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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
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 Administrative Act is amended by changing Section
614 as follows:
 
7    (20 ILCS 1705/14)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-14)
8    Sec. 14. Chester Mental Health Center. To maintain and
9operate a facility for the care, custody, and treatment of
10persons with mental illness or habilitation of persons with
11developmental disabilities hereinafter designated, to be known
12as the Chester Mental Health Center.
13    Within the Chester Mental Health Center there shall be
14confined the following classes of persons, whose history, in
15the opinion of the Department, discloses dangerous or violent
16tendencies and who, upon examination under the direction of the
17Department, have been found a fit subject for confinement in
18that facility:
19        (a) Any male person who is charged with the commission
20    of a crime but has been acquitted by reason of insanity as
21    provided in Section 5-2-4 of the Unified Code of
22    Corrections.
23        (b) Any male person who is charged with the commission

 

 

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1    of a crime but has been found unfit under Article 104 of
2    the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963.
3        (c) Any male person with mental illness or
4    developmental disabilities or person in need of mental
5    treatment now confined under the supervision of the
6    Department or hereafter admitted to any facility thereof or
7    committed thereto by any court of competent jurisdiction.
8    If and when it shall appear to the facility director of the
9Chester Mental Health Center that it is necessary to confine
10persons in order to maintain security or provide for the
11protection and safety of recipients and staff, the Chester
12Mental Health Center may confine all persons on a unit to their
13rooms. This period of confinement shall not exceed 10 hours in
14a 24 hour period, including the recipient's scheduled hours of
15sleep, unless approved by the Secretary of the Department.
16During the period of confinement, the persons confined shall be
17observed at least every 15 minutes. A record shall be kept of
18the observations. This confinement shall not be considered
19seclusion as defined in the Mental Health and Developmental
20Disabilities Code.
21    The facility director of the Chester Mental Health Center
22may authorize the temporary use of handcuffs on a recipient for
23a period not to exceed 10 minutes when necessary in the course
24of transport of the recipient within the facility to maintain
25custody or security. Use of handcuffs is subject to the
26provisions of Section 2-108 of the Mental Health and

 

 

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1Developmental Disabilities Code. The facility shall keep a
2monthly record listing each instance in which handcuffs are
3used, circumstances indicating the need for use of handcuffs,
4and time of application of handcuffs and time of release
5therefrom. The facility director shall allow the Illinois
6Guardianship and Advocacy Commission, the agency designated by
7the Governor under Section 1 of the Protection and Advocacy for
8Developmentally Disabled Persons Act, and the Department to
9examine and copy such record upon request.
10    If and when it shall appear to the satisfaction of the
11Department that any person confined in the Chester Mental
12Health Center is not or has ceased to be such a source of
13danger to the public as to require his subjection to the
14regimen of the center, the Department is hereby authorized to
15transfer such person to any State facility for treatment of
16persons with mental illness or habilitation of persons with
17developmental disabilities, as the nature of the individual
18case may require.
19    Subject to the provisions of this Section, the Department,
20except where otherwise provided by law, shall, with respect to
21the management, conduct and control of the Chester Mental
22Health Center and the discipline, custody and treatment of the
23persons confined therein, have and exercise the same rights and
24powers as are vested by law in the Department with respect to
25any and all of the State facilities for treatment of persons
26with mental illness or habilitation of persons with

 

 

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1developmental disabilities, and the recipients thereof, and
2shall be subject to the same duties as are imposed by law upon
3the Department with respect to such facilities and the
4recipients thereof.
5    The Department may elect to place persons who have been
6ordered by the court to be detained under the Sexually Violent
7Persons Commitment Act in a distinct portion of the Chester
8Mental Health Center. The persons so placed shall be separated
9and shall not comingle with the recipients of the Chester
10Mental Health Center. The portion of Chester Mental Health
11Center that is used for the persons detained under the Sexually
12Violent Persons Commitment Act shall not be a part of the
13mental health facility for the enforcement and implementation
14of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code nor
15shall their care and treatment be subject to the provisions of
16the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. The
17changes added to this Section by this amendatory Act of the
1898th General Assembly are inoperative on and after June 30,
192015.
20(Source: P.A. 91-559, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
21    Section 10. The Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act is
22amended by changing Section 30 as follows:
 
