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Developmental Disabilities and Mental Illness Committee
Filed: 03/04/04
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4092
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4092 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental |
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| Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by adding Section |
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| 4.4 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 1705/4.4 new) |
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| Sec. 4.4. Mental health facility data collection.
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| (a) In order to determine the nature, magnitude, and |
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| consequences to persons with mental illness of the closure and |
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| downsizing of State-operated mental health facilities and the |
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| reduction of resources provided to mental health facilities, |
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| the Department shall collect and publish data as set forth in |
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| this Section. This data shall be used to inform future |
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| decisions regarding the public and private mental health |
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| facilities.
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| (b) The Department shall collect, from all inpatient mental |
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| health facilities, statistics concerning the provision of |
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| mental health services and shall publish those statistics at |
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| least once per year. The statistics collected by the Department |
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| shall include the following data: |
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| (1) Admissions or discharges, and average daily census |
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| data and legal basis for admission.
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| (2) Average length of stay for persons discharged by |
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| facility, discharge diagnosis, and legal basis for |
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| admission.
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| (3) Commitment petitions filed by facility, county of |
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| residence, and outcome.
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| (4) Petitions for involuntary treatment under Section |
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| 2-107.1 of the Mental Health and Developmental |
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| Disabilities Code and outcome.
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| (5) Data collected under Section 2-110.1 of the Mental |
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| Health and Developmental Disabilities Code.
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| (6) Number of persons on conditional release from any |
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| State-operated facility pursuant to Section 5-2-4 of the |
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| Unified Code of Corrections.
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| (7) Denials of admission to State-operated facilities |
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| pursuant to Section 3-405 of the Mental Health and |
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| Developmental Disabilities Code.
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| (8) From State-operated facilities, admission by |
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| number of prior admissions and facility of current |
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| admission.
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| (9) Type of placement for discharged persons by |
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| category of facilities, such as: jails, prisons, nursing |
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| homes, shelters, community-integrated living arrangements, |
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| family or relatives, supported or assisted housing, |
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| State-operated facilities, residential facilities, or |
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| independent living.
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| (c) Each mental health facility must provide the |
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| Department, at least quarterly, with the information specified |
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| in this Section and any information required by any rule |
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| promulgated pursuant to this Section. No information shall be |
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| provided under this Section except as permitted under the |
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| Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code and other |
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| State and federal laws governing the confidentiality of mental |
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| health records, substance abuse records, and other medical |
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| records.
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| (d) The Department may collect and disseminate this |
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| information electronically, provided that the Department |
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| provides to mental health facilities technical assistance in |
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| the collection of this data.
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| (e) The Department shall consult with other State |
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| departments and agencies, including, but not limited to, the |
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| Department of Public Health and the Department of Public Aid, |
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| to determine to what extent any of the data included in this |
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| Section is already being collected by these departments and |
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| agencies. The Department shall not require any facility to |
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| provide data under this Section directly to the Department if |
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| the data is already being provided to another State department |
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| or agency. Any data included in this Section that any other |
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| State department or agency is collecting shall be provided to |
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| the Department for the purposes set forth in this Section. The |
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| Department may use information collected pursuant to |
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| subsection (b) of Section 12 of the Mental Health and |
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| Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act for the |
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| purposes of this Section. The Department may form a work group |
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| of the Department of Public Health, the Department of Public |
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| Aid, and representatives of mental health facilities for the |
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| purpose of ensuring coordination and cooperation.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, |
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| 2005.".
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