Sen. Karina Villa

Filed: 4/20/2023

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2039

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2039 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5Access to Public Health Data Act.
 
6    Section 5. Definition. In this Act, "public health data"
7includes, but is not limited to, birth and death certificate
8data, hospital discharge data, adverse pregnancy outcomes
9reporting system (APORS) data, cancer registry data, syndromic
10surveillance data, and prescription monitoring program (PMP)
11data.
 
12    Section 10. Access to public health data; certified local
13health departments; safeguards.
14    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of State law to
15the contrary, the Department of Public Health, the Department

 

 

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1of Human Services, and the Department of Healthcare and Family
2Services shall, at the request of a certified local health
3department in this State, make any and all public health data
4related to residents of that certified local health
5department's jurisdiction available to that certified local
6health department for the purposes of preventing or
7controlling disease, injury, or disability. The commissioner,
8executive director, chief operating officer, chief medical
9officer, or equivalent executive leader of a certified local
10health department has express authority to request and receive
11such data.
12    (b) A certified local health department shall have access
13to data under this Act only for the purposes identified in this
14Act. The Department of Public Health, the Department of Human
15Services, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services,
16and the requesting certified local health department shall
17protect the privacy and security of data obtained under this
18Act in accordance with applicable federal and State law and
19shall apply appropriate administrative, physical, and
20technical safeguards to ensure the privacy and security of the
21data and protect the data from unauthorized access, use, or
22disclosure. Appropriate safeguards include, but are not
23limited to, authentication and authorization of users prior to
24gaining access to data obtained under this Act.
25    (c) A certified local health department shall apply
26appropriate controls to ensure that access to data under this

 

 

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1Act is provided on a minimum, necessary basis and limited to
2only those persons whose public health duties and
3responsibilities require such access. Any data obtained under
4this Act and in the possession of a certified local health
5department shall be exempt from inspection and copying under
6subsection (pp) of Section 7 of the Freedom of Information
7Act. Any data obtained under this Act shall not be admissible
8as evidence nor discoverable in any action of any kind in any
9court or before any tribunal, board, agency, or person. The
10access to or disclosure of any information or data by a
11certified local health department under this Act shall not
12waive or have any effect upon its nondiscoverability or
13inadmissibility. The identity of any individual identified in
14data obtained under this Act shall be confidential and shall
15not be disclosed publicly or in any action of any kind.
 
16    Section 15. Data use agreements. A disclosing State
17department and the requesting certified local health
18department shall enter into a data use agreement to ensure
19appropriate, effective, and efficient use of data obtained
20under this Act by the certified local health department,
21though no data use agreement shall, in a manner inconsistent
22with the purpose or requirements of this Act, impede certified
23local health department access to any public health data
24available to the Department of Public Health, the Department
25of Human Services, or the Department of Healthcare and Family

 

 

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1Services, nor shall it require indemnification as a
2prerequisite to access. Each disclosing State department shall
3execute a single master data use agreement that includes all
4data sets. Master data use agreements shall include data
5content, format, method of transfer, analytic and statistical
6methods, scope of use, and requirements for safeguarding the
7data. Pursuant to 77 Ill. Adm. Code 600.300, the executive
8officer of each certified local health department shall
9execute all master data use agreements. Each certified local
10health department shall be required to opt into applicable
11master data use agreements with each disclosing State
12department to obtain requested data. Certified local health
13departments shall not be required to opt into any master data
14use agreement unless they are requesting subject data.
15Furthermore, all State departments shall enter into
16interdepartmental agreements with other State departments to
17share applicable data with eligible certified local health
18departments.
 
19    Section 20. Latest available data. The Department of
20Public Health, the Department of Human Services, and the
21Department of Healthcare and Family Services must provide the
22latest available data for each certified local health
23department within 120 business days after completion of the
24applicable master data use agreement, except to the extent
25prohibited by current technology.
 

 

 

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1    Section 25. Rules. The Department of Public Health, the
2Department of Human Services, and the Department of Healthcare
3and Family Services may adopt any rules necessary to implement
4this Act.
 
5    Section 900. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
6changing Section 7 as follows:
 
7    (5 ILCS 140/7)
8    (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 102-982)
9    Sec. 7. Exemptions.
10    (1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public
11record that contains information that is exempt from
12disclosure under this Section, but also contains information
13that is not exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect
14to redact the information that is exempt. The public body
15shall make the remaining information available for inspection
16and copying. Subject to this requirement, the following shall
17be exempt from inspection and copying:
18        (a) Information specifically prohibited from
19    disclosure by federal or State law or rules and
20    regulations implementing federal or State law.
21        (b) Private information, unless disclosure is required
22    by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law,
23    or a court order.