23    (725 ILCS 207/30)
24    Sec. 30. Detention; probable cause hearing; transfer for

 

 

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1examination.
2    (a) Upon the filing of a petition under Section 15 of this
3Act, the court shall review the petition to determine whether
4to issue an order for detention of the person who is the
5subject of the petition. The person shall be detained only if
6there is cause to believe that the person is eligible for
7commitment under subsection (f) of Section 35 of this Act. A
8person detained under this Section shall be held in a facility
9approved by the Department. The Department may elect to place
10persons who have been ordered by the court to be detained in a
11State-operated mental health facility or a portion of that
12facility. Persons placed in a State-operated mental health
13facility under this Act shall be separated and shall not
14comingle with the recipients of the mental health facility. The
15portion of a State-operated mental health facility that is used
16for the persons detained under this Act shall not be a part of
17the mental health facility for the enforcement and
18implementation of the Mental Health and Developmental
19Disabilities Code nor shall their care and treatment be subject
20to the provisions of the Mental Health and Developmental
21Disabilities Code. The changes added to this Section by this
22amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly are inoperative on
23and after June 30, 2015. If the person is serving a sentence of
24imprisonment, is in a Department of Corrections correctional
25facility or juvenile correctional facility or is committed to
26institutional care, and the court orders detention under this

 

 

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1Section, the court shall order that the person be transferred
2to a detention facility approved by the Department. A detention
3order under this Section remains in effect until the person is
4discharged after a trial under Section 35 of this Act or until
5the effective date of a commitment order under Section 40 of
6this Act, whichever is applicable.
7    (b) Whenever a petition is filed under Section 15 of this
8Act, the court shall hold a hearing to determine whether there
9is probable cause to believe that the person named in the
10petition is a sexually violent person. If the person named in
11the petition is in custody, the court shall hold the probable
12cause hearing within 72 hours after the petition is filed,
13excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. The court may
14grant a continuance of the probable cause hearing for no more
15than 7 additional days upon the motion of the respondent, for
16good cause. If the person named in the petition has been
17released, is on parole, is on mandatory supervised release, or
18otherwise is not in custody, the court shall hold the probable
19cause hearing within a reasonable time after the filing of the
20petition. At the probable cause hearing, the court shall admit
21and consider all relevant hearsay evidence.
22    (c) If the court determines after a hearing that there is
23probable cause to believe that the person named in the petition
24is a sexually violent person, the court shall order that the
25person be taken into custody if he or she is not in custody and
26shall order the person to be transferred within a reasonable

 

 

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1time to an appropriate facility for an evaluation as to whether
2the person is a sexually violent person. If the person who is
3named in the petition refuses to speak to, communicate with, or
4otherwise fails to cooperate with the examining evaluator from
5the Department of Human Services or the Department of
6Corrections, that person may only introduce evidence and
7testimony from any expert or professional person who is
8retained or court-appointed to conduct an examination of the
9person that results from a review of the records and may not
10introduce evidence resulting from an examination of the person.
11Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10 of the Mental
12Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act, all
13evaluations conducted pursuant to this Act and all Illinois
14Department of Corrections treatment records shall be
15admissible at all proceedings held pursuant to this Act,
16including the probable cause hearing and the trial.
17    If the court determines that probable cause does not exist
18to believe that the person is a sexually violent person, the
19court shall dismiss the petition.
20    (d) The Department shall promulgate rules that provide the
21qualifications for persons conducting evaluations under
22subsection (c) of this Section.
23    (e) If the person named in the petition claims or appears
24to be indigent, the court shall, prior to the probable cause
25hearing under subsection (b) of this Section, appoint counsel.
26(Source: P.A. 92-415, eff. 8-17-01; 93-616, eff. 1-1-04;

 

 

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193-970, eff. 8-20-04.)
 
2    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
3becoming law.