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1 | AN ACT concerning children.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act is | ||||||
5 | amended by changing Section 10 as follows: | ||||||
6 | (325 ILCS 2/10)
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7 | Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
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8 | "Abandon" has the same meaning as in the Abused and | ||||||
9 | Neglected
Child Reporting Act.
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10 | "Abused child" has the same meaning as in the Abused and | ||||||
11 | Neglected
Child Reporting Act.
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12 | "Child-placing agency" means a licensed public or private | ||||||
13 | agency
that receives a child for the purpose of placing or | ||||||
14 | arranging
for the placement of the child in a foster family | ||||||
15 | home or
other facility for child care, apart from the custody | ||||||
16 | of the child's
parents.
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17 | "Department" or "DCFS" means the Illinois Department of | ||||||
18 | Children and
Family Services.
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19 | "Emergency medical facility" means a freestanding | ||||||
20 | emergency center or
trauma center, as defined in the Emergency | ||||||
21 | Medical Services (EMS) Systems
Act.
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22 | "Emergency medical professional" includes licensed | ||||||
23 | physicians, and any
emergency medical technician-basic, |
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1 | emergency medical
technician-intermediate, emergency medical | ||||||
2 | technician-paramedic,
trauma nurse specialist, and | ||||||
3 | pre-hospital RN, as defined in the
Emergency Medical Services | ||||||
4 | (EMS) Systems Act.
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5 | "Fire station" means a fire station within the State with | ||||||
6 | at least one staff person that is staffed
with at least one | ||||||
7 | full-time emergency medical professional .
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8 | "Hospital" has the same meaning as in the Hospital | ||||||
9 | Licensing Act.
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10 | "Legal custody" means the relationship created by a court | ||||||
11 | order in
the best interest of a newborn infant that imposes on | ||||||
12 | the infant's custodian
the responsibility of physical | ||||||
13 | possession of the infant, the duty to
protect, train, and | ||||||
14 | discipline the infant, and the duty to provide the infant
with | ||||||
15 | food,
shelter, education, and medical care, except as these are | ||||||
16 | limited by
parental rights and responsibilities.
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17 | "Neglected child" has the same meaning as in the Abused and
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18 | Neglected Child Reporting Act.
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19 | "Newborn infant" means a child who a licensed physician | ||||||
20 | reasonably
believes is 30 7 days old or less at the time the | ||||||
21 | child is
initially relinquished to a hospital, police station, | ||||||
22 | fire station, or
emergency
medical facility, and who is not an | ||||||
23 | abused or a neglected child.
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24 | "Police station" means a municipal police station or a | ||||||
25 | county sheriff's
office.
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26 | "Relinquish" means to bring a newborn infant, who a
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1 | licensed physician reasonably believes is 30 7 days old or | ||||||
2 | less,
to a hospital, police station, fire station, or emergency | ||||||
3 | medical facility
and
to leave the infant with personnel of the | ||||||
4 | facility, if the person leaving the
infant does not express an | ||||||
5 | intent to return for the
infant or states that he or she will | ||||||
6 | not return for the infant.
In the case of a mother who gives | ||||||
7 | birth to an infant in a hospital,
the mother's act of leaving | ||||||
8 | that newborn infant at the
hospital (i) without expressing an | ||||||
9 | intent to return for the infant or (ii)
stating that she will | ||||||
10 | not return for the infant is not a "relinquishment" under
this | ||||||
11 | Act.
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12 | "Temporary protective custody" means the temporary | ||||||
13 | placement of
a newborn infant within a hospital or other | ||||||
14 | medical facility out of the
custody of the infant's parent.
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15 | (Source: P.A. 93-820, eff. 7-27-04; 94-941, eff. 6-26-06.)
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