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1    AN ACT concerning children.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act is
5amended by changing Section 20 as follows:
 
6    (325 ILCS 2/20)
7    Sec. 20. Procedures with respect to relinquished newborn
8infants.
9    (a) Hospitals. Every hospital must accept and provide all
10necessary emergency services and care to a relinquished
11newborn infant, in accordance with this Act. The hospital
12shall examine a relinquished newborn infant and perform tests
13that, based on reasonable medical judgment, are appropriate in
14evaluating whether the relinquished newborn infant was abused
15or neglected.
16    The act of relinquishing a newborn infant serves as
17implied consent for the hospital and its medical personnel and
18physicians on staff to treat and provide care for the infant.
19    The hospital shall be deemed to have temporary protective
20custody of a relinquished newborn infant until the infant is
21discharged to the custody of a child welfare agency or the
22Department. The hospital shall provide all available medical
23records and information to the Department and the child

 

 

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1welfare agency that has accepted the referral of the infant in
2accordance with Section 50.
3    If the person who relinquished or a person claiming to be
4the parent of a newborn infant returns to reclaim the infant
5within 30 days after the infant was relinquished to a
6hospital, the hospital must inform such person of the name and
7contact information of the child welfare agency to whom
8custody of the infant was transferred.
9    (b) Fire stations and emergency medical facilities. Every
10fire station and emergency medical facility must accept and
11provide all necessary emergency services and care to a
12relinquished newborn infant, in accordance with this Act.
13    The act of relinquishing a newborn infant serves as
14implied consent for the fire station or emergency medical
15facility and its emergency medical professionals to treat and
16provide care for the infant, to the extent that those
17emergency medical professionals are trained to provide those
18services.
19    After the relinquishment of a newborn infant to a fire
20station or emergency medical facility, the fire station or
21emergency medical facility's personnel must arrange for the
22transportation of the infant to the nearest hospital as soon
23as transportation can be arranged.
24    If the person who relinquished or a person claiming to be
25the parent of a newborn infant returns to reclaim the infant
26within 30 days after the infant was relinquished to a fire

 

 

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1station or emergency medical facility, the fire station or
2emergency medical facility must inform such person of the name
3and location of the hospital to which the infant was
4transported.
5    (c) Police stations. Every police station must accept a
6relinquished newborn infant, in accordance with this Act.
7After the relinquishment of a newborn infant to a police
8station, the police station must arrange for the
9transportation of the infant to the nearest hospital as soon
10as transportation can be arranged. The act of relinquishing a
11newborn infant serves as implied consent for the hospital to
12which the infant is transported and that hospital's medical
13personnel and physicians on staff to treat and provide care
14for the infant.
15    If the person who relinquished or a person claiming to be
16the parent of a newborn infant returns to reclaim the infant
17within 30 days after the infant was relinquished to a police
18station, the police station must inform such person of the
19name and location of the hospital to which the infant was
20transported.
21(Source: P.A. 103-501, eff. 1-1-24.)