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    AN ACT concerning State government.

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

 
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    Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental 
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Disabilities Administrative Act is amended  by changing 
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Sections 4.3 and 70 as follows:
 



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    (20 ILCS 1705/4.3)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-4.3)



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    Sec. 4.3. Site visits and inspections. 

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    (a) (Blank). 

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    (b) The Department shall establish a system of regular and 
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ongoing
annual on-site
inspections that shall occur at least 
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annually of each facility under its jurisdiction. The 
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inspections shall
be conducted by the Department's central 
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office to:


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        (1) Determine facility compliance with Department 
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    policies and procedures;


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        (2) Determine facility compliance with audit 
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    recommendations;


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        (3) Evaluate facility compliance with applicable 
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    federal standards;


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        (4) Review and follow up on complaints made by 
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    community mental health
agencies and advocates, and on 
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    findings of the Human Rights Authority
division of the 
 


 






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    Guardianship and Advocacy Commission; and


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        (5) Review administrative and management problems 
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    identified
by other sources; and
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        (6) Identify and prevent abuse and neglect.

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(Source: P.A. 92-111, eff. 1-1-02.)

 



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    (20 ILCS 1705/70)


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    Sec. 70. Monitoring by closed circuit television. The

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Department of Human Services as successor to the Department of 
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Mental Health
and Developmental Disabilities may install 
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closed circuit televisions in  quiet
rooms in institutions 
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supervised or operated by the Department to monitor
patients in 
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those quiet rooms.  The Department shall study current and 
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potential uses of electronic monitoring and recording for the 
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purpose of preventing and identifying abuse and neglect within 
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State-operated developmental centers and developmental 
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disabilities services programs funded, certified, or licensed 
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by the Department of Human Services but not those centers or 
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programs licensed by another State agency, and shall report to 
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the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2008, with 
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recommendations on the feasibility of increasing utilization 
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of electronic monitoring and recording for purposes of 
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preventing and identifying abuse and neglect.
Nothing in this 
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Section shall be construed to
supersede or interfere with any 
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current provisions in the Mental Health and
Developmental 
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Disabilities Code concerning the observation and monitoring of

 


 






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patients.

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(Source: P.A. 90-444, eff. 8-16-97; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)