 

 

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1        (b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases
2    maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and
3    specifically designed to provide information to one or
4    more law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or
5    mental status of one or more individual subjects.
6        (c) Personal information contained within public
7    records, the disclosure of which would constitute a
8    clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless
9    the disclosure is consented to in writing by the
10    individual subjects of the information. "Unwarranted
11    invasion of personal privacy" means the disclosure of
12    information that is highly personal or objectionable to a
13    reasonable person and in which the subject's right to
14    privacy outweighs any legitimate public interest in
15    obtaining the information. The disclosure of information
16    that bears on the public duties of public employees and
17    officials shall not be considered an invasion of personal
18    privacy.
19        (d) Records in the possession of any public body
20    created in the course of administrative enforcement
21    proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional
22    agency for law enforcement purposes, but only to the
23    extent that disclosure would:
24            (i) interfere with pending or actually and
25        reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
26        conducted by any law enforcement or correctional

 

 

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1        agency that is the recipient of the request;
2            (ii) interfere with active administrative
3        enforcement proceedings conducted by the public body
4        that is the recipient of the request;
5            (iii) create a substantial likelihood that a
6        person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial
7        hearing;
8            (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
9        confidential source, confidential information
10        furnished only by the confidential source, or persons
11        who file complaints with or provide information to
12        administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or
13        penal agencies; except that the identities of
14        witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
15        reports, and rescue reports shall be provided by
16        agencies of local government, except when disclosure
17        would interfere with an active criminal investigation
18        conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the
19        request;
20            (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
21        techniques other than those generally used and known
22        or disclose internal documents of correctional
23        agencies related to detection, observation, or
24        investigation of incidents of crime or misconduct, and
25        disclosure would result in demonstrable harm to the
26        agency or public body that is the recipient of the

 

 

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1        request;
2            (vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law
3        enforcement personnel or any other person; or
4            (vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation
5        by the agency that is the recipient of the request.
6        (d-5) A law enforcement record created for law
7    enforcement purposes and contained in a shared electronic
8    record management system if the law enforcement agency
9    that is the recipient of the request did not create the
10    record, did not participate in or have a role in any of the
11    events which are the subject of the record, and only has
12    access to the record through the shared electronic record
13    management system.
14        (d-6) Records contained in the Officer Professional
15    Conduct Database under Section 9.2 of the Illinois Police
16    Training Act, except to the extent authorized under that
17    Section. This includes the documents supplied to the
18    Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board from the
19    Illinois State Police and Illinois State Police Merit
20    Board.
21        (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
22    correctional institutions and detention facilities.
23        (e-5) Records requested by persons committed to the
24    Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services
25    Division of Mental Health, or a county jail if those
26    materials are available in the library of the correctional

 

 

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1    institution or facility or jail where the inmate is
2    confined.
3        (e-6) Records requested by persons committed to the
4    Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services
5    Division of Mental Health, or a county jail if those
6    materials include records from staff members' personnel
7    files, staff rosters, or other staffing assignment
8    information.
9        (e-7) Records requested by persons committed to the
10    Department of Corrections or Department of Human Services
11    Division of Mental Health if those materials are available
12    through an administrative request to the Department of
13    Corrections or Department of Human Services Division of
14    Mental Health.
15        (e-8) Records requested by a person committed to the
16    Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services
17    Division of Mental Health, or a county jail, the
18    disclosure of which would result in the risk of harm to any
19    person or the risk of an escape from a jail or correctional
20    institution or facility.
21        (e-9) Records requested by a person in a county jail
22    or committed to the Department of Corrections or
23    Department of Human Services Division of Mental Health,
24    containing personal information pertaining to the person's
25    victim or the victim's family, including, but not limited
26    to, a victim's home address, home telephone number, work

 

 

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1    or school address, work telephone number, social security
2    number, or any other identifying information, except as
3    may be relevant to a requester's current or potential case
4    or claim.
5        (e-10) Law enforcement records of other persons
6    requested by a person committed to the Department of
7    Corrections, Department of Human Services Division of
8    Mental Health, or a county jail, including, but not
9    limited to, arrest and booking records, mug shots, and
10    crime scene photographs, except as these records may be
11    relevant to the requester's current or potential case or
12    claim.
13        (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
14    memoranda, and other records in which opinions are
15    expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
16    that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
17    shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
18    identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
19    provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those
20    records of officers and agencies of the General Assembly
21    that pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
22        (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
23    information obtained from a person or business where the
24    trade secrets or commercial or financial information are
25    furnished under a claim that they are proprietary,
26    privileged, or confidential, and that disclosure of the

