Full Text of HB4544 94th General Assembly
HB4544 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB4544
Introduced 1/11/2006, by Rep. Monique D. Davis SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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325 ILCS 2/10 |
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325 ILCS 2/15 |
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325 ILCS 2/20 |
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325 ILCS 2/25 |
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325 ILCS 2/27 |
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325 ILCS 2/30 |
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325 ILCS 2/35 |
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325 ILCS 2/40 |
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325 ILCS 2/50 |
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325 ILCS 2/55 |
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325 ILCS 2/65 |
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Amends the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act. Provides that a parent may relinquish a newborn infant to a church that complies with Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) standards, and requires DCFS to adopt criteria, standards, and procedures for designating and identifying churches as places where a parent may relinquish a newborn infant under the Act. Authorizes these churches to conduct public information campaigns to alert the public about these provisions. Requires annual inspections of churches and a determination by DCFS that a church continues to meet all applicable standards. Provides that only a church designated by DCFS under the Act has the immunity from liability provided for in the Act.
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| AN ACT concerning children.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Sections 10, 15, 20, 25, 27, 30, 35, 40, | 6 |
| 50, 55, and 65 as follows: | 7 |
| (325 ILCS 2/10)
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| Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
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| "Abandon" has the same meaning as in the Abused and | 10 |
| Neglected
Child Reporting Act.
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| "Abused child" has the same meaning as in the Abused and | 12 |
| Neglected
Child Reporting Act.
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| "Child-placing agency" means a licensed public or private | 14 |
| agency
that receives a child for the purpose of placing or | 15 |
| arranging
for the placement of the child in a foster family | 16 |
| home or
other facility for child care, apart from the custody | 17 |
| of the child's
parents.
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| "Department" or "DCFS" means the Illinois Department of | 19 |
| Children and
Family Services.
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| "Emergency medical facility" means a freestanding | 21 |
| emergency center or
trauma center, as defined in the Emergency | 22 |
| Medical Services (EMS) Systems
Act.
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| "Emergency medical professional" includes licensed | 24 |
| physicians, and any
emergency medical technician-basic, | 25 |
| emergency medical
technician-intermediate, emergency medical | 26 |
| technician-paramedic,
trauma nurse specialist, and | 27 |
| pre-hospital RN, as defined in the
Emergency Medical Services | 28 |
| (EMS) Systems Act.
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| "Fire station" means a fire station within the State that | 30 |
| is staffed
with at least one full-time emergency medical | 31 |
| professional.
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| "Hospital" has the same meaning as in the Hospital |
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| Licensing Act.
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| "Legal custody" means the relationship created by a court | 3 |
| order in
the best interest of a newborn infant that imposes on | 4 |
| the infant's custodian
the responsibility of physical | 5 |
| possession of the infant, the duty to
protect, train, and | 6 |
| discipline the infant, and the duty to provide the infant
with | 7 |
| food,
shelter, education, and medical care, except as these are | 8 |
| limited by
parental rights and responsibilities.
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| "Neglected child" has the same meaning as in the Abused and
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| Neglected Child Reporting Act.
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| "Newborn infant" means a child who a licensed physician | 12 |
| reasonably
believes is 72 hours old or less at the time the | 13 |
| child is
initially relinquished to a church, hospital, police | 14 |
| station, fire station, or
emergency
medical facility, and who | 15 |
| is not an abused or a neglected child.
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| "Police station" means a municipal police station or a | 17 |
| county sheriff's
office.
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| "Relinquish" means to bring a newborn infant, who a
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| licensed physician reasonably believes is 72 hours old or less,
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| to a church, hospital, police station, fire station, or | 21 |
| emergency medical facility
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to leave the infant with | 22 |
| personnel of the facility, if the person leaving the
infant | 23 |
| does not express an intent to return for the
infant or states | 24 |
| that he or she will not return for the infant.
In the case of a | 25 |
| mother who gives birth to an infant in a hospital,
the mother's | 26 |
| act of leaving that newborn infant at the
hospital (i) without | 27 |
| expressing an intent to return for the infant or (ii)
stating | 28 |
| that she will not return for the infant is not a | 29 |
| "relinquishment" under
this Act.
