2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 110 - HIGHER EDUCATION › 110 ILCS 905/ - Allied Health Care Professional Assistance Law.

(110 ILCS 905/2001) (from Ch. 144, par. 1481)
Sec. 2001. 
		Short title. 
		This Article may be cited as the Allied Health Care Professional Assistance Law.
(Source: P.A. 86-1187.)
(110 ILCS 905/2002) (from Ch. 144, par. 1482)
Sec. 2002. 
		Purpose. 
		The purpose of this Law is to establish
a program in the Illinois Department of Public Health to upgrade
primary health care services for all citizens of the State, by
providing grants and scholarships to allied health care professionals
who will agree to practice in areas of the State demonstrating
the greatest need for more professional medical care. The program
shall encourage allied health care professionals to locate in
areas where health manpower shortages exist and to increase the
total number of allied health care professionals in the State.
(Source: P.A. 86-1187.)
(110 ILCS 905/2003) (from Ch. 144, par. 1483)
Sec. 2003. 
		Definitions. 
		As used in this Law, unless the context clearly
requires otherwise:
(a) "Eligible allied health care professional" means a person who meets all
of the following qualifications:
(1) he or she is studying an allied health care field     in a medical or other school located in Illinois and accredited in its field or otherwise approved by the Department, and agrees to obtain a license to practice in his or her field in this State;
(2) he or she exhibits financial need as determined     by the Department; and
(3) he or she agrees to practice full-time in a     Designated Shortage Area as an allied health care professional one year for each year he or she is a scholarship recipient.
(b) "Department" means the Illinois Department of Public Health.
(c) "Designated Shortage Area" means an area designated by the Director
of Public Health as a physician shortage area, a medically underserved
area, or a critical health manpower shortage area as defined by the United
States Department of Health and Human Services, or as further defined by
the Department to enable it to effectively fulfill the purpose stated in
Section 2002. Such areas may include the following:
(1) an urban or rural area which is a rational area     for the delivery of health services;
(2) a population group; or
(3) a public or nonprofit private medical facility.
(Source: P.A. 86-1187.)
(110 ILCS 905/2004) (from Ch. 144, par. 1484)
Sec. 2004. 
		Grants and scholarships; rules.
(a) The Department may
establish a program of grants and scholarships to be awarded to eligible
allied health care professionals, subject to amounts appropriated for that
purpose, and may award grants and scholarships to such persons in order to
accomplish the purposes expressed in Section 2002. The Department shall
adopt criteria for the awarding of grants and scholarships under this Law,
including standards of financial need.
(b) The Department also shall adopt all rules and regulations necessary
to implement the provisions of this Law.
(Source: P.A. 86-1187.)
(110 ILCS 905/2005) (from Ch. 144, par. 1485)
Sec. 2005. 
		Failure to fulfill scholarship obligation. 
		Scholarship
recipients who fail to fulfill the obligation described in paragraph (3) of
subsection (a) of Section 2003 shall pay to the Department an amount equal
to 3 times the amount of the annual scholarship grant received for each
unfulfilled year of the obligation together with interest at 7% per year on
that amount. However, this obligation to repay does not apply when the
failure to fulfill the obligation results from involuntarily leaving the
profession due to a decrease in the number of health care professionals
employed in the State or from the death or adjudication as incompetent of
the person holding the scholarship. No claim for repayment may be filed
against the estate of such a decedent or incompetent.
Each person applying for such a scholarship shall be provided with a
copy of this Section at the time he or she applies for the benefits of
such scholarship.
(Source: P.A. 86-1187.)