Rep. Patricia R. Bellock

Filed: 3/26/2009

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2845

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2845 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
5 Disabilities Confidentiality Act is amended by changing
6 Section 11 as follows:
 
7     (740 ILCS 110/11)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 811)
8     Sec. 11. Disclosure of records and communications. Records
9 and communications may be disclosed:
10         (i) in accordance with the provisions of the Abused and
11     Neglected Child Reporting Act, subsection (u) of Section 5
12     of the Children and Family Services Act, or Section 7.4 of
13     the Child Care Act of 1969;
14         (ii) when, and to the extent, a therapist, in his or
15     her sole discretion, determines that disclosure is
16     necessary to initiate or continue civil commitment or

 

 

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1     involuntary treatment proceedings under the laws of this
2     State or to otherwise protect the recipient or other person
3     against a clear, imminent risk of serious physical or
4     mental injury or disease or death being inflicted upon the
5     recipient or by the recipient on himself or another;
6         (iii) when, and to the extent disclosure is, in the
7     sole discretion of the therapist, necessary to the
8     provision of emergency medical care to a recipient who is
9     unable to assert or waive his or her rights hereunder;
10         (iv) when disclosure is necessary to collect sums or
11     receive third party payment representing charges for
12     mental health or developmental disabilities services
13     provided by a therapist or agency to a recipient under
14     Chapter V of the Mental Health and Developmental
15     Disabilities Code or to transfer debts under the
16     Uncollected State Claims Act; however, disclosure shall be
17     limited to information needed to pursue collection, and the
18     information so disclosed shall not be used for any other
19     purposes nor shall it be redisclosed except in connection
20     with collection activities;
21         (v) when requested by a family member, the Department
22     of Human Services may assist in the location of the
23     interment site of a deceased recipient who is interred in a
24     cemetery established under Section 100-26 of the Mental
25     Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act;
26         (vi) in judicial proceedings under Article VIII of

 

 

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1     Chapter III and Article V of Chapter IV of the Mental
2     Health and Developmental Disabilities Code and proceedings
3     and investigations preliminary thereto, to the State's
4     Attorney for the county or residence of a person who is the
5     subject of such proceedings, or in which the person is
6     found, or in which the facility is located, to the attorney
7     representing the recipient in the judicial proceedings, to
8     any person or agency providing mental health services that
9     are the subject of the proceedings and to that person's or
10     agency's attorney, to any court personnel, including but
11     not limited to judges and circuit court clerks, and to a
12     guardian ad litem if one has been appointed by the court,
13     provided that the information so disclosed shall not be
14     utilized for any other purpose nor be redisclosed except in
15     connection with the proceedings or investigations;
16         (vii) when, and to the extent disclosure is necessary
17     to comply with the requirements of the Census Bureau in
18     taking the federal Decennial Census;
19         (viii) when, and to the extent, in the therapist's sole
20     discretion, disclosure is necessary to warn or protect a
21     specific individual against whom a recipient has made a
22     specific threat of violence where there exists a
23     therapist-recipient relationship or a special
24     recipient-individual relationship;
25         (ix) in accordance with the Sex Offender Registration
26     Act;

 

 

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1         (x) in accordance with the Rights of Crime Victims and
2     Witnesses Act;
3         (xi) in accordance with Section 6 of the Abused and
4     Neglected Long Term Care Facility Residents Reporting Act;
5     and
6         (xii) in accordance with Section 55 of the Abuse of
7     Adults with Disabilities Intervention Act.
8     Any person, institution, or agency, under this Act,
9 participating in good faith in the making of a report under the
10 Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act or in the disclosure
11 of records and communications under this Section, shall have
12 immunity from any liability, civil, criminal or otherwise, that
13 might result by reason of such action. For the purpose of any
14 proceeding, civil or criminal, arising out of a report or
15 disclosure under this Section, the good faith of any person,
16 institution, or agency so reporting or disclosing shall be
17 presumed.
18 (Source: P.A. 94-852, eff. 6-13-06; 94-1010, eff. 10-1-06;
19 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
 
20     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
21 becoming law.".