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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB6850
Introduced 4/15/2010, by Rep. William B. Black SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act. Expands the definition of "police station" to include a State university's or a State college's police department and the various district headquarters of the Illinois State Police.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning children.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act is |
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| amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
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| (325 ILCS 2/10)
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| Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
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| "Abandon" has the same meaning as in the Abused and |
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| Neglected
Child Reporting Act.
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| "Abused child" has the same meaning as in the Abused and |
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| Neglected
Child Reporting Act.
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| "Child-placing agency" means a licensed public or private |
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| agency
that receives a child for the purpose of placing or |
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| arranging
for the placement of the child in a foster family |
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| home or
other facility for child care, apart from the custody |
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| of the child's
parents.
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| "Department" or "DCFS" means the Illinois Department of |
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| Children and
Family Services.
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| "Emergency medical facility" means a freestanding |
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| emergency center or
trauma center, as defined in the Emergency |
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| Medical Services (EMS) Systems
Act.
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| "Emergency medical professional" includes licensed |
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| physicians, and any
emergency medical technician-basic, |
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| emergency medical
technician-intermediate, emergency medical |
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| technician-paramedic,
trauma nurse specialist, and |
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| pre-hospital RN, as defined in the
Emergency Medical Services |
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| (EMS) Systems Act.
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| "Fire station" means a fire station within the State with |
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| at least one staff person.
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| "Hospital" has the same meaning as in the Hospital |
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| Licensing Act.
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| "Legal custody" means the relationship created by a court |
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| order in
the best interest of a newborn infant that imposes on |
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| the infant's custodian
the responsibility of physical |
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| possession of the infant, the duty to
protect, train, and |
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| discipline the infant, and the duty to provide the infant
with |
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| food,
shelter, education, and medical care, except as these are |
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| limited by
parental rights and responsibilities.
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| "Neglected child" has the same meaning as in the Abused and
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| Neglected Child Reporting Act.
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| "Newborn infant" means a child who a licensed physician |
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| reasonably
believes is 30 days old or less at the time the |
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| child is
initially relinquished to a hospital, police station, |
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| fire station, or
emergency
medical facility, and who is not an |
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| abused or a neglected child.
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| "Police station" means a municipal police station, or a |
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| county sheriff's
office, a State university's or a State |
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| college's police department, or any of the district |
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| headquarters of the Illinois State Police.
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| "Relinquish" means to bring a newborn infant, who a
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| licensed physician reasonably believes is 30 days old or less,
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| to a hospital, police station, fire station, or emergency |
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| medical facility
and
to leave the infant with personnel of the |
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| facility, if the person leaving the
infant does not express an |
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| intent to return for the
infant or states that he or she will |
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| not return for the infant.
In the case of a mother who gives |
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| birth to an infant in a hospital,
the mother's act of leaving |
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| that newborn infant at the
hospital (i) without expressing an |
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| intent to return for the infant or (ii)
stating that she will |
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| not return for the infant is not a "relinquishment" under
this |
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| Act.
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| "Temporary protective custody" means the temporary |
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| placement of
a newborn infant within a hospital or other |
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| medical facility out of the
custody of the infant's parent.
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| (Source: P.A. 96-345, eff. 1-1-10.)
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