Public Act 100-0397
 
SB0320 EnrolledLRB100 05105 MJP 15115 b



    AN ACT concerning regulation.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: 



 
    Section 5. The Child Death Review Team Act is amended  by 
changing Sections 15 and 45 as follows:
 


    (20 ILCS 515/15)



    Sec. 15. Child death review teams; establishment. 

    (a) The Director, in consultation with the Executive 
Council, law
enforcement, and other
professionals who work in 
the field of investigating, treating, or preventing
child abuse 
or neglect in that subregion, shall appoint members to a child

death review
team in each of the Department's administrative 
subregions of the State outside
Cook County and at least one 
child death review team in Cook County.  The
members of a team 
shall be appointed for 2-year terms and
shall be eligible for 
reappointment upon the expiration of the terms. The Director 
must fill any vacancy in a team within 60 days after that 
vacancy occurs.


    (b) Each child death review team shall consist of at least 
one member from
each of the following categories:


        (1) Pediatrician or other physician knowledgeable 
    about child abuse and
neglect.


        (2) Representative of the Department.


        (3) State's attorney or State's attorney's 
    representative.


        (4) Representative of a local law enforcement agency.


        (5) Psychologist or psychiatrist.


        (6) Representative of a local health department.


        (7) Representative of a school district or other 
    education or child care
interests.


        (8) Coroner or forensic pathologist.


        (9) Representative of a child welfare agency or child 
    advocacy
organization.


        (10) Representative of a local hospital, trauma 
    center, or provider of
emergency medical services.

        (11) Representative of the Department of State Police.

        (12) Representative of the Department of Public 
    Health. 
    Each child death review team may make recommendations to 
the Director
concerning additional appointments.

    Each child death review team member must have demonstrated 
experience and an
interest in investigating, treating, or 
preventing child abuse or neglect.

    (c) Each child death review team shall select a chairperson 
from among its
members.
The chairperson shall also serve on the 
Illinois Child Death Review Teams
Executive
Council.
    (d) The child death review teams shall be funded under a 
separate line item in the Department's annual budget.


(Source: P.A. 95-527, eff. 6-1-08.)

 
    (20 ILCS 515/45)

    Sec. 45. Child Death Investigation Task Force; pilot 
program. The Child Death Review Teams Executive Council may, 
from funds appropriated by the Illinois General Assembly to the 
Department and provided to the Child Death Review Teams 
Executive Council for this purpose, or from funds that may 
otherwise be provided for this purpose from other public or 
private sources, establish an 18-month pilot program in the 
Southern Region of the State, as designated by the Department, 
under which a special Child Death Investigation Task Force will 
be created by the Child Death Review Teams Executive Council to 
develop and implement a plan for the investigation of sudden, 
unexpected, or unexplained deaths of children under 18 years of 
age occurring within that region. The plan shall include a 
protocol to be followed by child death review teams in the 
review of child deaths authorized under paragraph (a)(5) of 
Section 20 of this Act. The plan must include provisions for 
local or State law enforcement agencies, hospitals, or coroners 
to promptly notify the Task Force of a death or serious 
life-threatening injury to a child, and for the Child Death 
Investigation Task Force to review the death and submit a 
report containing findings and recommendations to the Child 
Death Review Teams Executive Council, the Director, the 
Department of Children and Family Services Inspector General, 
the appropriate State's Attorney, and the State Representative 
and State Senator in whose legislative districts the case 
arose. The plan may include coordination with any investigation 
conducted under the Children's Advocacy Center Act.  By July 1 
of each year, By July 1, 2011,  the Child Death Review Teams 
Executive Council shall submit a report to the Director, the 
General Assembly, and the Governor summarizing the results of 
the Child Death Investigation Task Force pilot program together 
with any recommendations for statewide implementation of a 
protocol for the investigation of all sudden, unexpected, or 
unexplained child deaths.

(Source: P.A. 95-527, eff. 6-1-08; 96-955, eff. 6-30-10; 
96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)