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| "Temporary protective custody" means the temporary | 31 |
| placement of
a newborn infant within a hospital or other | 32 |
| medical facility out of the
custody of the infant's parent.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-408, eff. 8-17-01; 92-432, eff. 8-17-01; | 34 |
| 93-820, eff. 7-27-04 .)
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| (325 ILCS 2/15)
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| Sec. 15. Presumptions.
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| (a) There is a presumption that by relinquishing a newborn | 3 |
| infant
in accordance with this Act, the infant's parent
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| consents to the termination of his or her
parental rights with | 5 |
| respect to the infant.
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| (b) There is a presumption that a person relinquishing a | 7 |
| newborn
infant in accordance with this Act:
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| (1) is the newborn infant's biological parent; and
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| (2) either without expressing an intent to return for | 10 |
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infant or expressing an intent not to return for the | 11 |
| infant,
did intend to relinquish the infant to the church,
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| hospital, police station, fire
station, or emergency | 13 |
| medical facility to treat, care for, and
provide for the | 14 |
| infant in accordance with this
Act.
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| (c) A parent of a relinquished newborn infant
may rebut the | 16 |
| presumption set forth in either subsection (a) or
subsection | 17 |
| (b) pursuant to Section 55, at any time before the termination | 18 |
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the parent's
parental rights.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-408, eff. 8-17-01; 92-432, eff. 8-17-01; | 20 |
| 93-820, eff. 7-27-04 .)
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| (325 ILCS 2/20)
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| Sec. 20. Procedures with respect to relinquished newborn
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| infants.
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| (a) Hospitals. Every hospital must accept and
provide all | 25 |
| necessary emergency services and care to a relinquished
newborn | 26 |
| infant, in accordance with this Act.
The hospital shall examine | 27 |
| a relinquished newborn infant and perform tests
that, based on | 28 |
| reasonable medical judgment, are appropriate in evaluating
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| whether the relinquished newborn infant was abused or | 30 |
| neglected.
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| The act of relinquishing a newborn infant serves as implied
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| consent for the hospital and its medical personnel and | 33 |
| physicians on
staff to treat and provide care for the
infant.
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| The hospital shall be deemed to have temporary protective | 35 |
| custody of a
relinquished newborn
infant until the infant is |
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| discharged to the custody of a
child-placing agency or the | 2 |
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| (b) Fire stations and emergency medical facilities. Every | 4 |
| fire
station and emergency medical facility must accept and
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| provide all necessary emergency services and care to a | 6 |
| relinquished
newborn infant, in accordance with this Act.
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| The act of relinquishing a newborn infant serves as implied
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| consent for the fire station or emergency medical facility and
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| its emergency medical professionals to treat and provide care | 10 |
| for the
infant, to the extent that those emergency medical | 11 |
| professionals are trained
to
provide those services.
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| After the relinquishment of a newborn infant to a fire | 13 |
| station or
emergency medical facility, the fire station or | 14 |
| emergency medical
facility's personnel must arrange for the | 15 |
| transportation of the
infant to the nearest hospital as soon as
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| transportation can be arranged.
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| If the parent of a newborn infant returns to reclaim the
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| child within 72 hours after relinquishing the child to a fire | 19 |
| station or
emergency
medical facility, the fire station or | 20 |
| emergency medical facility must inform
the parent of the name | 21 |
| and location of the hospital to which the infant was
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| transported.
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| (c) Police stations. Every police station must accept a | 24 |
| relinquished
newborn
infant, in accordance with this Act. After | 25 |
| the relinquishment of a newborn
infant to a
police station, the | 26 |
| police station must arrange for the transportation of the
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| infant to the
nearest hospital as soon as transportation can be | 28 |
| arranged.
The act of relinquishing a
newborn infant serves as | 29 |
| implied consent for the hospital to which the infant
is
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| transported and that hospital's medical personnel and | 31 |
| physicians on staff to
treat and
provide care for the infant.
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| If the parent of a newborn infant returns to reclaim the | 33 |
| infant within 72
hours after
relinquishing the infant to a | 34 |
| police station,
the police station must inform the parent of | 35 |
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name and location of the hospital to which the infant was | 36 |
| transported.