 

 

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1    trade secrets or commercial or financial information would
2    cause competitive harm to the person or business, and only
3    insofar as the claim directly applies to the records
4    requested.
5        The information included under this exemption includes
6    all trade secrets and commercial or financial information
7    obtained by a public body, including a public pension
8    fund, from a private equity fund or a privately held
9    company within the investment portfolio of a private
10    equity fund as a result of either investing or evaluating
11    a potential investment of public funds in a private equity
12    fund. The exemption contained in this item does not apply
13    to the aggregate financial performance information of a
14    private equity fund, nor to the identity of the fund's
15    managers or general partners. The exemption contained in
16    this item does not apply to the identity of a privately
17    held company within the investment portfolio of a private
18    equity fund, unless the disclosure of the identity of a
19    privately held company may cause competitive harm.
20        Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be
21    construed to prevent a person or business from consenting
22    to disclosure.
23        (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
24    agreement, including information which if it were
25    disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
26    to any person proposing to enter into a contractor

 

 

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1    agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
2    is made. Information prepared by or for the body in
3    preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
4    award or final selection is made.
5        (i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
6    designs, drawings, and research data obtained or produced
7    by any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
8    expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
9    exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
10    this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by
11    news media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
12    requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
13    purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
14    information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
15    legal rights of the general public.
16        (j) The following information pertaining to
17    educational matters:
18            (i) test questions, scoring keys, and other
19        examination data used to administer an academic
20        examination;
21            (ii) information received by a primary or
22        secondary school, college, or university under its
23        procedures for the evaluation of faculty members by
24        their academic peers;
25            (iii) information concerning a school or
26        university's adjudication of student disciplinary

 

 

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1        cases, but only to the extent that disclosure would
2        unavoidably reveal the identity of the student; and
3            (iv) course materials or research materials used
4        by faculty members.
5        (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
6    submissions, and other construction related technical
7    documents for projects not constructed or developed in
8    whole or in part with public funds and the same for
9    projects constructed or developed with public funds,
10    including, but not limited to, power generating and
11    distribution stations and other transmission and
12    distribution facilities, water treatment facilities,
13    airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention centers,
14    and all government owned, operated, or occupied buildings,
15    but only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
16    security.
17        (l) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
18    public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
19    public body makes the minutes available to the public
20    under Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
21        (m) Communications between a public body and an
22    attorney or auditor representing the public body that
23    would not be subject to discovery in litigation, and
24    materials prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
25    anticipation of a criminal, civil, or administrative
26    proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the

 

 

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1    public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
2    respect to internal audits of public bodies.
3        (n) Records relating to a public body's adjudication
4    of employee grievances or disciplinary cases; however,
5    this exemption shall not extend to the final outcome of
6    cases in which discipline is imposed.
7        (o) Administrative or technical information associated
8    with automated data processing operations, including, but
9    not limited to, software, operating protocols, computer
10    program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
11    modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
12    pertaining to all logical and physical design of
13    computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
14    information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
15    security of the system or its data or the security of
16    materials exempt under this Section.
17        (p) Records relating to collective negotiating matters
18    between public bodies and their employees or
19    representatives, except that any final contract or
20    agreement shall be subject to inspection and copying.
21        (q) Test questions, scoring keys, and other
22    examination data used to determine the qualifications of
23    an applicant for a license or employment.
24        (r) The records, documents, and information relating
25    to real estate purchase negotiations until those
26    negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.

 

 

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1    With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
2    and reasonably contemplated eminent domain proceeding
3    under the Eminent Domain Act, records, documents, and
4    information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except
5    as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
6    Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents, and
7    information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
8    until a sale is consummated.
9        (s) Any and all proprietary information and records
10    related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
11    management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
12    self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
13    Insurance or self-insurance self insurance (including any
14    intergovernmental risk management association or
15    self-insurance self insurance pool) claims, loss or risk
16    management information, records, data, advice, or
17    communications.
18        (t) Information contained in or related to
19    examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
20    on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
21    for the regulation or supervision of financial
22    institutions, insurance companies, or pharmacy benefit
23    managers, unless disclosure is otherwise required by State
24    law.
25        (u) Information that would disclose or might lead to
26    the disclosure of secret or confidential information,

