(750 ILCS 62/70)
    Sec. 70. Case eligible for review by regional review team. A case eligible for review shall include a fatality or near-fatality that occurred within the geographic boundaries of the judicial circuit covered by the regional review team and a qualifying relationship.
    (a) A fatality or near-fatality includes at least one of the following:
        (1) a homicide, as defined in Article 9 of the
    
Criminal Code of 2012 in which:
            (A) the offender causes the death of the victim,
        
the deceased, or others; or
            (B) the survivor causes the death of the
        
offender, the deceased, or others;
        (2) a suicide or attempted suicide of the offender;
        (3) a suicide of the victim;
        (4) a suicide attempt of the survivor;
        (5) a familicide in which the offender causes the
    
death of the victim and other members of the victim's family including, but not limited to, minor or adult children and parents;
        (6) the near-fatality of a survivor caused by the
    
offender;
        (7) the near-fatality of an offender caused by the
    
survivor; or
        (8) any other case involving domestic violence if a
    
majority of the regional review team vote that a review of the case will advance the purposes of this Act.
    (b) A qualifying relationship between the offender and the victim or survivor shall include instances or a history of domestic violence perpetrated by the offender against the victim or survivor and at least one of the following circumstances:
        (1) the offender and the victim or survivor:
            (A) resided together or shared a common dwelling
        
at any time;
            (B) have or are alleged to have a child in
        
common; or
            (C) are or were engaged, married, divorced,
        
separated, or had a dating or romantic relationship, regardless of whether they had sexual relations;
        (2) the offender stalked the victim or survivor as
    
described in Section 12-7.3 of the Criminal Code of 2012;
        (3) the victim or survivor filed for an order of
    
protection against the offender under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 or Section 112A-2.5 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963;
        (4) the victim or survivor filed for a civil no
    
contact order against the offender under the Civil No Contact Order Act or Section 112A-14.5 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963;
        (5) the victim or survivor filed for a stalking no
    
contact order against the offender under the Stalking No Contact Order Act or Section 112A-2.5 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963;
        (6) the offender violated an order of protection,
    
civil no contact order, or stalking no contact order obtained by the victim or survivor;
        (7) the deceased resided in the same household as,
    
was present at the workplace of, was in the proximity of, or was related by blood or affinity to a victim or survivor;
        (8) the deceased was a law enforcement officer,
    
emergency medical technician, or other responder to a domestic violence incident between the offender and the victim or survivor; or
        (9) a relationship between the offender and the
    
victim, survivor, or deceased exists that a majority of the regional review team votes warrants review of the case to advance the purposes of this Act.
    (c) A case eligible for review does not require criminal charges or a conviction.
    (d) Any criminal investigation, civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding, and appeals shall be complete for a case to be eligible for review.
(Source: P.A. 102-520, eff. 8-20-21.)