall be recognized as a |
Paramedic license until the Emergency Medical |
Technician-Paramedic (EMT-P) license expires.
|
(c-5) "Emergency Medical Responder" or "EMR (First |
Responder)" means a person who has successfully completed a |
course in emergency medical response as approved by the |
Department and provides emergency medical response services |
prior to the arrival of an ambulance or specialized emergency |
medical services vehicle, in accordance with the level of care |
|
established by the National EMS Educational Standards |
Emergency Medical Responder course as modified by the |
Department. An Emergency Medical Responder who provides |
services as part of an EMS System response plan shall comply |
with the applicable sections of the Program Plan, as approved |
by the Department, of that EMS System. The Department shall |
have the authority to adopt rules governing the curriculum, |
practice, and necessary equipment applicable to Emergency |
Medical Responders. |
On August 15, 2014 (the effective date of Public Act |
98-973) this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly, a |
person who is licensed by the Department as a First Responder |
and has completed a Department-approved course in first |
responder defibrillator training based on, or equivalent to, |
the National EMS Educational Standards or other standards |
previously recognized by the Department shall be eligible for |
licensure as an Emergency Medical Responder upon meeting the |
licensure requirements and submitting an application to the |
Department. A valid First Responder license issued under this |
Act shall continue to be valid and shall be recognized as an |
Emergency Medical Responder license until the First Responder |
license expires. |
(c-10) All EMS Systems and licensees shall be fully |
compliant with the National EMS Education Standards, as |
modified by the Department in administrative rules, within 24 |
months after the adoption of the administrative rules. |
|
(d) The Department shall have the authority and
|
responsibility to:
|
(1) Prescribe education and training requirements, |
which
includes training in the use of epinephrine,
for all |
levels of EMS personnel except for EMRs, based on the |
National EMS Educational Standards
and any modifications |
to those curricula specified by the
Department through |
rules adopted pursuant to this Act.
|
(2) Prescribe licensure testing requirements
for all |
levels of EMS personnel, which shall include a requirement |
that
all phases of instruction, training, and field |
experience be
completed before taking the appropriate |
licensure examination.
Candidates may elect to take the |
appropriate National Registry examination in lieu of the
|
Department's examination, but are responsible for making
|
their own arrangements for taking the National Registry
|
examination. In prescribing licensure testing requirements |
for honorably discharged members of the armed forces of the |
United States under this paragraph (2), the Department |
shall ensure that a candidate's military emergency medical |
training, emergency medical curriculum completed, and |
clinical experience, as described in paragraph (2.5), are |
recognized.
|
(2.5) Review applications for EMS personnel licensure |
from
honorably discharged members of the armed forces of |
the United States with military emergency medical |
|
training. Applications shall be filed with the Department |
within one year after military discharge and shall contain: |
(i) proof of successful completion of military emergency |
medical training; (ii) a detailed description of the |
emergency medical curriculum completed; and (iii) a |
detailed description of the applicant's clinical |
experience. The Department may request additional and |
clarifying information. The Department shall evaluate the |
application, including the applicant's training and |
experience, consistent with the standards set forth under |
subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) of Section 3.10. If the |
application clearly demonstrates that the training and |
experience meets such standards, the Department shall |
offer the applicant the opportunity to successfully |
complete a Department-approved EMS personnel examination |
for the level of license for which the applicant is |
qualified. Upon passage of an examination, the Department |
shall issue a license, which shall be subject to all |
provisions of this Act that are otherwise applicable to the |
level of EMS personnel
license issued. |
(3) License individuals as an EMR, EMT, EMT-I, A-EMT,
|
or Paramedic who have met the Department's education, |
training and
examination requirements.
|
(4) Prescribe annual continuing education and
|
relicensure requirements for all EMS personnel licensure
|
levels.