 

 

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1    codes, algorithms, programs, or private keys intended to
2    be used to create electronic signatures under the Uniform
3    Electronic Transactions Act.
4        (v) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
5    response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
6    prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a
7    community's population or systems, facilities, or
8    installations, but only to the extent that disclosure
9    could reasonably be expected to expose the vulnerability
10    or jeopardize the effectiveness of the measures, policies,
11    or plans, or the safety of the personnel who implement
12    them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
13    include such things as details pertaining to the
14    mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
15    the operation of communication systems or protocols, to
16    cybersecurity vulnerabilities, or to tactical operations.
17        (w) (Blank).
18        (x) Maps and other records regarding the location or
19    security of generation, transmission, distribution,
20    storage, gathering, treatment, or switching facilities
21    owned by a utility, by a power generator, or by the
22    Illinois Power Agency.
23        (y) Information contained in or related to proposals,
24    bids, or negotiations related to electric power
25    procurement under Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power
26    Agency Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities

 

 

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1    Act that is determined to be confidential and proprietary
2    by the Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce
3    Commission.
4        (z) Information about students exempted from
5    disclosure under Section Sections 10-20.38 or 34-18.29 of
6    the School Code, and information about undergraduate
7    students enrolled at an institution of higher education
8    exempted from disclosure under Section 25 of the Illinois
9    Credit Card Marketing Act of 2009.
10        (aa) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
11    under the Viatical Settlements Act of 2009.
12        (bb) Records and information provided to a mortality
13    review team and records maintained by a mortality review
14    team appointed under the Department of Juvenile Justice
15    Mortality Review Team Act.
16        (cc) Information regarding interments, entombments, or
17    inurnments of human remains that are submitted to the
18    Cemetery Oversight Database under the Cemetery Care Act or
19    the Cemetery Oversight Act, whichever is applicable.
20        (dd) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
21    disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Illinois Public Aid
22    Code or (ii) that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of
23    the Illinois Public Aid Code.
24        (ee) The names, addresses, or other personal
25    information of persons who are minors and are also
26    participants and registrants in programs of park

 

 

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1    districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
2    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
3    associations.
4        (ff) The names, addresses, or other personal
5    information of participants and registrants in programs of
6    park districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
7    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
8    associations where such programs are targeted primarily to
9    minors.
10        (gg) Confidential information described in Section
11    1-100 of the Illinois Independent Tax Tribunal Act of
12    2012.
13        (hh) The report submitted to the State Board of
14    Education by the School Security and Standards Task Force
15    under item (8) of subsection (d) of Section 2-3.160 of the
16    School Code and any information contained in that report.
17        (ii) Records requested by persons committed to or
18    detained by the Department of Human Services under the
19    Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act or committed to
20    the Department of Corrections under the Sexually Dangerous
21    Persons Act if those materials: (i) are available in the
22    library of the facility where the individual is confined;
23    (ii) include records from staff members' personnel files,
24    staff rosters, or other staffing assignment information;
25    or (iii) are available through an administrative request
26    to the Department of Human Services or the Department of

 

 

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1    Corrections.
2        (jj) Confidential information described in Section
3    5-535 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
4        (kk) The public body's credit card numbers, debit card
5    numbers, bank account numbers, Federal Employer
6    Identification Number, security code numbers, passwords,
7    and similar account information, the disclosure of which
8    could result in identity theft or impression or defrauding
9    of a governmental entity or a person.
10        (ll) Records concerning the work of the threat
11    assessment team of a school district, including, but not
12    limited to, any threat assessment procedure under the
13    School Safety Drill Act and any information contained in
14    the procedure.
15        (mm) Information prohibited from being disclosed under
16    subsections (a) and (b) of Section 15 of the Student
17    Confidential Reporting Act.
18        (nn) (mm) Proprietary information submitted to the
19    Environmental Protection Agency under the Drug Take-Back
20    Act.
21        (oo) (mm) Records described in subsection (f) of
22    Section 3-5-1 of the Unified Code of Corrections.
23    (1.5) Any information exempt from disclosure under the
24Judicial Privacy Act shall be redacted from public records
25prior to disclosure under this Act.
26    (2) A public record that is not in the possession of a

 

 

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1public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the
2agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on
3behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the
4governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this
5Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body,
6for purposes of this Act.
7    (3) This Section does not authorize withholding of
8information or limit the availability of records to the
9public, except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided
10in this Act.
11(Source: P.A. 101-434, eff. 1-1-20; 101-452, eff. 1-1-20;
12101-455, eff. 8-23-19; 101-652, eff. 1-1-22; 102-38, eff.
136-25-21; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21; 102-694, eff. 1-7-22; 102-752,
14eff. 5-6-22; 102-753, eff. 1-1-23; 102-776, eff. 1-1-23;
15102-791, eff. 5-13-22; 102-1055, eff. 6-10-22; revised
1612-13-22.)
 
