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91_HB1863
LRB9105186RCdv
1 AN ACT to amend the Unified Code of Corrections by
2 changing Section 3-7-7.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
6 changing Section 3-7-7 as follows:
7 (730 ILCS 5/3-7-7) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-7-7)
8 Sec. 3-7-7. The Department shall establish rules
9 governing the provision of mental health services to
10 committed persons. Such rules shall provide, among other
11 matters, that a committed person who is diagnosed as
12 suffering from a mental illness or developmental disability
13 shall have access to treatment as determined necessary by a
14 qualified mental health or developmental disability
15 professional of the Department, and that mental health
16 records be disclosed only for purposes authorized by
17 Department rule or the Unified Code of Corrections or as
18 otherwise authorized by law. A committed person in a maximum
19 security facility of the Department who is receiving mental
20 health services may be handcuffed.
21 (Source: P.A. 86-1403.)