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320 ILCS 20/4.2

(320 ILCS 20/4.2)

Sec. 4.2. Testimony by mandated reporter and investigator.

Any mandated
reporter who makes a report or any person who
investigates a report under
this Act shall testify fully in any judicial proceeding resulting from such
report, as to any evidence of abuse, abandonment, neglect, or financial exploitation or the
cause thereof.  Any
mandated reporter who is required to report a suspected case of or a suspicious death due to abuse, abandonment, neglect,
or
financial exploitation under
Section 4 of this Act shall testify fully in any administrative hearing
resulting from such report, as to any evidence of abuse, abandonment, neglect, or financial
exploitation or the
cause thereof.  No evidence shall be excluded by reason of any common law
or statutory privilege relating to communications between the alleged
abuser or the eligible adult subject of the report
under
this Act and the person making or investigating the report.

(Source: P.A. 102-244, eff. 1-1-22; 103-329, eff. 1-1-24.)