17    (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 102-982)
18    Sec. 7. Exemptions.
19    (1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public
20record that contains information that is exempt from
21disclosure under this Section, but also contains information
22that is not exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect
23to redact the information that is exempt. The public body
24shall make the remaining information available for inspection
25and copying. Subject to this requirement, the following shall

 

 

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1be exempt from inspection and copying:
2        (a) Information specifically prohibited from
3    disclosure by federal or State law or rules and
4    regulations implementing federal or State law.
5        (b) Private information, unless disclosure is required
6    by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law,
7    or a court order.
8        (b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases
9    maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and
10    specifically designed to provide information to one or
11    more law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or
12    mental status of one or more individual subjects.
13        (c) Personal information contained within public
14    records, the disclosure of which would constitute a
15    clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless
16    the disclosure is consented to in writing by the
17    individual subjects of the information. "Unwarranted
18    invasion of personal privacy" means the disclosure of
19    information that is highly personal or objectionable to a
20    reasonable person and in which the subject's right to
21    privacy outweighs any legitimate public interest in
22    obtaining the information. The disclosure of information
23    that bears on the public duties of public employees and
24    officials shall not be considered an invasion of personal
25    privacy.
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1    created in the course of administrative enforcement
2    proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional
3    agency for law enforcement purposes, but only to the
4    extent that disclosure would:
5            (i) interfere with pending or actually and
6        reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
7        conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
8        agency that is the recipient of the request;
9            (ii) interfere with active administrative
10        enforcement proceedings conducted by the public body
11        that is the recipient of the request;
12            (iii) create a substantial likelihood that a
13        person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial
14        hearing;
15            (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
16        confidential source, confidential information
17        furnished only by the confidential source, or persons
18        who file complaints with or provide information to
19        administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or
20        penal agencies; except that the identities of
21        witnesses to traffic crashes, traffic crash reports,
22        and rescue reports shall be provided by agencies of
23        local government, except when disclosure would
24        interfere with an active criminal investigation
25        conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the
26        request;

 

 

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1            (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
2        techniques other than those generally used and known
3        or disclose internal documents of correctional
4        agencies related to detection, observation, or
5        investigation of incidents of crime or misconduct, and
6        disclosure would result in demonstrable harm to the
7        agency or public body that is the recipient of the
8        request;
9            (vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law
10        enforcement personnel or any other person; or
11            (vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation
12        by the agency that is the recipient of the request.
13        (d-5) A law enforcement record created for law
14    enforcement purposes and contained in a shared electronic
15    record management system if the law enforcement agency
16    that is the recipient of the request did not create the
17    record, did not participate in or have a role in any of the
18    events which are the subject of the record, and only has
19    access to the record through the shared electronic record
20    management system.
21        (d-6) Records contained in the Officer Professional
22    Conduct Database under Section 9.2 of the Illinois Police
23    Training Act, except to the extent authorized under that
24    Section. This includes the documents supplied to the
25    Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board from the
26    Illinois State Police and Illinois State Police Merit

 

 

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1    Board.
2        (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
3    correctional institutions and detention facilities.
4        (e-5) Records requested by persons committed to the
5    Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services
6    Division of Mental Health, or a county jail if those
7    materials are available in the library of the correctional
8    institution or facility or jail where the inmate is
9    confined.
10        (e-6) Records requested by persons committed to the
11    Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services
12    Division of Mental Health, or a county jail if those
13    materials include records from staff members' personnel
14    files, staff rosters, or other staffing assignment
15    information.
16        (e-7) Records requested by persons committed to the
17    Department of Corrections or Department of Human Services
18    Division of Mental Health if those materials are available
19    through an administrative request to the Department of
20    Corrections or Department of Human Services Division of
21    Mental Health.
22        (e-8) Records requested by a person committed to the
23    Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services
24    Division of Mental Health, or a county jail, the
25    disclosure of which would result in the risk of harm to any
26    person or the risk of an escape from a jail or correctional