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| (d) Churches. A church may accept a relinquished newborn | 2 |
| infant only if it has been authorized to do so under this Act | 3 |
| by the Department. After the relinquishment of a newborn
infant | 4 |
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church, the church must arrange for the transportation of | 5 |
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infant to the
nearest hospital as soon as transportation | 6 |
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The act of relinquishing a
newborn infant | 7 |
| serves as implied consent for the hospital to which the infant
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transported and that hospital's medical personnel and | 9 |
| physicians on staff to
treat and
provide care for the infant. | 10 |
| If the parent of a newborn infant returns to reclaim the infant | 11 |
| within 72
hours after
relinquishing the infant to a church,
the | 12 |
| church must inform the parent of the
name and location of the | 13 |
| hospital to which the infant was transported. | 14 |
| The Department shall adopt rules setting forth the | 15 |
| criteria, standards, and procedures for authorizing churches | 16 |
| to accept relinquished newborn infants under this Act and for | 17 |
| designating or identifying those churches as places where a | 18 |
| parent may relinquish a newborn infant under this Act. The | 19 |
| rules shall include the following provisions: | 20 |
| (1) A church must apply to the Department for | 21 |
| authorization to accept relinquished newborn infants. | 22 |
| (2) The authorization shall be valid for no longer than | 23 |
| one year, and a church must apply for renewed authorization | 24 |
| for each succeeding year. | 25 |
| (3) A church shall be subject to inspection by the | 26 |
| Department at the time of an initial or renewed | 27 |
| authorization to verify that it meets the criteria and | 28 |
| standards established by the Department for the acceptance | 29 |
| of relinquished newborn infants. | 30 |
| (4) Only a church that has been authorized by the | 31 |
| Department to accept relinquished newborn infants under | 32 |
| this Act may conduct a public information campaign to alert | 33 |
| the public about the provisions of this subsection.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-408, eff. 8-17-01; 92-432, eff. 8-17-01; | 35 |
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| (325 ILCS 2/25)
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| Sec. 25. Immunity for relinquishing person.
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| (a) The act of relinquishing a newborn infant to a church,
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| hospital, police
station, fire
station, or emergency medical | 5 |
| facility in accordance with this Act
does not, by itself, | 6 |
| constitute a basis for a finding of abuse,
neglect, or | 7 |
| abandonment of the infant pursuant to the laws of this State | 8 |
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does it, by itself, constitute a violation of Section | 9 |
| 12-21.5 or 12-21.6 of the
Criminal Code of 1961.
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| (b) If there is suspected child abuse or neglect
that is | 11 |
| not based solely on the newborn infant's relinquishment to a | 12 |
| church,
hospital, police station, fire station, or emergency | 13 |
| medical facility, the
personnel
of the church, hospital, police | 14 |
| station, fire station, or emergency medical
facility who are
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| mandated reporters under the Abused and Neglected Child | 16 |
| Reporting Act must
report the abuse or neglect pursuant to that | 17 |
| Act.
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| (c) Neither a child protective investigation nor a criminal
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| investigation may be initiated solely because a newborn infant | 20 |
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relinquished pursuant to this Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-408, eff. 8-17-01; 92-432, eff. 8-17-01; | 22 |
| 93-820, eff. 7-27-04 .)
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| (325 ILCS 2/27)
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| Sec. 27. Immunity of facility and personnel.
A hospital, | 25 |
| police station, fire station, or emergency medical facility,
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any personnel of a hospital, police station, fire station, | 27 |
| or emergency
medical facility, are
immune
from criminal or | 28 |
| civil liability for acting in good faith in accordance with
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| this Act. A church and its personnel are
immune
from criminal | 30 |
| or civil liability for acting in good faith in accordance with
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| this Act only if the church has been authorized by the | 32 |
| Department to accept relinquished newborn infants under | 33 |
| subsection (d) of Section 20.
Nothing in this Act limits | 34 |
| liability for negligence for care and
medical treatment.
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| Sec. 30. Anonymity of relinquishing person.
If there is no | 4 |
| evidence of abuse or neglect of a
relinquished newborn infant, | 5 |
| the relinquishing person has the right to
remain anonymous and | 6 |
| to leave the church, hospital, police station, fire station,
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| emergency
medical facility at any time and not be pursued or | 8 |
| followed. Before the
relinquishing person leaves the church,
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| hospital, police station, fire station, or
emergency medical
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| facility, the church, hospital, police station, fire station, | 11 |
| or emergency medical
facility personnel
shall (i) verbally | 12 |
| inform the relinquishing person that by
relinquishing the
child | 13 |
| anonymously, he or she will have to petition the court if he or | 14 |
| she
desires to prevent the termination of parental rights and | 15 |
| regain custody of the
child and (ii) shall offer the | 16 |
| relinquishing person the information
packet
described in | 17 |
| Section 35 of this Act.
