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1 AN ACT in relation to sexual assault nurse examiners.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act
5 is amended by adding Section 7.1 as follows:
6 (20 ILCS 3930/7.1 new)
7 Sec. 7.1. Sexual assault nurse examiner pilot program.
8 (a) Legislative findings and intent. The General
9 Assembly finds that the compassionate treatment of sexual
10 assault victims in hospital emergency rooms is necessary to
11 help alleviate the suffering of sexual assault victims. The
12 General Assembly also finds that the effective collection and
13 presentation of forensic evidence in sexual assault cases is
14 necessary to increase the success rate of prosecutions for
15 sex crimes in Illinois.
16 The General Assembly intends to create a pilot program to
17 establish 4 sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) projects in
18 the State of Illinois. For each project, specially trained
19 sexual assault nurse examiners or specially trained sexual
20 assault physician examiners will provide health assessments
21 and collect forensic evidence from sexual assault victims in
22 the emergency room. The sexual assault nurse examiners or
23 sexual assault physician examiners will also testify to
24 victims' injuries during criminal prosecutions.
25 (b) Definitions. In this Section:
26 (1) "Sexual assault nurse examiner" means a
27 registered nurse who has completed a sexual assault nurse
28 examiner (SANE) training program that meets the Forensic
29 Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Education Guidelines
30 established by the International Association of Forensic
31 Nurses.
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1 (2) "Sexual assault physician examiner" means a
2 physician licensed to practice medicine in all its
3 branches who has completed a sexual assault nurse
4 examiner (SANE) training program that meets the Forensic
5 Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Education Guidelines
6 established by the International Association of Forensic
7 Nurses.
8 (3) "Hospital" means a facility licensed by the
9 Department of Public Health under the Hospital Licensing
10 Act or that meets both the definition of hospital and the
11 exemption provisions of that Act.
12 (4) "Hospital emergency services" means the health
13 care delivered to outpatients within or under the care
14 and supervision of personnel working in a designated
15 emergency department or emergency room of a hospital.
16 (c) SANE pilot program. The Authority shall, subject to
17 appropriation, establish a SANE pilot program to operate 4
18 pilot projects in Illinois. The projects shall be established
19 in the emergency rooms of hospitals in 4 counties
20 geographically distributed throughout the State. Hospitals
21 located throughout the State may apply to the Authority to
22 participate in the program. Each project must provide the
23 following services:
24 (1) Compassionate health assessment and effective
25 forensic evidence collection for sexual assault victims
26 by a trained sexual assault nurse examiner or sexual
27 assault physician examiner in a hospital emergency room
28 as part of the provision of hospital emergency services.
29 (2) Presentation of testimony regarding victims'
30 injuries during criminal prosecutions for sex offenses.
31 (d) Each of the SANE projects established under this
32 pilot program must, at a minimum, meet the Sexual Assault
33 Nurse Examiner Standards of Practice established by the
34 International Association of Forensic Nurses.
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1 (e) Each of the 4 pilot projects established by the
2 Authority under this Section shall be in existence for a
3 minimum of 3 years.
4 (f) Report. No later than 2 years after the
5 establishment of pilot projects under this Section, the
6 Authority must report to the General Assembly on the efficacy
7 of SANE programs.
8 (g) Rules. The Authority shall adopt rules to implement
9 this Section.
10 _________________________________
11 President of the Senate
12 _________________________________
13 Speaker, House of Representatives
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