 

 

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1    institution or facility.
2        (e-9) Records requested by a person in a county jail
3    or committed to the Department of Corrections or
4    Department of Human Services Division of Mental Health,
5    containing personal information pertaining to the person's
6    victim or the victim's family, including, but not limited
7    to, a victim's home address, home telephone number, work
8    or school address, work telephone number, social security
9    number, or any other identifying information, except as
10    may be relevant to a requester's current or potential case
11    or claim.
12        (e-10) Law enforcement records of other persons
13    requested by a person committed to the Department of
14    Corrections, Department of Human Services Division of
15    Mental Health, or a county jail, including, but not
16    limited to, arrest and booking records, mug shots, and
17    crime scene photographs, except as these records may be
18    relevant to the requester's current or potential case or
19    claim.
20        (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
21    memoranda, and other records in which opinions are
22    expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
23    that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
24    shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
25    identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
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1    records of officers and agencies of the General Assembly
2    that pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
3        (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
4    information obtained from a person or business where the
5    trade secrets or commercial or financial information are
6    furnished under a claim that they are proprietary,
7    privileged, or confidential, and that disclosure of the
8    trade secrets or commercial or financial information would
9    cause competitive harm to the person or business, and only
10    insofar as the claim directly applies to the records
11    requested.
12        The information included under this exemption includes
13    all trade secrets and commercial or financial information
14    obtained by a public body, including a public pension
15    fund, from a private equity fund or a privately held
16    company within the investment portfolio of a private
17    equity fund as a result of either investing or evaluating
18    a potential investment of public funds in a private equity
19    fund. The exemption contained in this item does not apply
20    to the aggregate financial performance information of a
21    private equity fund, nor to the identity of the fund's
22    managers or general partners. The exemption contained in
23    this item does not apply to the identity of a privately
24    held company within the investment portfolio of a private
25    equity fund, unless the disclosure of the identity of a
26    privately held company may cause competitive harm.

 

 

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1        Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be
2    construed to prevent a person or business from consenting
3    to disclosure.
4        (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
5    agreement, including information which if it were
6    disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
7    to any person proposing to enter into a contractor
8    agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
9    is made. Information prepared by or for the body in
10    preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
11    award or final selection is made.
12        (i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
13    designs, drawings, and research data obtained or produced
14    by any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
15    expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
16    exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
17    this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by
18    news media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
19    requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
20    purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
21    information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
22    legal rights of the general public.
23        (j) The following information pertaining to
24    educational matters:
25            (i) test questions, scoring keys, and other
26        examination data used to administer an academic

 

 

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1        examination;
2            (ii) information received by a primary or
3        secondary school, college, or university under its
4        procedures for the evaluation of faculty members by
5        their academic peers;
6            (iii) information concerning a school or
7        university's adjudication of student disciplinary
8        cases, but only to the extent that disclosure would
9        unavoidably reveal the identity of the student; and
10            (iv) course materials or research materials used
11        by faculty members.
12        (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
13    submissions, and other construction related technical
14    documents for projects not constructed or developed in
15    whole or in part with public funds and the same for
16    projects constructed or developed with public funds,
17    including, but not limited to, power generating and
18    distribution stations and other transmission and
19    distribution facilities, water treatment facilities,
20    airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention centers,
21    and all government owned, operated, or occupied buildings,
22    but only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
23    security.
24        (l) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
25    public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
26    public body makes the minutes available to the public

 

 

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1    under Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
2        (m) Communications between a public body and an
3    attorney or auditor representing the public body that
4    would not be subject to discovery in litigation, and
5    materials prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
6    anticipation of a criminal, civil, or administrative
7    proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
8    public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
9    respect to internal audits of public bodies.
10        (n) Records relating to a public body's adjudication
11    of employee grievances or disciplinary cases; however,
12    this exemption shall not extend to the final outcome of
13    cases in which discipline is imposed.
14        (o) Administrative or technical information associated
15    with automated data processing operations, including, but
16    not limited to, software, operating protocols, computer
17    program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
18    modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
19    pertaining to all logical and physical design of
20    computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
21    information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
22    security of the system or its data or the security of
23    materials exempt under this Section.
24        (p) Records relating to collective negotiating matters
25    between public bodies and their employees or
26    representatives, except that any final contract or

 

 