However, nothing in this Act shall be | 18 |
| construed as precluding the
relinquishing person from | 19 |
| providing his or her identity or completing the
application | 20 |
| forms for the Illinois Adoption Registry and Medical | 21 |
| Information
Exchange and requesting that the church, hospital, | 22 |
| police station, fire station, or
emergency medical
facility | 23 |
| forward those forms to the Illinois Adoption Registry and | 24 |
| Medical
Information Exchange.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-408, eff. 8-17-01; 92-432, eff. 8-17-01; | 26 |
| 93-820, eff. 7-27-04 .)
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| (325 ILCS 2/35)
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| Sec. 35. Information for relinquishing person. A church,
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| hospital, police
station, fire station,
or emergency
medical | 30 |
| facility that receives a newborn infant relinquished in | 31 |
| accordance with
this
Act must offer an information packet to | 32 |
| the relinquishing person and, if
possible, must clearly inform | 33 |
| the relinquishing person that his or her
acceptance of the
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| information is completely voluntary, that registration with |
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| the Illinois
Adoption Registry and Medical Information | 2 |
| Exchange is voluntary, that the
person will remain anonymous if | 3 |
| he or she completes a Denial of Information
Exchange, and that | 4 |
| the person has the option to provide medical information
only | 5 |
| and still remain anonymous. The
information packet must include | 6 |
| all of
the following:
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| (1) All Illinois Adoption Registry and Medical | 8 |
| Information Exchange
application forms, including the | 9 |
| Medical Information
Exchange Questionnaire and
the web | 10 |
| site address and toll-free phone number of the Registry.
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| (2) Written notice of the following:
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| (A) No sooner than 60 days following the date of | 13 |
| the
initial relinquishment of the infant to a church,
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| hospital, police station,
fire station, or emergency | 15 |
| medical facility, the child-placing agency or the
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| Department will
commence proceedings for the | 17 |
| termination of
parental rights and placement of the | 18 |
| infant for
adoption.
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| (B) Failure of a parent of the
infant to contact | 20 |
| the Department and
petition for the return of custody | 21 |
| of the
infant before termination of parental rights
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| bars any future action asserting legal rights
with | 23 |
| respect to the infant.
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| (3) A resource list of providers of counseling
services | 25 |
| including grief counseling, pregnancy counseling, and
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| counseling regarding adoption and other available options | 27 |
| for placement of the
infant.
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| Upon request, the Department of Public Health shall provide | 29 |
| the
application forms for the Illinois Adoption Registry and | 30 |
| Medical Information
Exchange to churches, hospitals, police | 31 |
| stations, fire stations, and emergency
medical facilities.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-408, eff. 8-17-01; 92-432, eff. 8-17-01; | 33 |
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| Sec. 40. Reporting requirements.
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| (a) Within 12 hours after accepting a newborn infant
from a | 2 |
| relinquishing person or from a church, police station, fire | 3 |
| station, or
emergency medical
facility in accordance with this | 4 |
| Act, a hospital must report to the
Department's State Central | 5 |
| Registry for the purpose of transferring
physical custody of | 6 |
| the infant from the hospital to either a
child-placing agency | 7 |
| or the Department.
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| (b) Within 24 hours after receiving a report under | 9 |
| subsection (a), the
Department must request assistance from law | 10 |
| enforcement
officials to investigate the matter using the | 11 |
| National Crime Information Center
to ensure that the | 12 |
| relinquished newborn infant is not a missing
child.
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| (c) Once a hospital has made a report to the Department
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| under subsection (a), the
Department must
arrange for
a | 15 |
| licensed child-placing agency to accept physical custody of the | 16 |
| relinquished
newborn infant.
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| (d) If a relinquished child is not a newborn infant as | 18 |
| defined
in this Act, the hospital and the Department must | 19 |
| proceed as if the child is an
abused or neglected child.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-408, eff. 8-17-01; 92-432, eff. 8-17-01; | 21 |
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| Sec. 50. Child-placing agency procedures.