|
|
(5) Relicense individuals as an EMD, EMR, EMT, EMT-I, |
A-EMT,
or Paramedic every 4 years, based on their |
compliance with
continuing education and relicensure |
requirements as required by the Department pursuant to this |
Act. Every 4 years, a Paramedic shall have 100 hours of |
approved continuing education, an EMT-I and an advanced EMT |
shall have 80 hours of approved continuing education, and |
an EMT shall have 60 hours of approved continuing |
education. An Illinois licensed EMR, EMD, EMT, EMT-I, |
A-EMT, Paramedic, ECRN, or PHRN whose license has been |
expired for less than 36 months may apply for reinstatement |
by the Department. Reinstatement shall require that the |
applicant (i) submit satisfactory proof of completion of |
continuing medical education and clinical requirements to |
be prescribed by the Department in an administrative rule; |
(ii) submit a positive recommendation from an Illinois EMS |
Medical Director attesting to the applicant's |
qualifications for retesting; and (iii) pass a Department |
approved test for the level of EMS personnel license sought |
to be reinstated.
|
(6) Grant inactive status to any EMR, EMD, EMT, EMT-I, |
A-EMT, Paramedic, ECRN, or PHRN who
qualifies, based on |
standards and procedures established by
the Department in |
rules adopted pursuant to this Act.
|
(7) Charge a fee for EMS personnel examination, |
licensure, and license renewal.
|
|
(8) Suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew the
|
license of any licensee, after an opportunity for an |
impartial hearing before a neutral administrative law |
judge appointed by the Director, where the preponderance of |
the evidence shows one or more of the following:
|
(A) The licensee has not met continuing
education |
or relicensure requirements as prescribed by the |
Department;
|
(B) The licensee has failed to maintain
|
proficiency in the level of skills for which he or she |
is licensed;
|
(C) The licensee, during the provision of
medical |
services, engaged in dishonorable, unethical, or
|
unprofessional conduct of a character likely to |
deceive,
defraud, or harm the public;
|
(D) The licensee has failed to maintain or
has |
violated standards of performance and conduct as |
prescribed
by the Department in rules adopted pursuant |
to this Act or
his or her EMS System's Program Plan;
|
(E) The licensee is physically impaired to
the |
extent that he or she cannot physically perform the |
skills and
functions for which he or she is licensed, |
as verified by a
physician, unless the person is on |
inactive status pursuant
to Department regulations;
|
(F) The licensee is mentally impaired to the
extent |
that he or she cannot exercise the appropriate |
|
judgment,
skill and safety for performing the |
functions for which he
or she is licensed, as verified |
by a physician, unless the person
is on inactive status |
pursuant to Department regulations;
|
(G) The licensee has violated this Act or any
rule |
adopted by the Department pursuant to this Act; or |
(H) The licensee has been convicted (or entered a |
plea of guilty or nolo-contendere) by a court of |
competent jurisdiction of a Class X, Class 1, or Class |
2 felony in this State or an out-of-state equivalent |
offense. |
(9) Prescribe education and training requirements in |
the administration and use of opioid antagonists for all |
levels of EMS personnel based on the National EMS |
Educational Standards and any modifications to those |
curricula specified by the Department through rules |
adopted pursuant to this Act. |
(d-5) An EMR, EMD, EMT, EMT-I, A-EMT, Paramedic, ECRN, or |
PHRN who is a member of the Illinois National Guard or an |
Illinois State Trooper or who exclusively serves as a volunteer |
for units of local government with a population base of less |
than 5,000 or as a volunteer
for a not-for-profit organization |
that serves a service area
with a population base of less than |
5,000 may submit an application to the Department for a waiver |
of the fees described under paragraph (7) of subsection (d) of |
this Section on a form prescribed by the Department. |
|
The education requirements prescribed by the Department |
under this Section must allow for the suspension of those |
requirements in the case of a member of the armed services or |
reserve forces of the United States or a member of the Illinois |
National Guard who is on active duty pursuant to an executive |
order of the President of the United States, an act of the |
Congress of the United States, or an order of the Governor at |
the time that the member would otherwise be required to fulfill |
a particular education requirement. Such a person must fulfill |
the education requirement within 6 months after his or her |
release from active duty.
