This bill regulates AI use by registered nurses, focusing on transparency, patient notice, confidentiality protections, training, accountability, and is effective immediately. It authorizes the Department to investigate healthcare entities for AI provision violations.
If you employ registered nurses using AI in patient care in Illinois, you must maintain validation records and provide training or face penalties.
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HB 4804 introduces regulations on AI use by registered nurses in Illinois, mandating transparency, patient notice, confidentiality protections, training, accountability measures, and prohibits sole reliance on AI for staffing and other key decisions, while ensuring nurses have access to data inputs and key factors. It also requires healthcare entities to provide training on AI failure modes and make validation and bias monitoring records available to the Department upon request. The bill amends the grounds for discipline to add violations of the AI provisions by a registered professional nurse and authorizes the Department to investigate healthcare entities for AI provision violations. It is effective immediately.
Key Provisions
- Prohibits substituting AI for nursing services.
- Requires AI to be used as clinical decision support under nurse control.
- Mandates patient notice and confidentiality protections.
- Requires training for nurses on AI use and limitations.
- Healthcare entities must maintain validation and bias monitoring records and make them available to the Department upon request.
- Prohibits staffing, triage, admission, discharge, or transfer decisions relying solely on AI.
- Healthcare entities must ensure nurses have access to data inputs and key factors for recommendations.
- Requires healthcare entities to provide training on known failure modes of AI systems.
- Authorizes the Department to investigate healthcare entities for AI provision violations.
- Includes exceptions for nonclinical activities.
- Amends the grounds for discipline to include violations of the AI provisions by registered professional nurses.
- Effective immediately.
Latest Legislative Action
Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Bill Sponsors
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Bob Morgan D | Primary |
| Elizabeth "Lisa" Hernandez | Cosponsor |
Compliance Checklist
Who: Healthcare entities employing registered nurses.
Penalty: Potential disciplinary action against nurses and investigations.
Who: Healthcare entities employing registered nurses.
Penalty: Potential disciplinary action against nurses.
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