Full Text of HB4090 99th General Assembly
HB4090 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2015 and 2016 HB4090 Introduced , by Rep. Anna Moeller SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 740 ILCS 110/11 | from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 811 | 740 ILCS 110/12.1 | from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 812.1 | 740 ILCS 110/12.2 | from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 812.2 |
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Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act. Provides that records may be disclosed to law enforcement agencies in connection with the investigation or recovery of a person who has left a mental health or developmental disability facility or the custody of the Department of Human Services without being duly discharged or being free to do so. Provides that an employee of the Department of Human Services may disclose specified information to the appropriate law enforcement and investigating agencies. In a Section concerning the escape of a recipient, changes references to "facility" to "custody of the Department of Human Services". Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning civil law.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental | 5 | | Disabilities Confidentiality Act is amended by changing | 6 | | Sections 11, 12.1, and 12.2 as follows:
| 7 | | (740 ILCS 110/11) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 811)
| 8 | | Sec. 11. Disclosure of records and communications. Records | 9 | | and
communications may be disclosed:
| 10 | | (i) in accordance with the provisions of the
Abused and | 11 | | Neglected Child Reporting Act, subsection (u) of Section 5 | 12 | | of the Children and Family Services Act, or Section 7.4 of | 13 | | the Child Care Act of 1969;
| 14 | | (ii) when, and to the extent, a
therapist, in his or | 15 | | her sole discretion, determines that disclosure is
| 16 | | necessary to initiate or continue civil commitment or | 17 | | involuntary treatment proceedings under the laws
of this | 18 | | State or to otherwise protect the recipient or other person | 19 | | against a
clear, imminent risk of serious physical or | 20 | | mental injury or disease or death
being inflicted upon the | 21 | | recipient or by the recipient on himself or another;
| 22 | | (iii) when, and to the extent disclosure is, in the | 23 | | sole discretion of the
therapist, necessary to the |
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| 1 | | provision of emergency medical care to a recipient
who is | 2 | | unable to assert or waive his or her rights hereunder;
| 3 | | (iv) when
disclosure is necessary to collect sums or | 4 | | receive third
party payment representing charges for | 5 | | mental health or developmental
disabilities services | 6 | | provided by a therapist or agency to a recipient
under | 7 | | Chapter V of the Mental Health and Developmental | 8 | | Disabilities Code or to
transfer debts under the | 9 | | Uncollected State Claims Act; however, disclosure
shall be | 10 | | limited to information needed to pursue collection, and the
| 11 | | information so disclosed shall not be used for any other | 12 | | purposes nor shall it
be redisclosed except in connection | 13 | | with collection activities;
| 14 | | (v) when
requested by a family member, the Department | 15 | | of Human Services may assist in
the location of the | 16 | | interment site of a deceased recipient who is interred in a
| 17 | | cemetery established under Section 26 of the Mental Health | 18 | | and
Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act;
| 19 | | (vi) in judicial proceedings
under Article VIII of | 20 | | Chapter III and Article V of Chapter IV of the Mental
| 21 | | Health and Developmental Disabilities Code and proceedings | 22 | | and investigations
preliminary thereto, to the State's | 23 | | Attorney for the county or residence of a
person who is the | 24 | | subject of such proceedings, or in which the person is | 25 | | found,
or in which the facility is located, to the attorney | 26 | | representing the petitioner in the judicial proceedings, |
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| 1 | | to the attorney representing the recipient
in the judicial | 2 | | proceedings, to any person or agency providing mental | 3 | | health
services that are the subject of the proceedings and | 4 | | to that person's or
agency's attorney, to any court | 5 | | personnel, including but not limited to judges
and circuit | 6 | | court clerks, and to a guardian ad litem if one has been | 7 | | appointed
by the court. Information disclosed under this | 8 | | subsection shall not be utilized
for any other purpose nor | 9 | | be redisclosed except in connection with the
proceedings or | 10 | | investigations. Copies of any records provided to counsel | 11 | | for a petitioner shall be deleted or destroyed at the end | 12 | | of the proceedings and counsel for petitioner shall certify | 13 | | to the court in writing that he or she has done so. At the | 14 | | request of a recipient or his or her counsel, the court | 15 | | shall issue a protective order insuring the | 16 | | confidentiality of any records or communications provided | 17 | | to counsel for a petitioner;