|
(e) In the event that any rule of the
Department or an EMS |
Medical Director that requires testing for drug
use as a |
condition of the applicable EMS personnel license conflicts |
with or
duplicates a provision of a collective bargaining |
agreement
that requires testing for drug use, that rule shall |
not
apply to any person covered by the collective bargaining
|
agreement.
|
(f) At the time of applying for or renewing his or her |
license, an applicant for a license or license renewal may |
submit an email address to the Department. The Department shall |
keep the email address on file as a form of contact for the |
individual. The Department shall send license renewal notices |
electronically and by mail to all licensees who provide the |
Department with his or her email address. The notices shall be |
sent at least 60 days prior to the expiration date of the |
|
license. |
(Source: P.A. 98-53, eff. 1-1-14; 98-463, eff. 8-16-13; 98-973, |
eff. 8-15-14; 99-480, eff. 9-9-15; revised 10-4-18.)
|
(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 100-1082)
|
Sec. 3.50. Emergency Medical Services personnel licensure |
levels.
|
(a) "Emergency Medical Technician" or
"EMT" means a person |
who has successfully completed a course in basic life support
|
as approved by the
Department, is currently licensed by the |
Department in
accordance with standards prescribed by this Act |
and rules
adopted by the Department pursuant to this Act, and |
practices within an EMS
System. A valid Emergency Medical |
Technician-Basic (EMT-B) license issued under this Act shall |
continue to be valid and shall be recognized as an Emergency |
Medical Technician (EMT) license until the Emergency Medical |
Technician-Basic (EMT-B) license expires.
|
(b) "Emergency Medical Technician-Intermediate"
or "EMT-I" |
means a person who has successfully completed a
course in |
intermediate life support
as approved
by the Department, is |
currently licensed by the
Department in accordance with |
standards prescribed by this
Act and rules adopted by the |
Department pursuant to this
Act, and practices within an |
Intermediate or Advanced
Life Support EMS System.
|
(b-5) "Advanced Emergency Medical Technician" or "A-EMT" |
means a person who has successfully completed a course in basic |
|
and limited advanced emergency medical care as approved by the |
Department, is currently licensed by the Department in |
accordance with standards prescribed by this Act and rules |
adopted by the Department pursuant to this Act, and practices |
within an Intermediate or Advanced Life Support EMS System. |
(c) "Paramedic (EMT-P)" means a person who
has successfully |
completed a
course in advanced life support care
as approved
by |
the Department, is licensed by the Department
in accordance |
with standards prescribed by this Act and
rules adopted by the |
Department pursuant to this Act, and
practices within an |
Advanced Life Support EMS System. A valid Emergency Medical |
Technician-Paramedic (EMT-P) license issued under this Act |
shall continue to be valid and shall be recognized as a |
Paramedic license until the Emergency Medical |
Technician-Paramedic (EMT-P) license expires.
|
(c-5) "Emergency Medical Responder" or "EMR (First |
Responder)" means a person who has successfully completed a |
course in emergency medical response as approved by the |
Department and provides emergency medical response services |
prior to the arrival of an ambulance or specialized emergency |
medical services vehicle, in accordance with the level of care |
established by the National EMS Educational Standards |
Emergency Medical Responder course as modified by the |
Department. An Emergency Medical Responder who provides |
services as part of an EMS System response plan shall comply |
with the applicable sections of the Program Plan, as approved |
|
by the Department, of that EMS System. The Department shall |
have the authority to adopt rules governing the curriculum, |
practice, and necessary equipment applicable to Emergency |
Medical Responders. |
On August 15, 2014 (the effective date of Public Act |
98-973) this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly, a |
person who is licensed by the Department as a First Responder |
and has completed a Department-approved course in first |
responder defibrillator training based on, or equivalent to, |
the National EMS Educational Standards or other standards |
previously recognized by the Department shall be eligible for |
licensure as an Emergency Medical Responder upon meeting the |
licensure requirements and submitting an application to the |
Department. A valid First Responder license issued under this |
Act shall continue to be valid and shall be recognized as an |
Emergency Medical Responder license until the First Responder |
license expires. |
(c-10) All EMS Systems and licensees shall be fully |
compliant with the National EMS Education Standards, as |
modified by the Department in administrative rules, within 24 |
months after the adoption of the administrative rules. |
(d) The Department shall have the authority and
|
responsibility to:
|
(1) Prescribe education and training requirements, |
which
includes training in the use of epinephrine,
for all |
levels of EMS personnel except for EMRs, based on the |
|
National EMS Educational Standards
and any modifications |
to those curricula specified by the
Department through |
rules adopted pursuant to this Act.