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| (a) The Department's
State Central Registry must maintain a | 25 |
| list of licensed child-placing
agencies willing to take legal | 26 |
| custody of newborn infants relinquished
in accordance with this | 27 |
| Act. The
child-placing agencies on the list must be contacted | 28 |
| by the
Department on a rotating basis upon notice from a | 29 |
| hospital
that a newborn infant has been
relinquished in | 30 |
| accordance with this Act.
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| (b) Upon notice from the Department that a newborn infant | 32 |
| has
been relinquished in accordance with this Act, a | 33 |
| child-placing
agency must accept the newborn infant if the | 34 |
| agency has the accommodations to
do
so. The
child-placing | 35 |
| agency must seek an order for legal custody of the
infant upon |
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| its acceptance of the infant.
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| (c) Within 3 business days after assuming physical custody | 3 |
| of the infant,
the child-placing agency shall file a
petition
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| in the division of the
circuit court in which petitions for | 5 |
| adoption would normally be
heard. The petition shall allege | 6 |
| that the newborn infant has been relinquished
in accordance | 7 |
| with this Act and shall state that the child-placing agency
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| intends to place the infant in an adoptive home.
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| (d) If no licensed child-placing agency is able to accept | 10 |
| the
relinquished newborn infant, then the Department must | 11 |
| assume
responsibility for the infant as soon as practicable.
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| (e) A custody order issued under subsection (b) shall | 13 |
| remain in
effect until a final adoption order based on the | 14 |
| relinquished newborn
infant's best interests is issued in | 15 |
| accordance with this Act and the Adoption
Act.
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| (f) When possible, the child-placing agency must place a
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| relinquished newborn infant in a prospective adoptive home.
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| (g) The Department or child-placing agency must initiate | 19 |
| proceedings to (i)
terminate the parental rights of the | 20 |
| relinquished newborn infant's
known or unknown parents, (ii) | 21 |
| appoint a guardian for the infant, and
(iii) obtain consent to | 22 |
| the infant's adoption in accordance with this
Act no sooner | 23 |
| than 60 days following the date of the initial
relinquishment | 24 |
| of the infant to the church, hospital, police station, fire | 25 |
| station,
or
emergency medical facility.
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| (h) Before filing a petition for termination of parental
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| rights, the Department or child-placing agency must do the | 28 |
| following:
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| (1) Search its Putative Father Registry for the purpose | 30 |
| of
determining the identity and location of the putative | 31 |
| father of
the relinquished newborn infant who is, or is | 32 |
| expected to be, the
subject of an adoption proceeding, in | 33 |
| order to provide notice of
the proceeding to the putative | 34 |
| father. At least one search of the
Registry must be | 35 |
| conducted, at least 30 days after the
relinquished newborn | 36 |
| infant's estimated date of birth; earlier
searches may be |
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| conducted, however. Notice to any potential
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| father discovered in a search of the Registry according
to | 3 |
| the estimated age of the relinquished newborn infant must | 4 |
| be
in accordance with Section 12a of the Adoption Act.
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| (2) Verify with law enforcement officials, using the | 6 |
| National Crime
Information Center,
that the relinquished | 7 |
| newborn infant is not a missing child.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-408, eff. 8-17-01; 92-432, eff. 8-17-01; | 9 |
| 93-820, eff. 7-27-04 .)
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| (325 ILCS 2/55)
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| Sec. 55. Petition for return of custody.
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| (a) A parent of a newborn infant relinquished
in accordance | 13 |
| with this Act may petition for the return of custody of
the | 14 |
| infant before the termination of parental
rights with respect | 15 |
| to the infant.
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| (b) A parent of a newborn infant relinquished
in accordance | 17 |
| with this Act may petition for the return of custody of
the | 18 |
| infant by contacting the Department
for the purpose of | 19 |
| obtaining the name of the child-placing agency and then
filing
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| a petition for return of custody in the circuit court in which | 21 |
| the
proceeding for the termination of parental rights is | 22 |
| pending.
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| (c) If a petition for the termination of parental rights | 24 |
| has not
been filed by the Department or the child-placing | 25 |
| agency, the parent of the
relinquished newborn infant must | 26 |
| contact the Department, which must
notify the parent of the | 27 |
| appropriate court in which
the petition for return of custody | 28 |
| must be filed.
