HB6798 Summary

• Appropriates $84,185,200 in Other State Funds to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010.

• Allocates funds across multiple regulatory programs including financial institutions, credit unions, banking, pawnbrokers, mortgage lending, real estate, appraisals, auctioneers, and home inspectors.

• Appropriates funds for professional licensing and disciplinary functions covering general professions, dentistry, medicine, optometry, design professionals, pharmacy, podiatry, nursing, CPAs, and cemetery oversight.

• Establishes $500,000 appropriation from Nursing Fund for establishment and operation of an Illinois Center for Nursing.

• Effective date is July 1, 2010.