|
(2) Prescribe licensure testing requirements
for all |
levels of EMS personnel, which shall include a requirement |
that
all phases of instruction, training, and field |
experience be
completed before taking the appropriate |
licensure examination.
Candidates may elect to take the |
appropriate National Registry examination in lieu of the
|
Department's examination, but are responsible for making
|
their own arrangements for taking the National Registry
|
examination. In prescribing licensure testing requirements |
for honorably discharged members of the armed forces of the |
United States under this paragraph (2), the Department |
shall ensure that a candidate's military emergency medical |
training, emergency medical curriculum completed, and |
clinical experience, as described in paragraph (2.5), are |
recognized.
|
(2.5) Review applications for EMS personnel licensure |
from
honorably discharged members of the armed forces of |
the United States with military emergency medical |
training. Applications shall be filed with the Department |
within one year after military discharge and shall contain: |
(i) proof of successful completion of military emergency |
medical training; (ii) a detailed description of the |
emergency medical curriculum completed; and (iii) a |
|
detailed description of the applicant's clinical |
experience. The Department may request additional and |
clarifying information. The Department shall evaluate the |
application, including the applicant's training and |
experience, consistent with the standards set forth under |
subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) of Section 3.10. If the |
application clearly demonstrates that the training and |
experience meet meets such standards, the Department shall |
offer the applicant the opportunity to successfully |
complete a Department-approved EMS personnel examination |
for the level of license for which the applicant is |
qualified. Upon passage of an examination, the Department |
shall issue a license, which shall be subject to all |
provisions of this Act that are otherwise applicable to the |
level of EMS personnel
license issued. |
(3) License individuals as an EMR, EMT, EMT-I, A-EMT,
|
or Paramedic who have met the Department's education, |
training and
examination requirements.
|
(4) Prescribe annual continuing education and
|
relicensure requirements for all EMS personnel licensure
|
levels.
|
(5) Relicense individuals as an EMD, EMR, EMT, EMT-I, |
A-EMT, PHRN, PHAPRN, PHPA,
or Paramedic every 4 years, |
based on their compliance with
continuing education and |
relicensure requirements as required by the Department |
pursuant to this Act. Every 4 years, a Paramedic shall have |
|
100 hours of approved continuing education, an EMT-I and an |
advanced EMT shall have 80 hours of approved continuing |
education, and an EMT shall have 60 hours of approved |
continuing education. An Illinois licensed EMR, EMD, EMT, |
EMT-I, A-EMT, Paramedic, ECRN, PHPA, PHAPRN, or PHRN whose |
license has been expired for less than 36 months may apply |
for reinstatement by the Department. Reinstatement shall |
require that the applicant (i) submit satisfactory proof of |
completion of continuing medical education and clinical |
requirements to be prescribed by the Department in an |
administrative rule; (ii) submit a positive recommendation |
from an Illinois EMS Medical Director attesting to the |
applicant's qualifications for retesting; and (iii) pass a |
Department approved test for the level of EMS personnel |
license sought to be reinstated.