| 18 | | (vii) when, and to the extent disclosure is
necessary | 19 | | to comply with the requirements of the Census Bureau in | 20 | | taking the
federal Decennial Census;
| 21 | | (viii) when, and to the extent, in the
therapist's sole | 22 | | discretion, disclosure is necessary to warn or protect a
| 23 | | specific individual against whom a recipient has made a | 24 | | specific threat of
violence where there exists a | 25 | | therapist-recipient relationship or a special
| 26 | | recipient-individual relationship;
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| 1 | | (ix) in accordance with the Sex Offender
Registration | 2 | | Act;
| 3 | | (x) in accordance with the Rights of Crime Victims and
| 4 | | Witnesses Act; | 5 | | (xi) in accordance with Section 6 of the Abused and | 6 | | Neglected Long Term Care Facility Residents Reporting Act; | 7 | | (xii) in accordance with Section 55 of the Abuse of | 8 | | Adults with Disabilities Intervention Act; and
| 9 | | (xiii) to an HIE as specifically allowed under this Act | 10 | | for HIE purposes and in accordance with any applicable | 11 | | requirements of the HIE ; and . | 12 | | (xiv) to a law enforcement agency in connection with | 13 | | the investigation or recovery of a person who has left a | 14 | | mental health or developmental disability facility as | 15 | | defined in Section 1-107 or 1-114 of the Mental Health and | 16 | | Developmental Disabilities Code or the custody of the | 17 | | Department of Human Services without being duly discharged | 18 | | or being free to do so. | 19 | | Any person, institution, or agency, under
this Act, | 20 | | participating in good faith in the making of a report under the
| 21 | | Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act or in the disclosure | 22 | | of records and
communications under this Section, shall have | 23 | | immunity from any liability,
civil, criminal or otherwise, that | 24 | | might result by reason of such action. For
the purpose of any | 25 | | proceeding, civil or criminal, arising out of a report or
| 26 | | disclosure under this Section, the good faith of any person, |
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| 1 | | institution, or
agency so reporting or disclosing shall be | 2 | | presumed.
| 3 | | (Source: P.A. 97-333, eff. 8-12-11; 97-375, eff. 8-15-11; | 4 | | 98-378, eff. 8-16-13.)
| 5 | | (740 ILCS 110/12.1) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 812.1)
| 6 | | Sec. 12.1.
A facility director or Department of Human | 7 | | Services employee who has reason to believe that a violation
of | 8 | | criminal law or other serious incident has occurred within a | 9 | | mental
health or developmental disability facility or while | 10 | | transporting a patient to or from a mental health or | 11 | | developmental disability facility shall report that violation | 12 | | or
incident and the identity of individuals with personal | 13 | | knowledge of the
facts related to the violation or incident to | 14 | | the appropriate law
enforcement and investigating agencies.
| 15 | | In the course of any investigation conducted pursuant to a | 16 | | report made
under this Section, any person with personal | 17 | | knowledge of the incident or
the circumstances surrounding the | 18 | | incident shall disclose that information
to the individuals | 19 | | conducting the investigation, except that
information | 20 | | regarding a recipient of services shall be limited solely to | 21 | | identifying information as defined in Section 12.2 of this Act | 22 | | as well as
information relating to the factual circumstances of | 23 | | the incident.
| 24 | | (Source: P.A. 86-1417.)
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| 1 | | (740 ILCS 110/12.2) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 812.2)
| 2 | | Sec. 12.2.
(a) When a recipient who has been judicially or | 3 | | involuntarily
admitted, or is a forensic recipient admitted to | 4 | | a developmental disability
or mental health facility, as | 5 | | defined in Section 1-107 or 1-114 of the
Mental Health and | 6 | | Developmental Disabilities Code, is on an unauthorized
absence | 7 | | or otherwise has left the the custody of the Department of | 8 | | Human Services facility without being discharged or
being free | 9 | | to do so, the facility director shall immediately furnish and
| 10 | | disclose to the appropriate local law enforcement agency | 11 | | identifying
information, as defined in this Section, and all | 12 | | further information
unrelated to the diagnosis, treatment or | 13 | | evaluation of the recipient's
mental or physical health that | 14 | | would aid the law enforcement agency in recovering
locating and | 15 | | apprehending the recipient and returning him or her to custody | 16 | | the facility . When a forensic recipient is on an unauthorized | 17 | | absence or otherwise has left the the custody of the Department | 18 | | facility without being discharged or being free to do so, the | 19 | | facility director, or designee, of a mental health facility or | 20 | | developmental facility operated by the Department shall also | 21 | | immediately notify, in like manner, the Department of State | 22 | | Police.
