DENTAL LICENSE-QUALIFICATIONS
Summary
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.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2015
Committee Review
Apr 2015
House Passage
May 2015
Senate Passage
May 2015
Signed into Law
Aug 2015
Introduced Mar 19, 2015
Signed Aug 14, 2015
Floor votes · Senate May 21, 2015 · House Mar 18, 2015
How they voted
45–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 47
May 21, 2015
D
Democratic29
93% Yea
R
Republican18
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
26
Key actions
5
Committee
6
Aug 14, 2015
Signed into law
Governor Approved
lower
May 21, 2015
Lower · Passed
Passed Both Houses
lower
Apr 16, 2015
Upper · Passed
Do Pass Licensed Activities and Pensions; 010-000-000
upper
Apr 8, 2015
Committee
Assigned to Licensed Activities and Pensions
upper
Mar 24, 2015
Committee
Referred to Assignments
upper
Mar 19, 2015
Introduced
Arrive in Senate
upper
Mar 18, 2015
House · Passed
House Vote: pass (97-0-1)
house
Mar 11, 2015
Lower · Passed
Do Pass / Short Debate Health Care Licenses Committee; 012-000-000
lower
Feb 24, 2015
Committee
Assigned to Health Care Licenses Committee
lower
Feb 6, 2015
Committee
Referred to Rules Committee
lower
0 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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