101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB3812

 

Introduced 2/14/2020, by Sen. Robert F. Martwick

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
740 ILCS 110/9  from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 809
740 ILCS 110/13  from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 813

    Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act. Removes language permitting disclosure of a record or communication without consent to an advocate consulted by a therapist or agency which provides services concerning the therapist's or agency's legal rights or duties in relation to the recipient and the services being provided. Provides that a notation of the information disclosed and the purpose of such disclosure or use is not required to be noted in the recipient's record in the case of a disclosure to an attorney consulted by a therapist or agency which provides services concerning the therapist's or agency's legal rights or duties in relation to the recipient and the services being provided.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
5Disabilities Confidentiality Act is amended by changing
6Sections 9 and 13 as follows:
 
7    (740 ILCS 110/9)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 809)
8    Sec. 9. In the course of providing services and after the
9conclusion of the provision of services, including for the
10purposes of treatment and care coordination, a therapist,
11integrated health system, or member of an interdisciplinary
12team may use, disclose, or re-disclose a record or
13communications without consent to:
14        (1) the therapist's supervisor, a consulting
15    therapist, members of a staff team participating in the
16    provision of services, a record custodian, a business
17    associate, an integrated health system, a member of an
18    interdisciplinary team, or a person acting under the
19    supervision and control of the therapist;
20        (2) persons conducting a peer review of the services
21    being provided;
22        (3) the Institute for Juvenile Research and the
23    Institute for the Study of Developmental Disabilities;

 

 

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1        (4) an attorney or advocate consulted by a therapist or
2    agency which provides services concerning the therapist's
3    or agency's legal rights or duties in relation to the
4    recipient and the services being provided; and
5        (5) the Inspector General of the Department of Children
6    and Family Services when such records or communications are
7    relevant to a pending investigation authorized by Section
8    35.5 of the Children and Family Services Act where:
9            (A) the recipient was either (i) a parent, foster
10        parent, or caretaker who is an alleged perpetrator of
11        abuse or neglect or the subject of a dependency
12        investigation or (ii) a victim of alleged abuse or
13        neglect who was not a youth in care as defined in
14        Section 4d of the Children and Family Services Act, and
15            (B) available information demonstrates that the
16        mental health of the recipient was or should have been
17        an issue to the safety of the child.
18    In the course of providing services, a therapist,
19integrated health system, or member of an interdisciplinary
20team may disclose a record or communications without consent to
21any department, agency, institution or facility which has
22custody of the recipient pursuant to State statute or any court
23order of commitment.
24    Information may be disclosed under this Section only to the
25extent that knowledge of the record or communications is
26essential to the purpose for which disclosure is made and only

 

 

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1after the recipient is informed that such disclosure may be
2made. A person to whom disclosure is made under this Section
3shall not redisclose any information except as provided in this
4Act.
5(Source: P.A. 100-159, eff. 8-18-17.)
 
6    (740 ILCS 110/13)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 813)
7    Sec. 13. Whenever disclosure of a record or communication
8is made without consent pursuant to this Act, other than uses,
9disclosures, or redisclosures permitted under paragraph (4) of
10Section 9 and Sections 9.5, 9.8, 9.9, 9.10, and 9.11 of this
11Act, or other than uses, disclosures, or redisclosures
12permitted under Sections 9, 9.2, and 9.4 of this Act effected
13by electronic transmission, or whenever a record is used
14pursuant to Sections 7 and 8 of this Act, a notation of the
15information disclosed and the purpose of such disclosure or use
16shall be noted in the recipient's record together with the date
17and the name of the person to whom disclosure was made or by
18whom the record was used.
19(Source: P.A. 98-378, eff. 8-16-13.)