|
(6) Grant inactive status to any EMR, EMD, EMT, EMT-I, |
A-EMT, Paramedic, ECRN, PHAPRN, PHPA, or PHRN who
|
qualifies, based on standards and procedures established |
by
the Department in rules adopted pursuant to this Act.
|
(7) Charge a fee for EMS personnel examination, |
licensure, and license renewal.
|
(8) Suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew the
|
license of any licensee, after an opportunity for an |
impartial hearing before a neutral administrative law |
judge appointed by the Director, where the preponderance of |
the evidence shows one or more of the following:
|
|
(A) The licensee has not met continuing
education |
or relicensure requirements as prescribed by the |
Department;
|
(B) The licensee has failed to maintain
|
proficiency in the level of skills for which he or she |
is licensed;
|
(C) The licensee, during the provision of
medical |
services, engaged in dishonorable, unethical, or
|
unprofessional conduct of a character likely to |
deceive,
defraud, or harm the public;
|
(D) The licensee has failed to maintain or
has |
violated standards of performance and conduct as |
prescribed
by the Department in rules adopted pursuant |
to this Act or
his or her EMS System's Program Plan;
|
(E) The licensee is physically impaired to
the |
extent that he or she cannot physically perform the |
skills and
functions for which he or she is licensed, |
as verified by a
physician, unless the person is on |
inactive status pursuant
to Department regulations;
|
(F) The licensee is mentally impaired to the
extent |
that he or she cannot exercise the appropriate |
judgment,
skill and safety for performing the |
functions for which he
or she is licensed, as verified |
by a physician, unless the person
is on inactive status |
pursuant to Department regulations;
|
(G) The licensee has violated this Act or any
rule |
|
adopted by the Department pursuant to this Act; or |
(H) The licensee has been convicted (or entered a |
plea of guilty or nolo-contendere) by a court of |
competent jurisdiction of a Class X, Class 1, or Class |
2 felony in this State or an out-of-state equivalent |
offense. |
(9) Prescribe education and training requirements in |
the administration and use of opioid antagonists for all |
levels of EMS personnel based on the National EMS |
Educational Standards and any modifications to those |
curricula specified by the Department through rules |
adopted pursuant to this Act. |
(d-5) An EMR, EMD, EMT, EMT-I, A-EMT, Paramedic, ECRN, |
PHAPRN, PHPA, or PHRN who is a member of the Illinois National |
Guard or an Illinois State Trooper or who exclusively serves as |
a volunteer for units of local government with a population |
base of less than 5,000 or as a volunteer
for a not-for-profit |
organization that serves a service area
with a population base |
of less than 5,000 may submit an application to the Department |
for a waiver of the fees described under paragraph (7) of |
subsection (d) of this Section on a form prescribed by the |
Department. |
The education requirements prescribed by the Department |
under this Section must allow for the suspension of those |
requirements in the case of a member of the armed services or |
reserve forces of the United States or a member of the Illinois |
|
National Guard who is on active duty pursuant to an executive |
order of the President of the United States, an act of the |
Congress of the United States, or an order of the Governor at |
the time that the member would otherwise be required to fulfill |
a particular education requirement. Such a person must fulfill |
the education requirement within 6 months after his or her |
release from active duty.
|
(e) In the event that any rule of the
Department or an EMS |
Medical Director that requires testing for drug
use as a |
condition of the applicable EMS personnel license conflicts |
with or
duplicates a provision of a collective bargaining |
agreement
that requires testing for drug use, that rule shall |
not
apply to any person covered by the collective bargaining
|
agreement.
|
(f) At the time of applying for or renewing his or her |
license, an applicant for a license or license renewal may |
submit an email address to the Department. The Department shall |
keep the email address on file as a form of contact for the |
individual. The Department shall send license renewal notices |
electronically and by mail to all licensees who provide the |
Department with his or her email address. The notices shall be |
sent at least 60 days prior to the expiration date of the |
license. |
(Source: P.A. 99-480, eff. 9-9-15; 100-1082, eff. 8-24-19; |
revised 10-4-18.)
|