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1     AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
5 Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing
6 Sections 4.3 and 70 as follows:
 
7     (20 ILCS 1705/4.3)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-4.3)
8     Sec. 4.3. Site visits and inspections.
9     (a) (Blank).
10     (b) The Department shall establish a system of regular and
11 ongoing annual on-site inspections that shall occur at least
12 annually of each facility under its jurisdiction. The
13 inspections shall be conducted by the Department's central
14 office to:
15         (1) Determine facility compliance with Department
16     policies and procedures;
17         (2) Determine facility compliance with audit
18     recommendations;
19         (3) Evaluate facility compliance with applicable
20     federal standards;
21         (4) Review and follow up on complaints made by
22     community mental health agencies and advocates, and on
23     findings of the Human Rights Authority division of the

 

 

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1     Guardianship and Advocacy Commission; and
2         (5) Review administrative and management problems
3     identified by other sources; and .
4         (6) Identify and prevent abuse and neglect.
5 (Source: P.A. 92-111, eff. 1-1-02.)
 
6     (20 ILCS 1705/70)
7     Sec. 70. Monitoring by closed circuit television. The
8 Department of Human Services as successor to the Department of
9 Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities may install
10 closed circuit televisions in quiet rooms in institutions
11 supervised or operated by the Department to monitor patients in
12 those quiet rooms. The Department shall study current and
13 potential uses of electronic monitoring and recording for the
14 purpose of preventing and identifying abuse and neglect within
15 State-operated developmental centers and developmental
16 disabilities services programs funded, certified, or licensed
17 by the Department of Human Services but not those centers or
18 programs licensed by another State agency, and shall report to
19 the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2008, with
20 recommendations on the feasibility of increasing utilization
21 of electronic monitoring and recording for purposes of
22 preventing and identifying abuse and neglect. Nothing in this
23 Section shall be construed to supersede or interfere with any
24 current provisions in the Mental Health and Developmental
25 Disabilities Code concerning the observation and monitoring of

 

 

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1 patients.
2 (Source: P.A. 90-444, eff. 8-16-97; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)