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| (d) The circuit court may hold the proceeding for the | 30 |
| termination of
parental rights in abeyance for a period not to | 31 |
| exceed 60 days from the date
that the petition for return of | 32 |
| custody was filed without a
showing of good cause. During that | 33 |
| period:
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| (1) The court shall order genetic testing to establish | 35 |
| maternity
or
paternity, or both.
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| (2) The Department shall conduct a child protective | 2 |
| investigation and home
study to develop recommendations to | 3 |
| the court.
| 4 |
| (3) When indicated as a result of the Department's | 5 |
| investigation and home
study, further proceedings under | 6 |
| the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 as the court
determines | 7 |
| appropriate, may be conducted. However,
relinquishment of
| 8 |
| a newborn infant
in accordance with this Act does not | 9 |
| render the infant abused,
neglected, or abandoned solely | 10 |
| because the newborn infant was relinquished to a church,
| 11 |
| hospital, police station, fire station, or emergency | 12 |
| medical facility in
accordance with this
Act.
| 13 |
| (e) Failure to file a petition for the return of custody of | 14 |
| a
relinquished newborn infant before the termination
of | 15 |
| parental rights
bars any future action asserting legal rights | 16 |
| with respect to the
infant unless the parent's act
of | 17 |
| relinquishment that led to the termination of parental rights
| 18 |
| involved fraud perpetrated against and not stemming from or | 19 |
| involving
the parent. No
action to void or revoke the | 20 |
| termination of parental rights of a parent
of a newborn infant | 21 |
| relinquished in accordance with
this Act, including an action | 22 |
| based on fraud, may be commenced after 12
months after the date | 23 |
| that the newborn infant was initially
relinquished to a church,
| 24 |
| hospital, police station, fire station, or emergency
medical
| 25 |
| facility.
| 26 |
| (Source: P.A. 92-408, eff. 8-17-01; 92-432, eff. 8-17-01; | 27 |
| 93-820, eff. 7-27-04 .)
| 28 |
| (325 ILCS 2/65)
| 29 |
| Sec. 65. Evaluation.
| 30 |
| (a) The Department shall collect and analyze
information | 31 |
| regarding the relinquishment of newborn infants and placement | 32 |
| of
children under this Act. Churches, police
Police stations, | 33 |
| fire stations, emergency medical
facilities, and
medical | 34 |
| professionals accepting and providing services to a newborn | 35 |
| infant
under this Act shall report to the Department data |
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| necessary for the Department
to evaluate and determine the | 2 |
| effect of this Act in the prevention of injury
or death of | 3 |
| newborn infants. Child-placing agencies shall report to the
| 4 |
| Department data necessary to evaluate and determine the | 5 |
| effectiveness of these
agencies in providing child protective | 6 |
| and child welfare services to newborn
infants relinquished | 7 |
| under this Act.
| 8 |
| (b) The information collected shall include,
but need not | 9 |
| be limited to: the number of newborn infants relinquished; the
| 10 |
| services provided to relinquished newborn infants; the outcome
| 11 |
| of care for the relinquished newborn infants; the number and | 12 |
| disposition of
cases of relinquished newborn infants subject to | 13 |
| placement; the number of
children accepted and served by | 14 |
| child-placing agencies; and the services
provided by | 15 |
| child-placing agencies and the disposition of the cases of the
| 16 |
| children placed under this Act.
| 17 |
| (c) The Department shall submit a report by
January 1, | 18 |
| 2002, and on January 1 of each
year thereafter, to the Governor | 19 |
| and General Assembly regarding the prevention
of injury or | 20 |
| death of newborn infants and the effect of placements of | 21 |
| children
under this Act. The report shall include, but need not | 22 |
| be limited to, a
summary of
collected data, an analysis of the | 23 |
| data and conclusions regarding the Act's
effectiveness, a | 24 |
| determination whether the purposes of the Act are being
| 25 |
| achieved,
and recommendations for changes that may be | 26 |
| considered necessary to improve the
administration and | 27 |
| enforcement of this Act.
| 28 |
| (Source: P.A. 92-408, eff. 8-17-01; 92-432, eff. 8-17-01; | 29 |
| 93-820, eff. 7-27-04 .)
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