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1    agreement shall be subject to inspection and copying.
2        (q) Test questions, scoring keys, and other
3    examination data used to determine the qualifications of
4    an applicant for a license or employment.
5        (r) The records, documents, and information relating
6    to real estate purchase negotiations until those
7    negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
8    With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
9    and reasonably contemplated eminent domain proceeding
10    under the Eminent Domain Act, records, documents, and
11    information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except
12    as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
13    Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents, and
14    information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
15    until a sale is consummated.
16        (s) Any and all proprietary information and records
17    related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
18    management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
19    self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
20    Insurance or self-insurance self insurance (including any
21    intergovernmental risk management association or
22    self-insurance self insurance pool) claims, loss or risk
23    management information, records, data, advice, or
24    communications.
25        (t) Information contained in or related to
26    examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,

 

 

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1    on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
2    for the regulation or supervision of financial
3    institutions, insurance companies, or pharmacy benefit
4    managers, unless disclosure is otherwise required by State
5    law.
6        (u) Information that would disclose or might lead to
7    the disclosure of secret or confidential information,
8    codes, algorithms, programs, or private keys intended to
9    be used to create electronic signatures under the Uniform
10    Electronic Transactions Act.
11        (v) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
12    response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
13    prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a
14    community's population or systems, facilities, or
15    installations, but only to the extent that disclosure
16    could reasonably be expected to expose the vulnerability
17    or jeopardize the effectiveness of the measures, policies,
18    or plans, or the safety of the personnel who implement
19    them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
20    include such things as details pertaining to the
21    mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
22    the operation of communication systems or protocols, to
23    cybersecurity vulnerabilities, or to tactical operations.
24        (w) (Blank).
25        (x) Maps and other records regarding the location or
26    security of generation, transmission, distribution,

 

 

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1    storage, gathering, treatment, or switching facilities
2    owned by a utility, by a power generator, or by the
3    Illinois Power Agency.
4        (y) Information contained in or related to proposals,
5    bids, or negotiations related to electric power
6    procurement under Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power
7    Agency Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities
8    Act that is determined to be confidential and proprietary
9    by the Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce
10    Commission.
11        (z) Information about students exempted from
12    disclosure under Section Sections 10-20.38 or 34-18.29 of
13    the School Code, and information about undergraduate
14    students enrolled at an institution of higher education
15    exempted from disclosure under Section 25 of the Illinois
16    Credit Card Marketing Act of 2009.
17        (aa) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
18    under the Viatical Settlements Act of 2009.
19        (bb) Records and information provided to a mortality
20    review team and records maintained by a mortality review
21    team appointed under the Department of Juvenile Justice
22    Mortality Review Team Act.
23        (cc) Information regarding interments, entombments, or
24    inurnments of human remains that are submitted to the
25    Cemetery Oversight Database under the Cemetery Care Act or
26    the Cemetery Oversight Act, whichever is applicable.

 

 

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1        (dd) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
2    disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Illinois Public Aid
3    Code or (ii) that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of
4    the Illinois Public Aid Code.
5        (ee) The names, addresses, or other personal
6    information of persons who are minors and are also
7    participants and registrants in programs of park
8    districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
9    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
10    associations.
11        (ff) The names, addresses, or other personal
12    information of participants and registrants in programs of
13    park districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
14    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
15    associations where such programs are targeted primarily to
16    minors.
17        (gg) Confidential information described in Section
18    1-100 of the Illinois Independent Tax Tribunal Act of
19    2012.
20        (hh) The report submitted to the State Board of
21    Education by the School Security and Standards Task Force
22    under item (8) of subsection (d) of Section 2-3.160 of the
23    School Code and any information contained in that report.
24        (ii) Records requested by persons committed to or
25    detained by the Department of Human Services under the
26    Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act or committed to

 

 

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1    the Department of Corrections under the Sexually Dangerous
2    Persons Act if those materials: (i) are available in the
3    library of the facility where the individual is confined;
4    (ii) include records from staff members' personnel files,
5    staff rosters, or other staffing assignment information;
6    or (iii) are available through an administrative request
7    to the Department of Human Services or the Department of
8    Corrections.
9        (jj) Confidential information described in Section
10    5-535 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
11        (kk) The public body's credit card numbers, debit card
12    numbers, bank account numbers, Federal Employer
13    Identification Number, security code numbers, passwords,
14    and similar account information, the disclosure of which
15    could result in identity theft or impression or defrauding
16    of a governmental entity or a person.
17        (ll) Records concerning the work of the threat
18    assessment team of a school district, including, but not
19    limited to, any threat assessment procedure under the
20    School Safety Drill Act and any information contained in
21    the procedure.
22        (mm) Information prohibited from being disclosed under
23    subsections (a) and (b) of Section 15 of the Student
24    Confidential Reporting Act.
25        (nn) (mm) Proprietary information submitted to the
26    Environmental Protection Agency under the Drug Take-Back

