Public Act 096-0955
 		





SB2533 Enrolled
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    AN ACT concerning State government.
  
 
    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 Section 45 as follows:
 
    (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 a 3-year 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, 2011 January 1, 2010,  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 pilot program together with any 
recommendations for statewide implementation of a protocol for 
the investigation of investigating all sudden, unexpected, or 
unexplained child deaths.

(Source: P.A. 95-527, eff. 6-1-08; revised 10-30-09.)
 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.