| 23 | | (b) If a law enforcement agency requests information from a
| 24 | | developmental disability or mental health facility, as defined | 25 | | in Section
1-107 or 1-114 of the Mental Health and | 26 | | Developmental Disabilities Code,
relating to a recipient who |
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| 1 | | has been admitted to the facility
and for whom a missing person | 2 | | report has been filed with a law enforcement
agency, the | 3 | | facility director shall, except in the case of a voluntary
| 4 | | recipient wherein the recipient's permission in writing must | 5 | | first be
obtained, furnish and disclose to the law enforcement | 6 | | agency identifying
information as is necessary to confirm or | 7 | | deny whether that person is, or
has been since the missing | 8 | | person report was filed, a resident of that
facility. The | 9 | | facility director shall notify the law enforcement agency if
| 10 | | the missing person is admitted after the request. Any person | 11 | | participating
in good faith in the disclosure of information in | 12 | | accordance with this
provision shall have immunity from any | 13 | | liability, civil, criminal, or
otherwise, if the information is | 14 | | disclosed relying upon the representation
of an officer of a | 15 | | law enforcement agency that a missing person report has
been | 16 | | filed.
| 17 | | (c) Upon the request of a law enforcement agency in | 18 | | connection with the
investigation of a particular felony or sex | 19 | | offense, when the investigation
case file number is furnished | 20 | | by the law enforcement agency, a facility
director shall | 21 | | immediately disclose to that law enforcement agency
| 22 | | identifying information on any forensic recipient who is | 23 | | admitted to
a developmental disability or mental health | 24 | | facility, as defined in Section
1-107 or 1-114 of the Mental | 25 | | Health and Developmental Disabilities Code,
who was or may have | 26 | | been away from the facility at or about the time of the
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| 1 | | commission of a particular felony or sex offense, and: (1) | 2 | | whose
description, clothing, or both reasonably match the | 3 | | physical description of
any person allegedly involved in that | 4 | | particular felony or sex offense; or
(2) whose past modus | 5 | | operandi matches the modus operandi of that particular
felony | 6 | | or sex offense.
| 7 | | (d) For the purposes of this Section and Section 12.1, "law
| 8 | | enforcement agency" means an agency of the State or unit of | 9 | | local
government that is vested by law or ordinance with the | 10 | | duty to maintain
public order and to enforce criminal laws or | 11 | | ordinances, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the Central | 12 | | Intelligence Agency, and the United
States Secret Service.
| 13 | | (e) For the purpose of this Section, "identifying | 14 | | information" means
the name, address, age, and a physical | 15 | | description, including clothing,
of the recipient of services, | 16 | | the names and addresses of the
recipient's nearest known | 17 | | relatives, where the recipient was known to have been
during | 18 | | any past unauthorized absences from a facility, whether the
| 19 | | recipient may be suicidal, and the condition of the recipient's | 20 | | physical
health as it relates to exposure to the weather. | 21 | | Except as provided in
Section 11, in no case shall the facility | 22 | | director disclose to the law
enforcement agency any information | 23 | | relating to the diagnosis, treatment, or
evaluation of the | 24 | | recipient's mental or physical health, unless the
disclosure is | 25 | | deemed necessary by the facility director to insure the
safety | 26 | | of the investigating officers or general public.
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| 1 | | (f) For the purpose of this Section, "forensic recipient" | 2 | | means a
recipient who is placed in a developmental disability | 3 | | facility or mental
health facility, as defined in Section 1-107 | 4 | | or 1-114 of the Mental Health
and Developmental Disabilities | 5 | | Code, pursuant to Article 104 of the Code of
Criminal Procedure | 6 | | of 1963 or Sections 3-8-5, 3-10-5 or 5-2-4 of the Unified Code
| 7 | | of Corrections.
| 8 | | (Source: P.A. 98-756, eff. 7-16-14.)
| 9 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 10 | | becoming law.
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