 

 

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1    Act.
2        (oo) (mm) Records described in subsection (f) of
3    Section 3-5-1 of the Unified Code of Corrections.
4        (pp) Information obtained by a certified local health
5    department under the Access to Public Health Data Act.
6    (1.5) Any information exempt from disclosure under the
7Judicial Privacy Act shall be redacted from public records
8prior to disclosure under this Act.
9    (2) A public record that is not in the possession of a
10public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the
11agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on
12behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the
13governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this
14Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body,
15for purposes of this Act.
16    (3) This Section does not authorize withholding of
17information or limit the availability of records to the
18public, except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided
19in this Act.
20(Source: P.A. 101-434, eff. 1-1-20; 101-452, eff. 1-1-20;
21101-455, eff. 8-23-19; 101-652, eff. 1-1-22; 102-38, eff.
226-25-21; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21; 102-694, eff. 1-7-22; 102-752,
23eff. 5-6-22; 102-753, eff. 1-1-23; 102-776, eff. 1-1-23;
24102-791, eff. 5-13-22; 102-982, eff. 7-1-23; 102-1055, eff.
256-10-22; revised 12-13-22.)
 

 

 

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1    Section 905. The Vital Records Act is amended by changing
2Section 24 as follows:
 
3    (410 ILCS 535/24)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-24)
4    Sec. 24. (1) To protect the integrity of vital records, to
5insure their proper use, and to insure the efficient and
6proper administration of the vital records system, access to
7vital records, and indexes thereof, including vital records in
8the custody of local registrars and county clerks originating
9prior to January 1, 1916, is limited to the custodian and his
10employees, and then only for administrative purposes, except
11that the indexes of those records in the custody of local
12registrars and county clerks, originating prior to January 1,
131916, shall be made available to persons for the purpose of
14genealogical research. Original, photographic or
15microphotographic reproductions of original records of births
16100 years old and older and deaths 50 years old and older, and
17marriage records 75 years old and older on file in the State
18Office of Vital Records and in the custody of the county clerks
19may be made available for inspection in the Illinois State
20Archives reference area, Illinois Regional Archives
21Depositories, and other libraries approved by the Illinois
22State Registrar and the Director of the Illinois State
23Archives, provided that the photographic or microphotographic
24copies are made at no cost to the county or to the State of
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1inspection of, or to disclose information contained in, vital
2records, or to copy or permit to be copied, all or part of any
3such record except as authorized by this Act or regulations
4adopted pursuant thereto.
5    (2) The State Registrar of Vital Records, or his agent,
6and any municipal, county, multi-county, public health
7district, or regional health officer recognized by the
8Department may examine vital records for the purpose only of
9carrying out the public health programs and responsibilities
10under his jurisdiction.
11    (3) The State Registrar of Vital Records, may disclose, or
12authorize the disclosure of, data contained in the vital
13records when deemed essential for bona fide research purposes
14which are not for private gain.
15    This amendatory Act of 1973 does not apply to any home rule
16unit.
17    (4) The State Registrar shall exchange with the Department
18of Healthcare and Family Services information that may be
19necessary for the establishment of paternity and the
20establishment, modification, and enforcement of child support
21orders entered pursuant to the Illinois Public Aid Code, the
22Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the
23Non-Support of Spouse and Children Act, the Non-Support
24Punishment Act, the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of
25Support Act, the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, the
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1of 2015. Notwithstanding any provisions in this Act to the
2contrary, the State Registrar shall not be liable to any
3person for any disclosure of information to the Department of
4Healthcare and Family Services (formerly Illinois Department
5of Public Aid) under this subsection or for any other action
6taken in good faith to comply with the requirements of this
7subsection.
8    (5) No rule adopted by the Department shall be construed,
9either explicitly or implicitly, as restricting access to
10vital records by any municipality, county, multicounty, public
11health district, or regional health officer recognized by the
12Department for the purposes described in subsections (2) and
13(3).
14(Source: P.A. 99-85, eff. 1-1-16.)
 
15    Section 995. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act
16makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by
17text that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a
18Section represented by multiple versions), the use of that
19text does not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the
20changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any
21other Public Act.".