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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  


 
4    Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended  
5by adding Section 4c as follows:
 
6    (20 ILCS 505/4c new)
7    Sec. 4c. Temporary residential shelter services. Any child 
8care facility authorized by the Department to provide temporary 
9residential shelter services to children in the guardianship, 
10temporary custody, or protective custody of the Department 
11shall:
12        (1)  provide interventions and activities that engage 
13    the children and youth in its care;
14        (2)  maintain staffing levels that ensure a safe 
15    environment;
16        (3)  implement protocols that require screening and 
17    assessment upon admission to evaluate behaviors that 
18    indicate the risk of elopement and physical aggression, 
19    with the findings reflected in the individual service plan 
20    and updated periodically as new behaviors manifest;
21        (4) establish rules and procedures that prevent the 
22    violation of curfew laws and that do not permit any child 
23    under the age of 18 to leave the facility for any period of 
 
 
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1    time prior to the child's complete discharge from the 
2    temporary shelter program, unless the child is accompanied 
3    by a responsible adult or the facility or the Department 
4    authorizes the child to leave the facility for a particular 
5    purpose; and
6        (5)  whenever a child or youth is absent from the 
7    facility without authorization, utilize the standards of 
8    best practice and adopt actionable steps to locate and 
9    return the child or youth to the facility, including, but 
10    not limited to, calling any known contacts, interviewing 
11    peer groups likely to know whereabouts, searching 
12    community places frequented by the child or youth, and 
13    checking schools and work sites;   actionable steps shall be 
14    frequent and documented and available for review by the 
15    Department.
16    A child care facility shall have its admissions placed on 
17hold by the Department whenever unauthorized absences from the 
18facility are excessive; the admissions  hold shall remain in 
19effect until the facility has complied with a corrective action 
20plan prescribed by the Department, and if the facility is 
21non-compliant, the Department shall impose licensing sanctions 
22up to and including the revocation of the facility's license.
23    The Department shall adopt any rules necessary to implement 
24the requirements of this Section and shall monitor a  child care 
25facility to ensure that the facility establishes and adheres to 
26these requirements.  Nothing in this Section shall be 
 
 
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1interpreted to create a "secure child care facility" as defined 
2in the Child Care Act of 1969.