SB1245sam002 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Terry Link

Filed: 3/23/2007

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1245

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1245, AS AMENDED, by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing Sections 4.3 and 70 as follows:

(20 ILCS 1705/4.3) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-4.3)

Sec. 4.3. Site visits and inspections.

(a) (Blank).

(b) The Department shall establish a system of regular and ongoing annual on-site inspections, including unannounced visits, of each facility under its jurisdiction. The inspections shall be conducted by the Department's central office to:

(1) Determine facility compliance with Department policies and procedures;

(2) Determine facility compliance with audit recommendations;

(3) Evaluate facility compliance with applicable federal standards;

(4) Review and follow up on complaints made by community mental health agencies and advocates, and on findings of the Human Rights Authority division of the Guardianship and Advocacy Commission; and

(5) Review administrative and management problems identified by other sources; and .

(6) Identify and prevent abuse and neglect.

(Source: P.A. 92-111, eff. 1-1-02.)

(20 ILCS 1705/70)

Sec. 70. Monitoring by closed circuit television. The Department of Human Services as successor to the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities may install closed circuit televisions in quiet rooms in institutions supervised or operated by the Department to monitor patients in those quiet rooms. The Department shall study current and potential uses of closed circuit television monitoring and recording within institutions supervised or operated by the Department for the purpose of preventing and identifying abuse and neglect, and shall report to the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2008, with recommendations on how to increase the use of closed circuit television monitoring and recording for purposes of preventing and identifying abuse and neglect. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to supersede or interfere with any current provisions in the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code concerning the observation and monitoring of patients.

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