Full Text of SB2057 96th General Assembly
SB2057sam002 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. Edward D. Maloney
Filed: 3/10/2009
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2057
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2057 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | 5 |
| Illinois Premise Alert Program (PAP) Act. | 6 |
| Section 5. Purpose. It is the policy of the State of | 7 |
| Illinois to ensure that consistently high levels of public | 8 |
| safety services are available to all members of the State, | 9 |
| including people who may require special consideration in
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| to access services. This program shall seek to afford people | 11 |
| with disabilities or special needs or both the same access to | 12 |
| public safety services provided to all citizens. It is the | 13 |
| intent of this program to offer guidance and direction to | 14 |
| public safety workers in responding to and assisting those | 15 |
| people with special needs or disabilities or both with whom | 16 |
| they will have contact in the
performance of their duties and |
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| responsibilities. The ability to effectively deal with special | 2 |
| needs individuals is enhanced with knowledge or information. | 3 |
| The ability to identify special needs individuals, their places | 4 |
| of employment, educational facilities, and residences are | 5 |
| valuable resources in instances when or if an emergency | 6 |
| response by law enforcement or fire protection personnel or | 7 |
| both are needed.
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| Section 10. Definitions. As used in this Act: | 9 |
| "Disability" means an individual's physical or mental | 10 |
| impairment that
substantially limits one or more of the major | 11 |
| life activities; a record of such impairment; or when the | 12 |
| individual is regarded as having such an impairment. | 13 |
| "Special needs individuals" means those individuals who | 14 |
| have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, | 15 |
| developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and who also | 16 |
| require health and related services of a type or amount beyond | 17 |
| that required by individuals generally. | 18 |
| "Public safety agency" means a functional division of a | 19 |
| public agency that provides firefighting, police, medical, or | 20 |
| other emergency services. | 21 |
| "Computer aided dispatch" or "CAD" means a database | 22 |
| maintained by the public safety agency or public safety | 23 |
| answering point used in conjunction with 9-1-1 caller data. | 24 |
| "Premise Alert Program" or "PAP" means a computer aided | 25 |
| dispatch database of individuals with special needs maintained |
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| by public safety agencies.
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| Section 15. Reporting of Special Needs Individuals.
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| (a) Public safety agencies shall make reasonable efforts to | 4 |
| publicize the Premise Alert Program (PAP) database. Means of | 5 |
| publicizing the database include, but are not limited to, | 6 |
| pamphlets and websites. | 7 |
| (b) Families, caregivers, or the individuals with | 8 |
| disabilities or special needs may contact their local law | 9 |
| enforcement agency or fire department or fire protection | 10 |
| district. | 11 |
| (c) Public safety workers are to be cognitive of special | 12 |
| needs individuals they may come across when they respond to | 13 |
| calls. If workers are able to identify individuals who have | 14 |
| special needs, they shall try to ascertain as specifically as | 15 |
| possible what that special need might be. The public safety | 16 |
| worker should attempt to verify the special need as provided in | 17 |
| item (2) of subsection (d). | 18 |
| (d) The disabled individual's name, date of birth, phone | 19 |
| number, and
residential address or place of employment should | 20 |
| also be obtained
for possible entry into the PAP database. | 21 |
| (1) Whenever possible, it is preferable that written | 22 |
| permission is
obtained from a parent, guardian, family | 23 |
| member, or caregiver
of the individual themselves prior to | 24 |
| being entered into the
PAP database. | 25 |
| (2) No individual may be entered into a PAP
database |
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| unless the special need has been verified.
Acceptable means | 2 |
| of verifying a special need for purposes
of this program | 3 |
| shall include statements by: | 4 |
| (A) the individual, | 5 |
| (B) family members, | 6 |
| (C) friends, | 7 |
| (D) caregivers, or | 8 |
| (E) medical personnel familiar with the | 9 |
| individual. | 10 |
| (e) For public safety agencies that share the same CAD | 11 |
| database, information collected by one agency serviced by the | 12 |
| CAD database is to be disseminated to all agencies utilizing | 13 |
| that database. | 14 |
| (f) Information received at an incorrect public safety | 15 |
| agency shall be accepted and forwarded to the correct agency as | 16 |
| soon as possible.
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| Section 20. Provision of information to the field.
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| special needs information comes up in a CAD database, the | 19 |
| telecommunicator shall relay that information to responding | 20 |
| personnel.
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| Section 25. Confidentiality.
The information gathered as | 22 |
| part of PAP shall remain strictly confidential. The information | 23 |
| shall be
used only to provide assistance to emergency medical | 24 |
| and police
responders. No public safety worker shall knowingly |
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| violate this confidentiality clause. Citizens who believe | 2 |
| their health privacy rights have been violated may file a | 3 |
| complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | 4 |
| (DHHS) via the Office of Civil Rights (OCR).
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| Section 30. Liability.
Nothing in this Act shall be | 6 |
| construed to create a duty of care or ground of liability for | 7 |
| injury to persons or property.
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| Section 35. Citizen advisory.
Citizens electing to | 9 |
| participate in PAP must be advised that the provision of | 10 |
| special needs information will not result in preferential | 11 |
| treatment.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 13 |
| becoming law.".
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