HB5076 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB5076

Introduced , by Rep. Patricia R. Bellock

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 505/39.3

Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to place a locked suggestion box in each group home, shelter, and transitional living arrangement that accepts youth in care for placement by the Department.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended by changing Section 39.3 as follows:

(20 ILCS 505/39.3)

Sec. 39.3. Suggestion boxes. The Department must place in each residential treatment center, group home, shelter, and transitional living arrangement that accepts youth in care for placement by the Department a locked suggestion box into which residents may place comments and concerns to be addressed by the Department. Only employees of the Department shall have access to the contents of the locked suggestion boxes. An employee of the Department must check the locked suggestion boxes at least once per week.

(Source: P.A. 99-342, eff. 8-11-15; 100-159, eff. 8-18-17.)